#residential

In the final analysis this congressional race is always going to be a close race, whether there's a presidential race or governor's race or not. But is this a better year? Yes, this would probably be a better year. ↗

— Baron Hill

#analysis #better #close #congressional #final

The age of Lincoln and Jefferson memorials is over. It will be presidential libraries from now on. ↗

— Ada Louise Huxtable

#jefferson #libraries #lincoln #memorials #now

After listening to Rick Santorum, I'm now for late-term abortions (say up to age 53). ↗

— Quentin R. Bufogle

#birth-control #presidential-election #rick-santorum #women-s-rights #age

One of the many, many salutary aspects of Barack Obama's impending presidential nomination is the sea change his victory marks in the battle for the mind-set of the American foreign policy establishment. ↗

— Eric Alterman

#american foreign policy #aspects #barack #battle #change

The early commentators who put down the pre-presidential Roosevelt as an empty-headed young lightweight, all ambition and no talent, now seem comically wrong to a modern book-reading, movie-going, television-watching, legend-loving American public conditioned to think of him as one of the presidential giants on the order of Washington and Lincoln. ↗

— Russell Baker

#american #american public #commentators #conditioned #down

You have had presidential candidates over the last 30 years who would have had a very hard time getting nominated under the old system. One example is John Kennedy. ↗

— Michael Beschloss

#example #getting #had #hard #hard time

Sooner or later, I need to begin to do what any candidate does in a presidential race; I need to begin to win. ↗

— Lamar Alexander

#begin #candidate #does #i #later

If I were mayor, I'd invite everyone to have free boat trips on the river and free balloon rides over the city. I'd let the elderly in residential homes wander free. ↗

— Jane Birkin

#boat #city #elderly #everyone #free

We've got 50 percent voter turnout for presidential elections. That's appalling. We can do so much better. ↗

— Joan Blades

#better #elections #got #much #percent

Political consultants are pugilists, masters in the dark art of negativity. Which is why it's surprising to hear Democrats such as Steve McMahon and Republicans like Rich Galen urging their presidential candidates to be more, well, positive. ↗

— Ron Fournier

#candidates #consultants #dark #democrats #hear