6 Quotes by John Samples

You can change the staff, but you're still going to have the same policy problems.

The presidency, whoever is in it, has real advantages in the struggle, but we may see that the Congress finally believes that the Bush administration has gone too far.

It would be hard pressed to say that the State of the Union is as crucial as it is often said it is.

It is the president's chance to take the offensive, to have an agenda. His big challenge will be to set an appropriate political and electoral context for thinking about the issue of domestic spying and executive power.

Incumbents are perfectly happy to have limits on spending. Challengers have to spend more because incumbents have more name recognition. If you limit both equally you've given a slight edge to incumbents.

I don't think there's anything wrong with them being out of Washington. They might be better representatives.