When it comes to federal elections law, Tom DeLay and his special-interest friends live by one set of rules, and everyone else lives by a very different set.

When people told me ‘It’s great to be here’, they meant at the house, not with me.

All the chemistry for a big election is beginning to take shape.

Rather than doing the kind of fact-checking that normally goes with a story, you ran with certain stories for not wanting to get beat. There’s a pressure that exists in your profession. I would be...

Many of us are talking about the war, talking about the costs.

The president wants to get the information that the grand jury needs,

The mayor deserves criticism — not for what he knew, but for what he did not know. While he focused his attention … on the day-to-day work of governing, he should have focused more on...

This is not a mystery anymore. We know what needs to be done, … The Great Lakes has gotten nine studies in four years from this administration, and Iraq has gotten $4.5 billion. Give Iraq...

The American people… want change. They want big ideas, big reform.

The fact is, Bush’s war policy has failed. It’s failed! Who better to say so than Jack Murtha?

In Ohio, the Republican Party is in a meltdown over the issue of ethics,

There may be political jabs and barbs between the two of us, but at the end of the day there is deep respect,

We’re at the very beginning stages of this, not at the end,

They ended up spending a total, their campaign plus the independent, about 1.3 million. I only ended up spending about — not only, but I spent about 2 million. But I had no intention of...

John Boehner moved over a chair or two in the Republican leadership’s game of musical chairs, but the special interests are still playing the same old tune.

My gut tells me he doesn’t really care about the nitty-gritty of politics. It’s just not what his interest is. But guess what? In government, there’s politics. So you don’t get a pass [to] say,...

I think there’s a lot of anger and we’re gaining because of that. We could blow it. They can gain ground they’ve lost, but there’s a big shift going on.

This is going to test whether moderate Republicans are really moderate. There are a ton of people who will have a day of reckoning coming.

Things happened there that I don’t think are the finest hours for anybody, whether it was a journalist, the legal system or, in that case of the political system, who would say that was an...

There’s no safe district. You can run but you can’t hide.

In the most significant test of the political environment since 2004, Americans resoundingly supported the new priorities of Democratic candidates over the status quo policies of President Bush and Republican leadership,

comprehensive legislation that deals with gangs, drugs and guns.

I’ve never been in a place where winning has hurt the ability to do anything.

What is more comforting to the terrorists around the world: the failure to pass the 9/11 legislation because we lacked ‘a majority of the majority,’ or putting aside partisan politics to enact tough new legislation...

There’s no safe Republican district. You can run, but you cannot hide.

You never want a serious crisis to go to waste.

We’ve come to this historical opportunity and this historical time to get a balanced budget and a targeted tax cut, … Fox News Sunday.

The Democratic message beat the Republican message,

Our voters, going into the midterm elections, are mobilized and energized; theirs are despondent, … Virginia is a bright, bright red state – shining red.

We’re getting at best an impressionistic sense of what’s going on in the economy. Major policy decisions are being made based on data that is inadequate to the task.

Absolutely not. I had none,

The Republican Congress is about to slash more than $50 billion from investments in our children’s future in health care and education. And yet, because of Republican priorities, they are going to actually add $20...

[But Democrats clearly face hurdles that make it harder to translate national discontent into big changes in the House.] The map is not skewed for competitive races, … On the other hand, you have voters...

He has to get off his mountain bike and back to work.

I think tax reform is a winning issue for Democrats, … There’s more momentum out there for getting something done on the tax code than there is on what the president wants to do with...

As individuals, we will be judged in our lives by the totality of our actions. Not one thing will stand out. And I think that’s how we get judged by our colleagues and that’s how...

The American people … want change. They want big ideas, big reform.

The schedule speaks volumes — he’s persona non grata around the country, … Challengers and incumbents can’t be seen with him. But at the Capitol, he’s a powerful force. This Congress is his domain. The...

Instead of a State of the Union address, the president kicked off his re-election campaign. His speech was long on rhetoric and short on resources.

I believe the record I was allowed to help establish by the side of the president was important.

We invoke the sacrifices of our fallen heroes in the abstract, but we seldom take time to thank them individually.

When the Speaker’s gavel comes down, it’s intended to open the People’s House, and lately it’s looking like the Auction House, … Whether it’s an energy bill that gives more $8 billion to the oil...

You could make progress on this in a New York minute, … We’re getting very close here.

We’re going to make progress on the people’s business, and if [Republicans] choose to marry themselves up with Ken Starr, that’s their business.

I sometimes joke, Paula, even paranoid people have enemies.

If they think they can go forward as if nothing’s changed, they do not understand what the rest of America has witnessed over the past week.

At the very time our country yearns for national unity in the wake of hurricane Katrina, these comments reflect a spirit of hate and division.

When you get down to it, [voters] hate everyone right now. Do you blame them? They feel let down.

the president wanted an open and honest discussion …. the full transcript will be made available.

I still believe the Lewinsky investigation was way off from the focus of what Whitewater was, which turned out to be nothing at the end of the process. And I think that there were people...