37 Quotes by Norman Ornstein

There's no question that it will hurt him and it will hurt him significantly. He's still getting the solid support from his base. The question now is whether his performance with the hurricane begins to affect his performance with his base.

It would have gone past us as just one of those moments where each side was teeing off against the other. But that event punctuated things, and I do think it made a difference in the coverage of the hearings.

It was very significant two years ago when Greenspan endorsed the first Bush tax cut plan. So his basically lukewarm attitude now, saying that some of these ideas are good things in principle, but not at the expense of large deficits, has to weigh heavily on those moderate Republicans.

This is a major fork in the road for him.

There's a sense that there is a culture of cronyism and corruption and incompetence

It's a self-perpetuating system involving interests, members of Congress, people in the executive branch and patronage positions and so on.

It's a disaster for DeLay. They've not only formally started the process, but this is a public petition.

It's the most expansive vision of the executive power of a president in our lifetime. To suggest that (Congress has) given him a blanket authority to do what he has done is a vast stretch.

I'm sure that he's growing a little tired of members taking what he believes are gratuitous personal shots at him,