24 Quotes by Ross Baker

So long as he is a free man, still a member of the House and participating in the conference, his influence is going to remain considerable.

She's the original stealth candidate. It was a shrewd choice for Bush. If you can't ram somebody through who's got a higher profile, you do an end run around the opposition.

One of the things that members strive to do, and in large measure are successful, is to achieve a situation that voters do in fact look at them as people who do good things for the district.

He has the nimbleness and fancy footwork of a prima ballerina.

He enjoys very strong support there. His problem is with swing voters.

He obviously has to offer some words of reassuring to people on Medicare who've been baffled by the prescription drug program and encourage them to hang in.

His timing, I think, was unfortunate. A junior senator in the minority party doesn't get much of an opportunity to shine.

There is an unspoken but enormously wide gap between the views of Democrats in Washington and Democrats in the country on Iraq.

It created a sense of irresoluteness on the part of the administration.