Paul Begala

I think it helps. It's a close election. He's beloved by the Democratic base, but also probably more important is a lot of swing voters who think very highly of him.

I think it fits into a pattern that Kerry's trying to (UNINTELLIGIBLE). And President Bush denying reality.

He's not a racist at all, but that was an outrageous statement.

How would you describe that strategy to say suppress the Detroit vote?

One of his campaign officials in Michigan, said for the record, that the Bush strategy in Michigan was to 'Suppress the Detroit vote.'

This is a real problem, half the people who need flu shots aren't going to be able to get them because the president dropped the ball.

President Bush is playing to fear on issues of terrorism and 9/11.

I think people are scared. We only have half the vaccine we need, and we're getting reports that the Bush administration did in fact drop the ball.

If you don't like it, you need to vote against him. If you do, you need to vote for him.

It's George W. Bush who took the largest surplus in history and took into the largest deficit in history.

Now, he promised us he'd create 6 million new jobs. He's 7 million jobs short of that.

The problem is, we do have an incumbent, and he has a four-year record, and it's that record that's on trial.

The president has gotten us into this quagmire by misleading us. He told it was a grave and growing threat, his words. And it wasn't a grave and growing threat.

He said something that's unusual for a politician. He said, you know, if the deficit is larger than we're projecting, I'll trim back on my new spending initiatives. I wish the president would be as responsible and trim back on some of his…

I certainly hope that Kerry gets a chance to talk about his ideas for jobs, first off, because Latino unemployment is at a record high under President Bush.

The record is clear. President Bush was warned about bin Laden by President Clinton, by Sandy Berger the national security adviser, the Hart Rudman Commission, by the Gilmore Commission, Dick Clark, his own top terrorism expert and by…

If you think we are doing a good job of creating jobs and balancing the budget, and expanding health care, you should vote for Bush. If you want a direction, and new idea's to create more jobs and provide more health care you should vote…

There are things called Kerry agreements, that presidents for 20 years have had to use to try to crack down on terrorist financing. Now John Kerry wrote that into the law in 1988.

If you want a change, you got to vote for Kerry.

Has the president done a good job of creating jobs? No. Balancing the budget, no. Protecting the environment, no. Expanding health care, no.

I mean, George W. Bush was AWOL from the National Guard, John Kerry was fighting in Vietnam.

Kerry's is economic. It's jobs, it's health care, it's outsourcing.

Senator Kerry believes this is a debate about swing voters, so he'll want to talk about jobs, and health care, and the environment.

The president believes this is a base turnout election, so he is going to want to talk about social issues -- abortion, and gun control, and gays.

I think the answer is what we're doing now, write these letters, speak out, and to show people how completely biased this corporation is.