7 Quotes by John Heilemann

Asked who attacked America on 9/11, [Sarah Palin] suggested several times that it was Saddam Hussein.

You have two choices, [Plouffe] told Obama. You can stay in the Senate, enjoy your weekends at home, take regular vacations, and have a lovely time with your family. Or you can run for president, have your whole life poked at and pried into, almost never see your family, travel incessantly, bang your tin cup for donations like some street-corner beggar, lead a lonely, miserable life.

If you think all these terrible things about Obama, he asked the woman, how can you possibly be undecided?Because if McCain dies, Palin would be president, she said.

John Kerry was saddled with more baggage than a curbside porter at Dulles airport.

At that moment, though, she stood there on stage, perched atop a pair of ruby-red heels, looking less like Eliza Doolittle than Dorothy; the girl swept up in the cyclone, lifted out of her black-and-white world and deposited in a Technicolor Oz.

He had just gotten word that the apocalypse was nigh.

For the next ten days, Hillary would come at Obama, guns blazing, armed with a line that, in the context of her new persona, was so well pitched and perfectly modulated that it almost sounded like poetry.