George Stephanopoulos Quotations

For the president to resign now would be wrong. President Clinton may have debased himself with his behavior, but we shouldn't debase the office with an impulsive overreaction.

The Clinton paradox: How could a president so intelligent, so compassionate, so public-spirited and so conscious of his place in history act in such a stupid, selfish and self-destructive manner?

The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep.

You would have to say his number one accomplishment has been to inspire a sense of confidence in the country. That confidence, that optimism, not only gives President Obama a political cushion, but it could have a real world economic impact.

The longer the president goes without telling his side of the story, the more unease there will be in the public.

Four years in the White House and two presidential campaigns is an awful long time. In politics, every year in the White House is like dog years, six years off your life.

It's going to be a long, hot summer. The hotter it gets in Baghdad, the hotter it will get in D.C.

There has been an awful lot of time and money spent looking at the president over the last four years The American people saw through those investigations. They voted for the president. And despite all of this time and attention, nothing has turned up because the president and the first lady did nothing wrong.

years and years of practice trying to keep up with Peter Jennings.

Yes, I know this is what I need to do, and I know it can work?

No, no. They would send it to the states, and it would be up to each state to decide.

I didn't believe Clinton, and I couldn't buy the party line -- which meant I was the enemy now, ... I didn't think I was a hypocrite, because my defense of Clinton against past bimbo eruptions had been predicated on my belief that he wouldn't create new ones ... For several years, I had served as Clinton's character witness. Now I felt like a dupe.

For the president to resign now would be wrong, ... President Clinton may have debased himself with his behavior, but we shouldn't debase the office with an impulsive overreaction.

It could go through the end of the year,

start thinking about the country instead of trying to save his marriage and his own fanny. . . Self-indulgence has been in the saddle too long and is taking him over a cliff.

What I tried to do is write an honest book, and I think it is a fair book that showed all sides of the Clintons, of the White House at that time, and not really try to make too many hard judgments, ... This Week.

They think this can't do any more damage, ... Good Morning America.

It only works in the Senate if everyone agrees,

I'm not saying that spending on wars and terrorism is a bad thing,'' Armstrong said in an interview on ABC's

In return for the privilege of influencing issues you care about, in return for the rush of power and reflected glory, you defend the boss - fiercely, unapologetically, giving no ground.

I do not believe that loyalty should demand defending behavior that I find abhorrent.

Democrats had a secret meeting in Reid's office on Halloween night at 6:15 and they hatched this plot, ... They said the only way they could get this investigation going was to do it in secret. They say they've been frustrated for a year and a half in getting this investigation into whether the administration twisted the intelligence and they're making no apologies whatsoever for it.

I'm learning all the right vocabulary words - 'You're right, I'm wrong.'

Well, I did say we'll put it out and we'll put it out when we can. But I don't know what we can put out or when we can put it out.

In politics, every year in the White House is like dog years, it takes off seven years of your life.