Steve Schmidt Quotations

While Kerry merely talks about investing in technology, the President's investments have preserved America's status as the world's leader in research and development.

While Kerry is busy talking to veterans, the president is busy delivering for veterans.

The procedure will be performed under local anesthetic. It will take place next weekend. It will involve a short hospital stay. The vice president will return to work shortly thereafter.

Luckily for Kerry, there are a number of five-star restaurants in Washington that can prepare gourmet box lunches in case he's forced to make another faux fast-food stop at Wendy's,

Many of this country's great pioneers arrived in the state via the Oregon Trail, fueled by hope and optimism. John Kerry's trail to Oregon has been driven by pessimism and half-truths.

I don't have bitter feelings about South America. I don't feel like they're trying to put us out of business. We're just trying to participate in a global economy.

I felt like I was just kind of forced into the offense. I tried to pick it up as fast as I could, but obviously I didn't get the best opportunity. This is a great opportunity for (Spencer) and me. We don't have any choice but to step up. When your number is called, it's time to show what you can do. That's why we chose to play the game.

If it was CWD, it would be unprecedented to find that many showing obvious symptoms in a short space of time.

I got a few scratches and one of my legs is bruised. Otherwise, I'm fine.

We look forward to a vigorous debate with the Kerry campaign on the issues. We welcome the opportunity to discuss the terms at the appropriate time,

Kerry's words will ring hollow in light of the fact that he helped block the president's energy bill to increase America's energy independence through more renewable energy usage.

Kerry's statements to Dubuque voters make it clear that he will say anything to anyone at any time if he thinks it will help him score political points,

Kerry's sham economic indicator says that our economy was better under Jimmy Carter than under Ronald Reagan, a deception few Ohioans are likely to believe.

Kerry's economic policies would raise taxes on minority small-business owners, whose numbers are steadily increasing as a result of the President's pro-growth policies. Under President Bush's leadership, a majority of minority families are homeowners for the first time in history.

Kerry didn't show up at the Speed Queen or Leon's, but he had no trouble eating a filet mignon and asparagus at a lakefront restaurant instead, ... It will be interesting to see whether Kerry's cuisine matches his rhetoric in Kansas City tomorrow.

John Kerry's shifting positions, his contradictions, his pessimism and his hopeless rhetoric send the wrong message to our troops, to our allies, to our enemies and to the world,

John Kerry's rhetoric on the campaign trail is hiding a long list of missed votes and empty promises on the issues he claims are priorities.

John Kerry's attacks today were baseless. He said American troops did not secure the explosives, when the explosives were already missing.

John Kerry's attacks today were baseless, ... He said American troops did not secure the explosives, when the explosives were already missing.

John Kerry is right to say that this moment is a moment of truth, but that truth must include John Kerry admitting that he offers no credible alternatives to the policies in Iraq, and admitting that his suggestions are proposals that the administration is already doing: involving NATO, involving the U.N. and training Iraqi security forces.

John Kerry has played politics with homeland security throughout this campaign, and his attacks today are no exception.

John Kerry has made up a false measurement to support his ongoing efforts to talk down the economy, ... John Kerry's support for higher taxes on small business, Social Security benefits and gasoline would bring misery to America's working families.

It is a great example of John Kerry's priorities that on the day he said he did not have time to receive his intelligence briefing on threats to America, he found time to attend a Hollywood fund-raiser, filled with enough hate and vitriol to make Michael Moore blush.

It is a condition that needs to be addressed, so not to become a problem over time.

It is a condition that needs to be addressed so as not to be a problem over time,

I think that the message is one of reform and a vision for the future. I think that's one that excites all political audiences.

Last month, John Kerry was pushing for the extension of unemployment benefits. Today he had the chance to actually vote on that question but was too busy playing politics when he would have made the difference in the Senate.

will likely deliver a backward looking defense of the status quo that does not properly address the threats before our nation.

The president has been consistent in his support for our armed forces.

Those documents will remain at the Department of Justice because they are privileged.

We're kind of frustrated because the Kent County deer were taken to a landfill before we could test them.

Today's campaign rhetoric will do nothing to help him bridge his growing credibility gap on the economy. His speech failed to address the mystery of his own budget gap: Which taxes will he raise and which federal spending programs will he cut?

The decision to oppose is reflexive, not serious or substantive.

We want to be alert in the morning, so we'll practice that way, too.

We came here not just for fun and good-eating. It's not just a big slumber party. There's a purpose. We're here to win state championship.

There are a great many groups that made a decision a long time ago to oppose whomever President Bush put forward for the Supreme Court.

There are a great many groups that determined they would oppose whomever President Bush nominated. The only open question was which day they would do it.

