“It was his debut and he wowed us. That’s the running headline from last night’s presidential address to the Congress.” — MSNBC’s Chris Matthews opening Hardball, February 25, 2009.
“[President Obama] came right out of the box and said, 'make no mistake about it, we are going to recover.’ That’s the most important thing he wanted the country to hear last night. He began on…
MSNBC's Keith Olbermann: “What can the Republican response be?...How do you come out against recovering the nation's sense of self and its optimism? How do you come out against words like ‘boldly…
“The larger question raised by [Senator Judd] Gregg’s about-face, is it a sign that Republicans have no desire for real bipartisanship? Have they, in fact, declared war on President Obama?...Do…
“Mr. President, you got no honeymoon. Not a single Republican vote in the House on your first major piece of legislation....I wonder if, coming into the presidency, maybe you were too nice. If I’m…
“You campaigned to change the culture in Washington, to change the politics-as-usual culture here. Are you frustrated? Do you think it is much, much harder to do that than you ever anticipated…
ABC reporter Claire Shipman on the Oct. 31 GMA asked the author of a new biography on Michelle Obama how the candidate's wife deals with her husband being "lusted after by all of these women out…
Chris Matthews is overwhelmed by sight of Bill Clinton endorsing Obama.
“The Bush administration seemed clueless about the magnitude of the [Hurricane Katrina] disaster....President Bush lost his carefully cultivated image of competence. The President’s image of…
George Stephanopoulos: “Did government neglect turn a natural disaster into a human catastrophe? And was it rooted in racism?” Rapper Kanye West on NBC’s Concert for Hurricane Relief: “George Bush…
“You know, I’ve been to some pretty lousy places in my life. And Iraq over the past 12 months and Banda Aceh, open graves and bodies. These were Americans, and everyone watching the coverage all…
“Hurricane Katrina is George Bush’s Monica Lewinsky. One difference, and I’ll say this, the only difference is this: That tens of thousands of people weren’t stranded in Monica Lewinsky’s vagina.…
“For many of this country’s citizens, the mantra has been, as we were taught in social studies it should always be, whether or not I voted for this President, he is still my President. I suspect…
“After meeting with Louisiana officials last week, Rev. Jesse Jackson said, quote, ‘Many black people feel that their race, their property conditions and their voting patterns have been a factor…
NPR’s Nina Totenberg: “And let us say one other thing. For years, we have cut our taxes, cut our taxes and let the infrastructure throughout the country go, and this is just the first of a number…
“There have been some that have suggested that race has been a factor because so many of the people in New Orleans who have been suffering, as you well know, are African-American....Do you believe…