Journalist Quotes

In campaigns, promises are usually treated skeptically. Past positions are viewed as the one reliable way to gauge a candidate's instincts.
In politics, your opponent can be far more important than your vision.
Iowa has long been heralded as a bulwark against the money and media that dominate the modern presidential race. Its caucus requires voters in every precinct to actually gather in a room, at one time, and listen to neighbors pitch their chosen candidates, before they are allowed to vote.
Iowa is especially critical for underdog and cash-strapped campaigns, because the caucus system relies on grassroots organizing, enabling candidates with time for retail politicking to beat better-funded rivals. So underdogs usually seize on the state.
It always rankled me - in law school and the legal profession - when lawyers would speak to each other in their own exclusive language.
It's hard to be a national punch line unless lots of voters have soured on you.
It's never a good sign when extremism becomes the norm.
Large majorities of voters support taxing millionaires and protecting social security.
Law and politics are often overly complicated because there are people that don't want the rest of us to know what's going on.
Like any good lawyer, I'm going to maintain a confidentiality of advice offered in confidence.
Many candidates use a political autobiography to sell their candidacy.
My favorite rappers are a lot of other people's favorite rappers. I love Jay Z, Kanye, 2Pac, Biggie, old Mos Def.
My hope is to be a trusted utensil for viewers. Like, literally, 'That thing works. I can rely on that thing.'
My job is to be accurate and clear.
Navigating a battle between partisan, progressive organizing and decentralized petition drives is, at bottom, like trying to choose between the Democratic Party and democracy. The ideas are on different planes.
News may not be very profitable anymore, but it sure is popular.
Obama can show that America's promise of equality not only means that anyone can reach the highest office in the land - it also means that everyone is equally subject to the law.
Obama must scrutinize and disassemble the post-Sept. 11 imperial presidency, even if he reduces his own power in the process.
Obama won the presidency by running the first integrated three-screen campaign - reaching people directly via Internet, cell phones, and TV - with an authentic, complex style that resonated for voters sick of dark, deceitful, and divisive politics.
Obama's openness is a welcome change from his predecessor, who went all the way to the Supreme Court to hide the RSVP list for a single policy meeting. And transparency is intrinsically good, since in a democracy, very little government activity is legitimately secret.
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