Tad Devine Quotations

If anything, after last night's performance, our horizon may broaden. We think we have a very large playing field in terms of electoral votes. We might get a little more aggressive in terms of paid media and where the candidates go.

He didn't benefit from his own body language.

John Kerry has a 35-year consistent record of fighting for people. ... And we welcome the debate.

I think three weeks of doing this intensely is the right amount of time. This is the final building block in the process . . . the most powerful one.

We must own crisis. We must brand crisis.

When candidates introduce themselves through biography, it invites voters in in a unique way, a way of relating to people in their own lives and experiences.

The persuadable voters are heavily inclined against the president, ... They're looking for someone to take this nation in a new direction....And I think Iraq is a perfect example: $200 billion being spent today in Iraq on -- over there when we need it over here to deal with the problems that we face here at home.

We want a debate and a campaign about the issues,

And this is just another example where his insensitivity has divided people, and I think it's hurting our country.

The support for Gore comes much more quickly and much more easily once voters get a sense of who he is. Until they understand something about his motivation and his biography and his background, it is difficult for voters to get a handle on him outside of the image of a vice president.

The way we're going to deal with those attacks is by taking them head on, ... This Week.

It's not a tidal wave now, but the ingredients are starting to fall into place.

It's interesting to talk to Bernie [Sanders] about his life and growing up, you know, growing up in an immigrant neighborhood in Brooklyn. His mother died at a very early age. He was young then. And, you know, I think that experience really shaped him.

My parents, neither one of them went to college. That wasn't available to them. But, you know, we had a wonderful life. You know, it - you know, we lived in what would now be considered poverty, but, you know, it didn't feel like poverty when I was living it. I had a great time and got a - had a great experience. I went to Catholic school through high school. I had a wonderful education.

My mother - neither one of my parents went to college. My mother, after her four children had grown up, went back and got her high school equivalency degree at night, at Central High School in Providence, became a teacher's aide.