"I think that the Democrats, the growling that they're doing against the war, does -- it puts pressure on the White House."
"There's such a thing now as Washington time, the political timetables in Washington, and Baghdad time."
"General Petraeus is on a different time scale. He probably does need more time."
"The president can now have a good-cop/bad-cop routine with the Maliki government."
"But I will tell you something. I think they are -- in a very odd way, despite all their disarray -- and that sort of goes with being Democrats, I suppose -- they're actually giving a gift to the presi..."
"It's unlikely that they can actually get a bill passed, -- Anderson. Even if they get it passed, the president is going to veto it. And they don't have the override votes."
"It's unlikely they will get through it. But, for the first time, there may be a window."
"But, when you go after a fly with a sledgehammer, you can get the fly, but you often cause a lot of ruckus."
"I think that John Edwards essentially held people's coats and let them fight it out, and he does emerge unscathed and -- and a little bit ahead."
"the alliance, you know, it would be cracking. And -- and his closest friend, his -- his strongest ally throughout this war would be moving in a different direction."
"That's obviously a big, big development, a big story, both militarily and -- and politically."
"It's weird and botched."
"There are ominous signs that we're stepping up the pressure and that they're stepping up the pressure simultaneously."
"It added to the sense that we were headed toward a confrontation and people were looking for ways to spark this."
"I think, Anderson, that we have known sort of through whispers and rumors that the vice president was very heavily involved. This is the first direct evidence of the vice president's extraordinary inv..."
"So this is building, legally and politically, this is really building."
"It's hard for a law and order administration too to say, well, if somebody else does it, they have to go to jail, but if it's one of ours, they don't, you know, they don't have to pay a price."
"It is time for Congress, the administration, and the lending industry to face up to the fact that predatory and irresponsible lending practices are creating a major crisis for millions of American hom..."
