Ed Goeas Quotations

If the political environment does not change, the outcome of the 2006 elections becomes increasingly a roll of the dice dependent on how the campaigns are run, party and interest group resources and the intensity of base voters to turn out to vote.

Now it's not a one-sided debate. You have a message getting out there in a much more positive way.

There's probably some question on the Democratic side on whether they'd prefer it to be an unresolved issue.

I think both parties would be hurt if they don't do something.

For Senator McCain, his reputation as a maverick tirelessly working to reform the culture of Washington appears to be exactly what voters want.

People tell us it is a problem, and they want it to be fixed.

From the beginning, this is a campaign I thought she could win. But it's become too tough an environment.

From the Republican standpoint, we need the president to continue using the bully pulpit - in terms of defining the economy, defining the war, defining the war on terrorism. As opposed to that vacuum that was created last year where the Democrats defined the war and oil prices defined the economy.

Running away from the president makes the situation worse.

I was giving her advice, and she wasn't taking it, so I saw no reason for her to continue paying me or for me to waste my time.