John Podesta People Quotations

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.

The American people have the right to know and understand the laws they live under. And they tend to demand answers sooner or later.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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'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, and there won't be any gimmicks to take the money out the back door, as we have now currently in the current bills,