I was the guy that told Bill Clinton he was going to win. I had gotten the final polling numbers. He had a comfortable lead. He was not going to lose.

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I mean, for all of his faults and the troubles in his marriage, Bill Clinton is still married to a girl he met in the library 25 years ago at school. Can we say that about many of our other leaders today in America, including on the right wing?

Politics is show business for ugly people.

Never interrupt your opponent when he's destroying himself.

There's the great line: the definition of a liberal is someone who's afraid to take their own side in a fight. And that's my problem with my fellow liberals.

I grew up in Tom DeLay's district.

It seems to me the American people never really forgave the Democrats for being right about Vietnam.

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Our goal is to win the conference championship and go to the playoff and win the national championship and we recruit with that attitude.

There's always the motivation of wanting to win. Everybody has that. But a champion needs, in his attitude, a motivation above and beyond winning.

I've never run into a guy who could win at the top level in anything today and didn't have the right attitude, didn't give it everything he had, at least while he was doing it; wasn't prepared and didn't have the whole program worked out.

We've all lived through something horrific, but the strength and beauty and knowledge that we're going to win eventually is what keeps me going.

If there were an Oscar for best theatrical performance by a country, Israel would win every year. It's a country based on theater. It's a lunatic state - completely insane.

You're not obligated to win. You're obligated to keep trying to do the best you can every day.