Hank Sheinkopf Quotations

She's challenged him unlike any other challenger ever has. There's no question she's exceeded expectations. Could this be a close election?

She's certainly much more sexy than John Spencer is. She's got a better story.

She needs to spend a lot of time in portions of the state who match the profile of those in the Midwest, which she will need if she runs for president in 2008. If she can win them over in New York, she can win them over in Ohio.

She needs to do better with white Catholic men from the Midwest.

No fabricated resume can equal Mark Green's lifelong record of defending New Yorkers and working as the people's lawyer.

Bush is not on the ballot, Bloomberg is, ... People think he's done a good job.

He showed himself to be a wartime leader. He rallied the people and he didn't buckle.

It certainly surprises people that the governor and his wife and others would use that kind of language. It doesn't help him with Republican voters. He comes across as just another New York politician who doesn't share their values.

Plan to see Sen. Clinton - post-2006 - spending a lot of time in the Midwest.

Michael Bloomberg wants to be a stimulator and a provider and to leave a city that has major development ongoing. It's business, business and business. He wants to force development and in doing so help the private sector in creating jobs.

Using 'it could be great' hits the so-what problem, because it doesn't convey a sense of urgency for voters to do anything. There's no emotional potency. But that's the story of the Ferrer campaign.

This would also be consistent with a strategy designed to run up high vote totals in New York in areas of the state where the right will try to tell people that she cannot perform well.

What it says is that in many ways Hillary Clinton is still a polarizing figure.

Weiner is showing he can't be pushed around and that's a fine thing, but Kruger ... tries to settle all scores behind the scenes. That's the way politics works in that part of Brooklyn.

Andy Cuomo can't win on an even playing field because he is not qualified for this office. That's why he is dependent on a single powerful union.

Presidents of the United States don't allow themselves to be pushed around.

This is another clear signal that George Pataki is positioning himself on the national stage to run for president.

This is the first election in New York City history where the majority is minority.

It's a continuation of the destruction of the Republican Party on Long Island - once in control of everything and now mostly in control of nothing.

It's normal for candidates to try to get their financial houses in order before announcing.

It's tactically smart. He knows he's not going to get on the ballot through the convention and he doesn't want to give it any credibility.

It's a lot of money. She has a reputation; she commanded a high price. But this is not a presidential campaign. A typical amount is $12,000 to $15,000 for a campaign manager. For a consultant to do specific tasks, a lot less.

It's another way to fuel speculation, to see what the interest levels are. It's another step on the road to a formal declaration.

stinging rebuke of the incumbent. What it tells you is that the majority of Brooklyn prefer a change.

It's an attempt to get her core fund-raising base energized and prepared for what will be a very serious attack to stop her from being president.

Snyder waged a tough campaign. But the edge usually goes to the incumbent in elections.

The fact that you do this kind of race gets you tremendous cachet because it's very hard to do. You can expect Anthony Weiner to loom large in city politics for some time to come.

Incumbents are re-elected the vast majority of the time, so a challenger like Freddy needs an overwhelming emotion argument in his ads and on the street for why the mayor should be fired. Freddy never went negative, but he had nothing to go positive with, either.

Clearly, what he did at D.M.I. was to prepare for a mayoral run, and to sound out themes of a mayoral run, ... That's not unheard of, for people to find a sinecure while seeking public office.

His job is to keep out of her view, and her job is to go after him. By not engaging her, she appears shrill, a voice screaming in the wilderness. It's tactically smart.

He's an easy target. New Yorkers are centrist by nature. One has to presume Senator Clinton is a candidate for president and the strategic imperative here (in 2006) is to pile up big numbers.

The mailing issue injured him tremendously. Because while he was beginning to get some voter recognition, it became more negative than not. It wasn't helpful.

The heavens continue to smile on Eliot Spitzer.

The difference is, in New York state certainly, President Clinton has big numbers. In New York state, no one knows who Al Pirro is and, frankly, very few people know who Jeanine Pirro is.