These are the -- the chatter out of these debates has a big impact.

It is, but yes, there -- it was a missed opportunity for the other Democrats. She was -- she was bleeding coming into this debate. And she stopped the bleeding last night.

I think for John Edwards, the danger right now is that this could increasingly become a two-person race.

Can they do it? Yes, they still have time to do it. It's going to be tough, but they can do it.

I think the hard question is can the winner govern? Can the winner lead? That's going to be really, really tough.

the next president has to deal with the environment. And you've got to get a comprehensive energy and environmental bill.

the challenges facing this next president are enormous just in terms of trying to bring people together.

what we're looking for now is out of can, out of all this welter of conversation, can someone emerge who has the integrity of the judgment and the capacity to bring us together?

Nobody wants to lose the war, but the question is, is there shared responsibility for this war?

The heart of this issue is not -- and this is what the Democrats have to make clear, that it's not whether the country is going to be strong against terrorism and fight it effectively. The question is whether we're going to use torture…

Romney, originally, by saying, I'm the real Republican, was actually going after Giuliani. That was a veiled attack against Giuliani, the front-runner, you know, the fragile front-runner.

But McCain, in addition to the dislike, also needs to knock off Romney in order to become number two in this race.