Hillary has been making her case to the people of New York for the past year. She’s been in all 62 counties. She’s been talking in a positive way about a series of issues: education,...

It’s going to be a strong fight. It’s going to be based on issues, education, health care, working families.

[Defenders say she can easily navigate from past to future.] I would quote her husband who often said — and it’s absolutely a truism — that people vote the future, not the past, … Rhetorically...

This might adversely impact Democrats’ chances of winning the statehouse.

What constitutes an American? Not color nor race nor religion. Not the pedigree of his family nor the place of his birth. Not the coincidence of his citizenship. Not his social status nor his bank...

Ahhhhh! … Where’s your driver when you need him?

The trouble with Senator Long is that he is suffering from halitosis of the intellect. That’s presuming Senator Long has an intellect.

[Ickes] called me and very nicely said, ‘I sent you that fax in error. I shouldn’t have sent it, would you please shred it?’

This is coming from Mr. Altman’s diary. I don’t remember it, but I will say to you that I wouldn’t want anybody poking around in 20 years of my life.

That great, overgrown lummox of a Colonel McCormick, mediocre in ability, less than average in brains and a damn physical coward in spite of his size, sitting in the tower of the Tribune building with...

If Giuliani’s in, he’s in. If somebody else is in, he’s in. But the key factors are the issues she’s been prosecuting, and that’s what you’re going to hear tonight and that’s what you’re going...

I’m not going to speak for the people of New York. They’ll hear the issues and make up their minds in November.

He had more stamina than I will ever have. He came in with Roosevelt in 1932 and served two years under Harry Truman and they had a falling out, and my father, I think, quit...

We wanted to shut down the system and get our candidate out early. If ever there was a foundering ship that was it. The longer we went on, the lower we went down in the...

tarnish the Democratic Party in general, and President Clinton, and more pointedly, Vice President Gore.

This is a very, very powerful showing for Howard Dean. There’s no question about it.

People are really beginning to understand how radical it is. It’s radical with a smile and compassion as it’s headline, but it is not compassionate,

I’m not sure that’s a winning issue for Democrats.

The left hand probably didn’t know what the right had was doing on some of the subpoenas and also they’ve had so many subpoenas in the White House and so many document requests, and they’ve...

[STRAUSS : OK. Exhibit 1002 is an e-mail from Karen Hancox, who’s the deputy political director in the White House, to Kimberly Tilley, the vice president’s director of scheduling. It’s cc’d to me. And the...

first day and a half in this contest … has been really riddled with insult and political invective as opposed to really talking about the issues.

I think he’s an extraordinarily upstanding and ethical guy, … And he’s a passionate Democrat.

The goal [tonight] is to tell people about these two organizations. There are a lot of new organizations so one of the purposes is to describe them, what they are about and yes, to raise...

I am against government by crony.

This smacks of Gestapo. … This outstrips McCarthyism. …Forget chilling effect, this is deep freeze.