12 Quotes by Charles Franklin

I bet that really did stimulate contributions a lot. The censure resolution, and lack of any other Democrat backing it, really put a lot of Bush-haters onto Feingold.

Our attention span is simply shorter. Our willingness to put up with a difficult military situation and losses isn't what it used to be.

This war, as bad as it is, touches a far smaller percentage of the population than Vietnam did.

Presidents who are low in the polls have a hard time getting Congress to go along with them. He has to persuade the people in Congress to follow his legislative agenda and they're all worried about 2006.

This is doing Feingold a lot more good than you would have thought based on the reaction he got in Congress. Democrats were running like crazy to get away from it. But it's a great strategy for Feingold because it really helps him out in building a base of intense partisans.

The base is his last refuge at this point.

It takes a lot more than one day of good news or two days of good news to turn polls around. It doesn't take much bad news to keep the polls down. You keeping getting hit.

If I were in the White House, I would be pretty pleased about this. It does suggest pretty strongly that the president has the opportunity to drive public opinion on this.

If I were in the White House, I would be pretty pleased about this.