Harold Ickes Quotations

He had more stamina than I will ever have. He came in with Roosevelt in 1932 and served two years under Harry Truman and they had a falling out, and my father, I think, quit about two minutes before Harry Truman fired him,

People are really beginning to understand how radical it is. It's radical with a smile and compassion as it's headline, but it is not compassionate,

first day and a half in this contest ... has been really riddled with insult and political invective as opposed to really talking about the issues.

We wanted to shut down the system and get our candidate out early. If ever there was a foundering ship that was it. The longer we went on, the lower we went down in the polls. If we'd had a year we'd have been down around zero.

This smacks of Gestapo. ... This outstrips McCarthyism. ...Forget chilling effect, this is deep freeze.

It's going to be a strong fight. It's going to be based on issues, education, health care, working families.

tarnish the Democratic Party in general, and President Clinton, and more pointedly, Vice President Gore.

This is coming from Mr. Altman's diary. I don't remember it, but I will say to you that I wouldn't want anybody poking around in 20 years of my life.

I'm not going to speak for the people of New York. They'll hear the issues and make up their minds in November.

Hillary has been making her case to the people of New York for the past year. She's been in all 62 counties. She's been talking in a positive way about a series of issues: education, health care, working families and that's how she's going to continue to conduct her race. But we expect to have a hard-fought race.

If Giuliani's in, he's in. If somebody else is in, he's in. But the key factors are the issues she's been prosecuting, and that's what you're going to hear tonight and that's what you're going to hear between now and November.

The trouble with Senator Long is that he is suffering from halitosis of the intellect. That's presuming Senator Long has an intellect.

Ahhhhh! ... Where's your driver when you need him?

The left hand probably didn't know what the right had was doing on some of the subpoenas and also they've had so many subpoenas in the White House and so many document requests, and they've had to go through so many documents it's not unusual to have overlooked something,