“If your party serves the powerful and well-funded interests, and there's no limit to what you can spend, you have a permanent, structural advantage. We're averaging fifty-dollar checks in our campaign, and trying to ward off these seven- or eight-figure checks on the other side. That disparity is pretty striking, and so are the implications. In many ways, we're back in the Gilded Age. We have robber barons buying the government.” GovernmentPoliticsWealthyPolitical PartiesRepublicansDemocratsCampaign FinanceGilded AgeRobber BaronsDonationsPolitical CampaignsU SFund Raising Author:David Axelrod
“Hillary: Live With It' is no rallying cry.” United StatesHillary ClintonUnited States Elections 2016 Author:David Axelrod
“I have never believed in the Wizard of Oz theory of consulting, that I am all-knowing and all-seeing, and that everyone around me is kind of a backbencher” KindKnowingSeeingTheoryWizardsConsultingBackbenchers Author:David Axelrod
“I think President Obama is a committed, practicing nonideologue. He's consumed by neither tactics nor ideology. He is more concerned about outcomes than he is about process and categorizations” ThinkingProcessPresidentConcernedCommittedIdeologyOutcomesPresident ObamaTacticsConsumedCategorization Author:David Axelrod
“Any time you have loose ballots, you have to worry about shenanigans. It's a shame such a hard-fought election has to come down to something like this.” HardWorryShameElectionBallotsShenanigans Author:David Axelrod
“We don't want to go back to the same policies and practicies that drove our economy into a ditch, that punished the middle class, and that led to this catastrophe. We keep moving forward.” WantMovingClassEconomyMiddlePolicyFailureLetting GoMoving ForwardMiddle ClassCatastropheKeep MovingKeep Moving ForwardJust Keep MovingJust Keep Moving ForwardJust Keep Moving OnMoving Back Author:David Axelrod
“The truth is that as we move forward, if one side says we can't raise any taxes on anybody or any interest, and the other side says we can't cut anything, we're obviously not going to make progress on this. And our interest is in making progress on this.” IfsMovingSidesInterestCuttingProgressTruth IsTaxesRaisesMoving ForwardKeep MovingKeep Moving Forward Author:David Axelrod
“But obviously, we're looking for all good ideas to help deal with our long-term debt problem. This is something that is going to affect our economy. It affects our kids. And we need to deal with it.” NeedsLongIdeasHelpingProblemKidsTermDealsEconomyDebtBrilliantLong TermGood IdeasBrilliant Ideas Author:David Axelrod
“This marketplace where people can buy insurance who don't have it today, a competitive marketplace - that's an idea that both sides embrace.” PeopleIdeasTodaySidesEmbraceBoth SidesMarketplaceTwo Sides Author:David Axelrod
“Two years before the last election you nor anyone else would have predicted that Barack Obama was going to get elected president of the United States.” YearsTwoStatesLastsPresidentUnitedUnited StatesElectionBarackUsaTwo Years Author:David Axelrod
“I think those autoworkers whose industry would have collapsed if the president hadn't intervened are certainly better off.” IfsThinkingPresidentIndustryBetter Off Author:David Axelrod
“I think the millions of people who had been able to renegotiate their mortgages so they are paying lower interest rates are better off.” PeopleThinkingAbleInterestMillionsRateBetter OffMortgageInterest Rate Author:David Axelrod
“I think the average American recognizes that it took years to create the crisis that erupted in 2008 and peaked in January of 2009. And it's going to take some time to work through it.” ThinkingYearsCrisisAverageJanuary Author:David Axelrod
“I think that the millions and millions of young Americans, young Americans, who have health care today, who wouldn't have had it if the president hadn't acted are better off.” IfsThinkingCareTodayYoungPresidentMillionsHealth CareBetter Off Author:David Axelrod
“I think that more and more you're going to see people of good will on their side of the aisle say you know what, we got to get off the bus here, this is not headed in the right direction.” PeopleThinkingKnowsSidesBusGood WillRight DirectionAisle Author:David Axelrod
“If you look at the themes that he struck from the minute he started running for president through today, there is a very high level of consistency, and there is a sense that he is who he is. Obama's governing is completely consistent with the way he campaigned and the themes on which he campaigned, the issues he highlighted, the vision he shared.” IfsWayLooksRunningTodayRomancePresidentLevelsVisionIssuesMinutesThemeConsistentConsistencyGoverningHigh Level Author:David Axelrod
“I came to the conclusion months ago, and I said it to members of Congress, that the only way people are going to fully appreciate what this reform is if we pass it and implement it and it becomes not a caricature but a reality, and I still believe that. So I think it will be easier to sell it moving forward than it was to this point.” PeopleIfsThinkingWayBelieveSaidStillsRealityMovingMonthsEasierMembersAppreciateSellsCongressMoving ForwardConclusionReformKeep Moving ForwardCaricaturesI Still Believe Author:David Axelrod
