John Podesta quotes

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. (John Podesta)
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 2010, particularly as a result of what DeLay did in Texas. View quote
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If medicine was practiced in 1965 the way it's practiced today, there's no question that prescriptions would have been included in Medicare. View quote
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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 think they're hungry for that rather than just political rhetoric. View quote
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In fact, I think that Governor Clinton, when he was running, and President Clinton, when he was serving, actually governed with a wide range of advisors and a perspective that blended the best of ideas from the center and the left. View quote
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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. View quote
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Realistically, I think we are not prepared to go home until we do get more teachers and lower class sizes. View quote
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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 a little more faith in the Democrats in Congress. View quote
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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. View quote
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Better if a guy named Sayeed Farouk was reporting that a guy named Christopher Hayes was the shooter. View quote
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We are going to have to dump all those emails so better to do so sooner than later. (John Podesta)
I agree with that in principle. Where would you stick the knife in? View quote
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I'm definitely for making an example of a suspected leaker whether or not we have any real basis for it. View quote
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So I think in those circumstances, there's some potential that you could see a big pendulum swing like 1994, which people you thought weren't vulnerable all of the sudden get in trouble. View quote
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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. View quote
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