"We need a President who is ready on day one to be Commander-in-Chief of our economy."
--
, with some message synergy. (3/23/2008)
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"The House Republican brand is so bad right now that if it were a dog food, they'd take it off the shelf."
--
(3/13/2008)
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"If you have a single ounce of self-preservation, you'll vote no."
--
Rep. Todd Tiahrt (R-KS)
, on establishing an independent ethics office.(3/12/2008)
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"I disagree with what the majority of the American people want."
--
, on Iraq(3/10/2008)
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"He said he was having a hot dog, so I had a hot dog."
--
, on his White House lunch with President Bush(3/7/2008)
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"I'm anticipating Barack and Hillary will be washing my car at the Allen High School car wash or something like that."
--
, mayor of Allentown, PA(3/6/2008)
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"Pennsylvania is the new Iowa."
--
, Clinton staffer(3/5/2008)
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"I appreciate the fact that you really snatched defeat out of the jaws of those who were trying to defeat us."
--
, thanks the troops with a Freudian slip(3/3/2008)
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"When I lost in 2000, I slept like a baby. I'd sleep two hours, then I'd wake up and cry, then sleep two hours, and wake up and cry, so on."
--
(2/29/2008)
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"That's interesting. I hadn't heard that."
--
, on the possibility of $4-a-gallon gasoline in the near future(2/28/2008)
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"I don't think it's just me. I think it is still the burden that women in public life have to bear."
--
(2/26/2008)
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"I can't wait until it's Obama vs. McCain.It's gonna be Youtube vs. Feeding Tube!"
-- Bill Maher(2/23/2008)
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"A clear lesson I learned in the museum was that outside forces that tend to divide people up inside their country are unbelievably counterproductive."
--
, after touring a genocide memorial, Kigali, Rwanda.(2/19/2008)
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"I may be killing my political career."
--
, on his continuing campaign.(2/19/2008)
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"Polls are nothing more than just like a poof of air. What matters is results."
--
(2/15/2008)
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"I love my parents a lot. But I don't want to move back in with them."
--
, not headed back to the White House(2/14/2008)
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"I do not seek the presidency on the presumption that I am blessed with such personal greatness that history has anointed me."
--
looks forward to the general election.(2/13/2008)
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"[The Senate] has just sanctioned the single largest invasion of privacy in the history of the country."
--
, on the approval of retroactive immunity for telecoms.(2/12/2008)
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"There has been an attempt to ghettoize me for a very small part of my biography."
--
, on his former life as a pastor.(2/12/2008)
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"There are only 10 basic laws that we need ... the reason that the law is more complicated is because we try to find clever ways around those 10."
--
, on legal reform.(2/11/2008)
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"Because size does matter he's doing quite a bit better with the number of delegates he has."
-- Mitt Romney, on John McCain.(2/7/2008)
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"It was close but in the end I went for Obama."
--
, at the polls.(2/5/2008)
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"My mom made pancakes every single morning at our house," he said, with a smile of fond reminiscence. He stopped abruptly. "My wife!" he corrected. "I called her my mom. My wife."
--
hands a nice Freudian slip to Dana Milbank.(2/1/2008)
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"Obama's campaign has been extraordinary and titillating for me and my family."
--
, feeling titillated, but still refusing to endorse.(1/29/2008)
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"The miracle happened. God sent an angel named Rudy Giuliani."
--
, touched by an angel.(1/28/2008)
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"The American people should be frightened."
--
, ratcheting up the rhetoric in the FISA reform debate.(1/28/2008)
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"It's fairly simple. We get to continue running for president until we decide we're not running for president."
--
, after John Edwards finished third in the South Carolina primary.(1/26/2008)
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"This was a good, old fashioned butt kicking."
--
, on Barack Obama's South Carolina victory.(1/26/2008)
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"I'm going to Philadelphia and running up the steps."
--
, on courting the coveted Sylvester Stallone endorsement.(1/24/2008)
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"I'm John Edwards and I represent the 'grown-up wing' in the Democratic Party."
--
, responds to the post-debate bickering between Obama and the Clintons.(1/22/2008)
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"I want some Obama Republicans! Obamacans!"
--
, explaining his recent reference to Reagan Democrats.(1/20/2008)
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"I got my butt kicked in Nevada."
-- John Edwards, on Face The Nation.(1/20/2008)
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"Well, it took a little while, but what's 8 years between friends?"
-- John McCain, in his South Carolina victory speech.(1/19/2008)
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"We aren't voting here, we're caucusing. "
--
, on a lawsuit challenging the legitimacy of at-large caucuses in casinos.(1/17/2008)
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"All of our problems are interconnected, but we treat them as though one is guacamole and one is chips."
--
Hillary Clinton
, speaking to a Latino audience(1/15/2008)
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"She looks like a husky, those weird blue eyes. Cindy McCain has the most intense blue eyes. ... They were so intense, I couldn't stop staring at her. She must have thought I was weird."
--
, who, for some reason, thinks she might sound weird.(1/14/2008)