Paul Begala

But that's -- I do think, I'm, not everyone agrees with me, and I'm not saying it for partisan reasons, I think objectively, however, that is the only issue that, in the end, as of November 2, will really matter, can you protect us?

I do think, though, again, the threshold issue is security. I mean, people just aren't going to vote for the candidate they think won't protect them.

What in the world is this alleged documentary but political statement disguised as news?

It was right-wingers who successfully squelched political discussion when they intimidated CBS into killing a documentary about President Ronald Reagan.

Bush's great gift is his emotional intelligence. He really does connect quite well.

I think it's wiser to look at those swing voters. So on that, I'd have to say Edwards won.

Bush could short-circuit a lot of this if he would just admit that he was wrong. But he won't.

You all ought to register and vote. At this point I don't even care which party, but you better get involved in this, because it's your rear end that's at stake, not mine.

Even George W. Bush, with a Ph.D. in the obvious knows that we're good and the terrorists are evil.

I want some fisticuffs. This is important. We've got 138,000 guys out in the desert with no exit strategy and a president who doesn't know what he's doing.

What have we gotten from Dick Cheney's experience? ... He said we didn't need 200,000 troops, and we did.

You all have a lot more at stake in this election than old guys like me. ... You are.

I hope John Edwards -- you like that? Gets in there and fights about it. Absolutely.

He needs to have a big, fat reality sandwich tonight, and realize that we're in a lot of trouble in Iraq, and it's young people who are paying the price.

You have to pay down the deficit that Bush has run up, and guys and some women, your age, Ryan (ph), are over there in the desert tonight. And you know, as long as we have this president there, they're going to be stuck in the desert…

George W. Bush outsourced the writing of our environmental laws to Enron and Exxon and all the big polluters. And so anybody who likes to go hunt or fish or actually breathe, they ought to be for John Kerry.

Kerry wants to tell those voters is, look, I have a plan to get us out of Iraq, I have a plan to win the thing.

I think there's been too much talk about Vietnam. I think we ought to have a lot more talk about the quagmire we're in today than the quagmire we were in 35 years ago.

Bush hasn't been fully candid. If the reports that have leaked out from the Pentagon are to be believed... there is a plan to launch a major offensive in Fallujah... after the election.

If, in fact, his people are planning to pull troops out after Election Day, it really would make him the most profoundly dishonest President since Richard Nixon.

I have a hard time believing that Osama bin Laden is following the South Dakota Senate race very closely.

Hence, John Kerry, really gutsy move, go into a very conservative group, the National Guard Association, and really tearing into President Bush on Iraq.

Yes. Edwards is a guy who's really good in smalltown America. They're sending him to those battleground states in small towns. That's actually where the election is going to be won.

I think Tucker's right.

Kerry goes right into the lion's den, gives a very tough anti-Bush, anti-Iraq war speech.