Polls go up and down, but I felt very good about John Kerry's performance Thursday night.

Will the nice guy come out? Will the attack dog come out?

It was very difficult for them to prepare for this debate, the Edwards campaign, simply because of that.

It's a test for George Bush. It's a test for whether this president is finally going to be straight and come clean with the American people about what's happening in Iraq.

It's a test for whether this president is finally going to be straight and come clean with the American people about what's happening in Iraq.

You want to have a framework that the candidate can go back to, and you want to practice pivoting.

You want to be careful (UNINTELLIGIBLE) have bad reaction shots. You know the principle in a debate, it's better to counterpunch than it is to punch.

George w. Bush needs to come back to Planet Earth and get out of Fantasyland, that's what...

George w. Bush needs to come back to Planet Earth and get out of Fantasyland, that's what...

It is the height of absurdity for Dick Cheney, a chief architect of the Iraq quagmire, to talk about the leadership needed to fix the mess in Iraq that he created.

Over 1,000 Americans have lost their lives. Americans are being beheaded. Iraq is a mess. And they think this is a joke.

When John Kerry is President of the United States, we will find Al Qaeda where they are and crush them before they can do damage to the American people.

Let me just say this in the simplest possible terms.

It's hard to see how he moves a lot of votes in rural areas.

Every single one of those presidents created jobs until this president. Because they can't defend this record. It's impossible. You can't defend what they've done.

I think Cheney's scare tactics today crossed the line. This is un-American.

Their answer to everything is to try to dig themselves out of this quagmire they got in Iraq and not pay attention to things that are happening right here in the United States of America.

I think they had a bad August. I think that they know that and they're making changes at the campaign.