31 Quotes by Cal Jillson

President Bush is trying to regain his footing and develop some policy momentum for his second term, and this is just another weight around his ankles.

People know we're running huge deficits and they know the costs have just rocketed upward. Many Americans are now looking at the Iraq situation in that context.

People have real reservations about the Republicans, but they aren't clear what the Democrats stand for. There is a widely perceived general disarray in the Democratic Party. It's too early yet for a leader to emerge.

That was an effective strategy to get through the primary. But in the general election, he'll have to face Lampson and Steve Stockman, as well as the press, both local and national.

The president is doing the right thing to assure people that the federal government is much better prepared for Rita than it was for Katrina.

At some point they'll have to be summoned to the table.

There's going to be significant and long-term damage to Bush, especially because this disaster comes on the heels of a slow bleeding of his approval ratings over the past year that accelerated over the summer.

There's no way back for Bush on Iraq. He can't run away from that policy. He has to secure something he can plausibly point to as success.

is going to plague him not only in his second term but in history even in Texas.