Well, I think it was the only issue in which he could score a victory immediately.
If you're a senator you represent a whole state and you have many more conflicting voices.
I think you have good news for the president in the poll, but on exactly the point you cite, sending troops to the borde...
I think he's got to really now plant a flag and say: Here's what I'm for. Here's what I want -- and, then, very importan...
you can't govern the country. You can't -- you can't get the big things done.
it's not a governing strategy.
A lot depends on how -- whether there's any drama to it, whether there's any news in it. If he is simply endorsing a leg...
Is he -- you know, his strategy for recovery has been to rally his base, to rally the conservative base.
the country's going to be -- it will help with conservatives. It will get them -- it will get them modestly up. But -- b...
I do believe that Anderson and the way he gains political power and gains political capital, rebuilds his stock is to be...
I'm afraid that there are a lot of democrats who now believe it's better to have an issue than to have a bill.
That's what happened when Franklin Roosevelt came in. The country was terribly depressed. And he came in and, with a sin...
I think it's a natural response to what happened with the shooting, and also now with the gas prices being where they we...
that's the kind of rancid politics that I think just turns everybody off, and it does make it hard to plan for the futur...
Well, it is true that, you know, with the coming of what's called -- now called the permanent campaign, and that is, as ...
It's harder. It's tougher to sustain. It's tougher to put a plan out there that will get support.
The best leaders are the ones, historically, who have looked ahead, you know, looked over the horizon.
one of the big judgments we're going to make in the upcoming presidential campaign is, are people going to campaign on t...