Political Quotes

“Well, I think I have been, on one level, trying not to overreact, but I also think there is a little danger of underreacting. And I have been talking about this a little bit with my brother, who is a professor with an expertise in former Soviet Union countries, Kazakhstan in particular. And so in this town--and you know this, Chris--in this town, the worst thing is to be overreacting, like that is just very not cool for the cocktail party and pundit circuit. Everything is always going to be fine, and if you are alarmed, you are shrill; that means you are not savvy. And the savvy thing is always that this will land fine. And I feel like we are sleepwalking into a very dangerous place. And so as I think of my theory of change, just mine, I don't presume to know exactly what we should do, all of us, I know in the legislative context, we have got to do a couple of things: We have got to find opportunities--we only have 47 of us, so we have to find opportunities to find three or four Republicans. And I have had some very constructive conversations with Republican appropriators who are super uncomfortable with what is going on. Now, they might not be quite ready to go public, but they are certainly trying to figure out how they are going to exert their authorities and reestablish that it is coequal branches here. So part of our strategy has to include: Find Republican support where we can.…”