The governor's position on all of these issues is clear. One of the things that's a good thing about the Republican Party is that it's a big tent and there's room for disagreement on policy.

The grant is basically to increase their ability to increase patrols for alcohol-related offenses.

The opposition is totally predictable. Part of this coalition includes NARAL, which has been rightly criticized for one of the most dishonest attack ads in the history of political advertising against Judge Roberts.

There's hope, ... It's around the corner. How far around the corner? I'm not sure.

The vice president's office doesn't have any comment on a private meeting with members of the Senate.

The vice president is slated to have an elective surgical procedure to treat an aneurysm in the artery behind the right knee that was discovered earlier this year during a routine checkup.

The vice president is returning to Washington to be on hand in the Senate to fulfill his constitutional duties as president of the Senate and cast tie-breaking votes, if necessary.

It was the same thing after the two regional games that we played. We started looking to the next game. There wasn't a lot of celebration going on. Not just because we want the big trophy, and we want to say we're the state champs, but because this team has come together so well in the past month or so. We want to keep it going a few more days. That's a real tribute to the entire team. More than winning gold and getting the ring they want to stay together and enjoy the journey as long as we can.

Anybody who would read this letter from 20 years ago as an indication that he would overturn Roe v. Wade is jumping to conclusions,

Apparently feeling that Kerry had not emanated enough negativity while on his pessimism and misery tour this week, the Kerry campaign e-mail asked contributors to give at the level best reflecting their anger at the president. Sounds like a fun group to be around.

Apparently disregarding his own advice that Democrats make a 'mistake' in 'looking to' the South, John Kerry is expected to talk about his plan to keep manufacturing jobs in America during his remarks in North Carolina,

They're a tough well-balanced defensive team. It should be a tough game.

It was on his last trip to Dubuque that Kerry declared that 'life begins at conception' despite having voted at least six times against banning partial-birth abortion. Kerry had previously said there is 'no such thing as a partial birth,' but told a Dubuque churchgoer that he opposes partial-birth abortion.

It's pretty clear from the more than 60,000 pages of documents that have been released that John Roberts has a great sense of humor. In this memo, he offers a lawyer joke.

The agreement today demonstrated bipartisan momentum to move this very important vote forward by Jan. 20.

It seems highly irregular that CNN would tolerate two employees' openly working and advising and appearing on behalf of the John Kerry for President campaign.

It will be interesting to see whether Kerry repeats the 'Benedict Arnold CEOs' refrain. Once Kerry had the nomination sewn up -- and was more concerned about winning support from millionaires than mill workers -- he disavowed responsibility for the Benedict Arnold line.

It will be interesting to see if Kerry again says something in Michigan that he later regrets,

The New Majority group cares deeply about the future of California and includes some of the most distinguished leaders in the country. The governor is grateful for their ongoing support of his bold agenda to continue moving the state forward.

I hope you're doing a good job spinning the press, ... because your entire campaign communications operation is now at the Thrifty Car Rental counter in Fort Lauderdale.

Gov. Schwarzenegger and Sen. McClintock are good friends. Sen. McClintock will be the Republican nominee for lieutenant governor. They're going to work together during the campaign. No two running mates ever agree on every issue, but Gov. Schwarzenegger is pleased to have Tom McClintock beside him.

In a social media age, it seems that everyone lives in their own reality and that when you give consideration to Newt Gingrich, he exists in an alternate reality, at some level, where the things he says are so diametrically opposed to the record.

I'm personally supportive of [marriage] equality for gay couples and I believe that it will happen over time.

Look, this CPAC convention is increasingly the Star Wars bar scene of the conservative movement. All that’s missing from that convention is a couple of Wookies.

Great Daniel Patrick Moynihan said that everyone`s entitled to their own opinions, but not their own facts. I`m not sure that`s true anymore.

John Kerry's newfound interest in fiscal discipline is a political gimmick that defies his 20-year record in the Senate and stands in stark contrast to his reckless and expansive promises of new government spending on the campaign trail.

John Kerry's campaign attacks on gas prices ignore the reality of Kerry's long record of supporting higher gas prices and blocking the president's comprehensive energy plan.

That could be the issue that the party - that the party faces as we get ready to potentially nominate someone who`s utterly unelectable in a general election contest.

The price for independence is often isolation and solitude.

There are change elections and there are 'more of the same' elections, and there was a lot of economic anxiety in the 1992 election and (Bill Clinton) was able to drive a change narrative. after eight years of Barack Obama, it's very difficult to understand what kind of change it is that Hillary Clinton's candidacy could represent.

Even in the face of continued good news, Kerry clings to his message of gloom and doom, supporting it with twisted statistics. Kerry's complaints about a middle class squeeze are out of touch with the reality that home sales hit a record high last month, college tuition increases slowed and consumer confidence is rising.