33 Quotes by Howard Fineman

As Walter Cronkite would say, that's the way it is.

If we are lucky, and George W. Bush is right, we are about to witness the War of the Happy Iraqis.

By Rice's own standards, the war was well underway by the time he took office. He was a war president the moment he took the oath. But did he act like one?

I think in the end, we were fair. He was riding a wave that overtook him. I don't think that was our fault.

The party that had nominated Clinton in 1992 eventually impeached him, thanks in good part to information supplied by GOP investigators.

The ferocity with which the presidential press corps went after the Karl Rove story is startling, but it shouldn't be surprising.

If you told me in 2004 that Howard Dean would end up running the Democratic Party months after losing the nomination to John Kerry, I'd have said you were crazy. I think he took the job because he wants to understand the forces that defeated him.

To get elected as a Democrat, it`s hard to be from the city. It`s hard to be a graduate of Duke University.

I`ve always thought of him [Barack Obama] and from conversations know him to be a guy who takes the long view, who doesn`t get too high, doesn`t get too low and seizes the opportunities when they`re there and knows how to ride the wave. I ascribe that to Hawaii. He`s a body surfer, so he knows how to get on the wave. He knows just the right time.