191 Quotes by Larry Sabato

He's become more prominent because he's all but announced for president. That feeds into his legislative importance. He's a sleeper. ... Look at the list of who's running. None of them are purists except for Brownback.

It's an important event. It's one of those moments in his presidency that people want to remember well and he has to give them an opportunity to do so.

He's become more prominent because he's all but announced for president, ... That feeds into his legislative importance. He's a sleeper. ... Look at the list of who's running. None of them are purists except for Brownback.

It's good news for Tester and it's good news for Burns.

He has a great deal at risk. He is coming up for re-election in 2007. This is his last, best chance to recover.

It should have been a blow-away. It wasn't just any congressional race ? it was a race during Bush's summer of sorrow and it came in a state that was ground zero for '04 and possibly will be for '08.

He is obviously a single-issue candidate, and they do not do terribly well in the presidential process.

It's been a very successful term. It's hard to describe it any other way. He came in at a tough time. There was no money. The Republicans had just taken a landslide in the legislature. Things didn't look good. But he worked through the problems and ended up triumphant. It's a storybook ending. I didn't see that coming. Frequently these businessmen governors who've never been elected to anything before, flop. So he's the exception.

He doesn't instinctively know what he should do in these circumstances.