24 Quotes by Ross Baker

You can have a scintillating personality, a great resume; unless you're sitting on a very healthy treasury, they are going to look elsewhere. It is of critical importance. You can never do it too early. It marks you as a competitor.

The payoffs are enormous. If you pay a lobbyist a few hundred thousand dollars, or even millions of dollars, it's pocket change compared to what you can make with a casino.

The president may have to do with the State of the Union address something that rarely gets done with State of the Union addresses - and that is to be inspirational.

While the subject matter doesn't have an impact on the daily concerns of people in Ewing Township, chairmanships give you bargaining power with members of other committees. There is a prestige factor involved. You become a part of a select group of House leaders.

Corzine is seen as being as clean as a hound's tooth. It tarnishes him a little bit, but I don't think it's the kind of thing that will be decisive in the campaign.

There's a strange minuet going on. In some ways, even the activists feel they could do a lot worse than Roberts, but they can't say it. They have to put up some kind of fight.

It's helpful for a member to be able to embrace a president. If not, they're very much alone.

It's a very pointed message in a very public forum to someone about to assume the most important seat on the court, ... Whether he heeds it or not, Roberts can't be indifferent that the Senate is upset about the Supreme Court usurping the functions of Congress, second guessing them, and belittling their reasoning.

It's a very ominous sign for his leadership. Frankly, I'm sort of astonished that it hasn't happened before now, but it's a great tribute to either their loyalty to Tom DeLay or their fear of him.