Larry Sabato Congress Quotations

To have a chance, Lucas must both demonstrate he still has the fire in the belly to serve in Congress and succeed in making this race as much of a personal popularity contest as it can be. Still, you can bet Davis will seek to tie his opponent to his party label at every turn, and we give the freshman Republican an early leg up.

It's a matter of getting people excited and out to vote. Whether the Congress passes a lot of legislation is a separate issue. . . . They can get the electoral issues done just by debating some of the issues.

Most seats in Congress are relatively safe this year. But they are not safe from a tsunami.

Very worried, ... They really are in danger of losing a substantial number of seats in Congress and, more importantly, key governorships in 2006.

It demonstrated to the public for the first time that Bush no longer controls his own party in Congress. That's a mark of leadership that people do pay attention to.

The Congress reads the polls; they know that the president is not where he was once and they're on the ballot next November.

There's no room on the agenda, there's no room in Congress and there's no room politically.

What has this session of Congress accomplished? I'm sure they can give me a list of minor technical bills but on the big things they have failed.

It's almost been contempt of Congress -- not legal contempt of Congress, but contempt of Congress by baseball, ... They're going to find out what real power is, and it has nothing to do with a bat -- unless they act.