For national Republicans, this 2006 race is really about the presidency, but I don't think that's the case for the people of New York. Clinton is so popular that Pirro can't say, 'She hasn't done a great job for New York.' The only thing you can say is, 'She can't continue doing a great job forever.' Talking about 2008 will help with fund-raising, but it's a pretty weak political argument.

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As part of probably the strongest working team that's existed in decades as president and vice president --Al Gore has not been a ceremonial vice president-- and I think he's going to pick a working partner.

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We have ceded the small business arena far, far too much to the Republican Party. This is a tremendous missed opportunity for the Democrats. Small businesses are the ultimate little guy.

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It's going to be about what did you do since you voted for the war.

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[Women are] really demanding more flexibility in the workplace. Control is the new currency.... Forty-six percent of women want to start their own small businesses.

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People are ... particularly risk-averse in bad times. It would be much easier, ironically, to elect a woman president when the economy is good and we weren't at war.

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The mood of the public and the errors of the administration really open up tremendous opportunities.

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The conventional wisdom was that Katrina was catalytic to these attitudes about poverty, ... But these attitudes were evident before Katrina.

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