John B. King Jr.

He said in the inaugural address that one of the things that concerned him most was the way confidence was draining out of the system, not only the financial system but trust in government.

If I were here a couple of years ago, say, you were 10 or 11, 12, and I said, you know, who do you most admire, who's your role model, who do you say I want to be like that? ... And if I ask you today, what's your answer? Who do you most…

You spent two years traveling the country saying President Bush was incompetent when it came to domestic leadership, had a debacle of a war in Iraq and has hurt our image around the world.

One way you build trust is by getting things done.

If he can do that, those poll numbers will move -- and David's right -- it's about leadership.

When Obama is the president every president becomes the vessel for economic anxiety.

Many other Republicans from other parts of the country think the best move for them politically, at least early on, is to try to work with Obama, not reflectively say they will be against him.

Democrats are coming to Barack Obama, coming with him to Washington but those Democrats are up in six years and if Barack Obama tries to go too far to the left, Anderson, they will say don't do that. That will put my seat at risk.

He gets a mandate to change Washington; he gets a mandate to deal with the economy. He does not get a mandate to be a liberal.

People in these suburbs, Hillary Clinton voters, women voters who they needed, the Republicans needed and Independents who they needed are saying, I don't think she's ready. And they're not holding it against Sarah Palin; they're holding…

The Democrats have more money and way more money than the Republicans. But it's not just the candidate. Labor unions are spending a lot of money, too.

Without a doubt. Look, the Democrats have lost close elections four years ago and eight years ago. One of the reasons they thought is that they didn't have enough money at the end and the Republicans had more.

She's the one who gave the interviews and answered the questions, so she has to be held accountable for her answers just as McCain has to be held accountable for his campaign.

Barack Obama is left of John Kerry; he is left of Michael Dukakis. You could run a classic liberal taxes-bent campaign against him.

His support is soft in some places. However, if you travel into those red states of Indiana, North Carolina, if you go into Virginia and you see by how much Barack Obama is outspending John McCain on television, without a doubt it helps.

That's one of the states where increased African-American turnout could mean coat tails beyond Barack Obama who probably won't win Georgia but could influence Congressional races in that state.

If the independents continue to break the way they are breaking today and the way they were breaking coming into this debate, the math simply doesn't add up.

If you think they give a damn about William Ayers or that Keating 5 or any of this stuff, they don't.

The economic news has tilted the map steadily and significantly in Obama's favor, and McCain is running out of time to change it.

If you look at Sarah Palin's job as reinvigorating the Republican base... she met the test and exceeded the test without a doubt.

In the electoral map, you need 270 to win. We now have Barack Obama leading in states with 250 electoral votes, John McCain trailing with 189.

What Republicans around the country would like is a single, consistent message from John McCain.

Nobody brings this up. They care about the economy, period.

This is a domestic crisis, the biggest crisis in this country since 9/11 is unfolding seven weeks from the presidential election.

She has changed the dynamic of the game. And she has frustrated the Democrats.