MIKE MCCURRY

There's a wider agenda that speaks to what the Democratic Party has historically stood for, which are economic rights for those who are struggling in the middle class, concern for the poor, for economic justice for those who are marginalized in our society.

The bully pulpit is not an open microphone. You have to target it very carefully.

By and large, people are sort of technologically averse in the political space.

Not knowing the answer is better than consciously misleading.

The White House is a huge organization, first and foremost.

I said what I said, but I shouldn’t have said it.

Opinion elites begin to shape a debate.

The Speaker the last time I checked, is probably one institution in American political life less popular than the IRS.

I'm not going to parse the statement. You've got the statement I made earlier and the statement speaks for itself.

When I worked at the White House in the mid-1990s, I would not have dreamed of sharing my beliefs on faith with my colleagues.

For the progressive left, social activism grounded in faith and theology crested in the 1960s.

In Barack Obama, Democrats have put forth a man of strong religious faith who is comfortable connecting his spiritual life to his public role as a policymaker.

For me, and maybe for many religious kids of the '60s, the church lost relevance the more it became a surrogate in the movement for social and political change.

The White House is a huge organization, first and foremost.

There are so many similarities between a startup venture and a political campaign - the rhythm, the tempo, the hours, the intensity.

There's a wider agenda that speaks to what the Democratic Party has historically stood for, which are economic rights for those who are struggling in the middle class, concern for the poor, for economic justice for those who are marginalized in our society.

When I worked at the White House in the mid-1990s, I would not have dreamed of sharing my beliefs on faith with my colleagues.

I said what I said, but I shouldn’t have said it.

Not knowing the answer is better than consciously misleading.

Only fools answer hypothetical questions.

The Speaker the last time I checked, is probably one institution in American political life less popular than the IRS.

Why do you ask me a question like that, when you know you’re not going to get an answer that’s going to be useful to anyone?

Everybody is entitled to have an opinion. But it is also useful to have some facts.

Illuminate choice.

In America, by and large, in the middle of the road you find us, we the people.

The bully pulpit is not an open microphone. You have to target it very carefully.

Candor helps a lot.

Opinion elites begin to shape a debate.

Maybe there'll be a simple, innocent explanation. I don't think so, because I think we would have offered that up already.

By and large, people are sort of technologically averse in the political space.

I'm not going to parse the statement. You've got the statement I made earlier and the statement speaks for itself.

President Bush had an opportunity tonight to say, 'Look ... things aren't going very well in Iraq and we did make some miscalculations and misjudgments there,' but he is so stubbornly arrogant - he just sticks with that same formula that he has in talking about the war on Iraq that just defies the reality that we all see on the ground.