Small attacks — those under $5,000 damage — should be treated as a misdemeanor and not a felony. But multiple attacks should be treated as one large attack and punished accordingly,

He’s trying to put the episode behind him,

They decided that rather than just doing a document dump, they would do a garbage dump on Monday, and I think people are going to wonder about that, … Meet the Press.

So I think it’s important to communicate with the people in terms of what the real facts are on these proposals and try to have a discussion and a dialogue that gives people information. I...

We’re going to keep pressing them to fulfill the commitment they not only made to the president but to the American people that this program to put teachers in the classroom will be funded adequately,...

That’s something that I think is within the bounds of the laws and regulations there are, but still I think it really is a first in American politics.

Realistically, I think we are not prepared to go home until we do get more teachers and lower class sizes,

all concur that Clinton pushed Abdullah hard for cooperation.

When you look at your exit polls tomorrow, you will find Democrats did very well because the economy is not going in the right direction,

That doesn’t necessarily mean they have to have an explicit proposal that they put forward that all Democrats sign up to, but I think they need to throw some ideas out that, at least directionally,...

I think that our legal team will take a look at that in the days to come,

This tax cut is bloated. It uses up the entire surplus. It provides not one cent for Medicare. It provides not one cent to extend the solvency of Social Security. It will not result in...

I did answer all of the questions put to me today, … Nothing in my testimony in any way contradicted the strong denials that the president hasmade to these allegations, and since I have been...

If there was a realignment going on, that’s now over. It has crashed and burned.

I think … that things are a little bit up for grabs right now,

There are people who kind of gravitate towards running politics based on new ideas and issues, and that was what the secret was for Clinton.

We bear the responsibility for having a process that we thought was manageable that in the last days, I think, broke down and let some of these [late pardon requests] go through, … There are...

We never discussed any of the matters concerning any of the things that have been alleged by [Clinton’s] critics,

There should be greater judicial oversight of trap and trace authorities, … Federal law should make clear that such orders should only be issued after a judicial officer has determined that the proper factual showing...

They’re actually making a problem for themselves.

A majority isn’t enough; we’ve got to break a filibuster over there, … That’s a sad commentary on the state of where this Congress is.

Ultimately I think what people care about, particularly on an issue like Social Security, is not really what’s right and what’s left but what’s right and what’s wrong.

I believe that President Clinton considered the legal merits of the arguments for the pardon as he understood them, and he rendered his judgment, wise or unwise, on the merits.

I think he’s done something that I think President Clinton did not do in midterm races or even in his own re-election,

If there’s a will to do it, there’s certainly a way to do it, and we’re going to keep pressing for it. We refuse to give up on it,

First and foremost, when I think of him – I’m prejudiced; I worked for the guy for six and a half years – when I think of him, I think of him first and foremost...

Resignation is just simply out of the question,

[White House Chief of Staff John Podesta said Clinton hopes to begin serious negotiations with the GOP-led Congress on spending and tax issues after the veto is official.] We believe that some tax relief is...

NATO did do an assessment of putting ground troops in, in a nonpermissive environment, and those plans and assessments could be updated quickly if we decide to do that, need to do that, … Meet...

You actually need one of these to get on the airplane,

Pick a different town,

I think if you look at yesterday’s New York Times poll, particularly when you judge Democrats in Congress versus the Republicans in Congress, people put a little more faith, or even a little more than...

We’re frustrated … The next two weeks will tell for the American people,

They are well on their way to dipping into the Social Security surplus, … They ought to stop lying about it.

It is time for the government to declassify records that are more than 25 years old and to provide scientists with data that will assist in determining the real nature of this phenomenon.

There was no wrong-doing.

I think that people have to have to have a sense of what ideas are one the progressive side, the Democratic side in order ultimately to be effective in the political world.

If that’s your definition of the Clinton faction, then I think that that seems to be in ascendancy. That might include a guy like John Edwards, who’s just starting this new center in Chapel Hill...

basically just didn’t care if we followed Justice Department guidelines.

The president is committed to saving Social Security, maintaining our hard won fiscal responsibility, reforming and strengthening our public schools so they work better for our children, passing a patient’s bill or rights, strengthening America’s...

We’re trying … to bend ears, not break peoples’ arms,

I think that what we’ve been able to do is put together both a good group of scholars and analysts and people who aggressively want to make the case to the American public.

He wanted actually to sleep on a few and he went to bed last night doing that and so we’ll probably be making an announcement a little later this morning,

Our administration has already moved to liberalize export controls on encryption, allowing more companies to export the technology to more end users. And we’ve done so while maintaining a framework necessary to protect our national...

The D.L.C. incident is over, and it isn’t particularly meaningful. But in the long run, if you believe what Mark believes, it will get you in trouble.

If medicine was practiced in 1965 the way it’s practiced today, there’s no question that prescriptions would have been included in Medicare.

If you ask the people who are professional political analysts, they would say that the way redistricting has worked, that the Republicans have something of a lock on the House until a redistricting occurs after...

[After I spoke with Penn, I repeated his assessment of the backlash to Podesta, whose reach into all aspects of the progressive world – from bloggers to members of Congress – makes him as knowledgeable...

wants us to be ready to govern on day one, and so he pledged to work with us.

He obviously enjoys his job,