Bill Schneider Quotations

Where is Gore with women? Just 50 percent, ... Given how badly he is doing with men, and it is very bad, he has got to boost his standing with women.

The Republicans may be better off without an agenda. They don't scare people.

But the economy is good and unemployment is the lowest it's been in 30 years. Polls show a gradual increase since the 1970s in the number of people who say that trade helps rather than hurts the nation's economy.

But the court allows the states to use the estimated numbers ...for drawing the lines within each state to the determine what district every member of Congress and each state legislator represents.

Bush is sinking, Clark is surging. Clark picked exactly the right moment to make his announcement.

If it turns out that George Bush doesn't get elected, once a party has run three times, like the Democrats after 1980, 1984 and 1988, they begin to see the light and say, 'We have to change,' ... Well if the Republicans lose this year ... they are going to be looking at John McCain and saying, 'Maybe he's got something to say, maybe we should listen to him a little bit harder,' and I think he's well-prepared for that outcome.

He had a lot of money, and he had a message, ... But issues are not driving the vote.

He's just going to be talking about the good stuff.

He's got to be very careful. Any event could throw it up in the air.

His whole argument is 'Vote for me, and this is how I'm going to do it. I'm going to beat Bush, and here's how.' That's his whole campaign.

He's going to be given very different treatment than he had in the past, ... celebrity.

He's been focusing entirely on Bush, trying to continue the argument that he can take the fight to Bush,

He is the owner and editor of (a prominent) investment magazine, ... Staying in the race would not be a good investment.

Kerry's line is, 'If this is the best we can do, we're in trouble,'

I think the driving force behind his success was him, his own life story.

I will expect that if she runs for the Senate, she's going to have to enter a new stage as her tenure as first lady. She's going to have to make (the Senate campaign) her top priority, just as Al Gore recently said his top priority is going to be running for president and not being vice president.

I think they get different assignments daily, ... Each day brings something different and new.

I think the message is clear, anyone who tries to turn this into a political issue gets burned.

Some people can have sensational moments at the convention, but don't fool yourself. It's all about John Kerry. They're selling something.

That certainly seemed to be true in Georgia and Minnesota.

Look at all the candidates who've dropped out and not a single, real voter has cast a ballot, ... Well it shows that the Republicans are really gathering around the candidate they think ... is a winner and that's George W. Bush. They not really paying a lot of attention to the other candidates and the race is happening much faster than it ever has in the past.

The problem is it's not very powerful in California or downstate New York, where most of the voters are.

The problem is, there wasn't enough of them,

We've had tax cut proposals, one after the other, which is like saying to the American people, 'Would you like the government to give you some money,' and they're not popular. People are saying we don't need the money, we'd rather do something else with it, we'd rather accomplish some public purposes. Well, Bush is trying to hold the Republican Party together and sell it to a fairly skeptical electorate.

Bill Clinton's 1992 convention is the most successful convention on record. Until that convention, Bill Clinton was running behind. Not only was he running behind, he was running third going into the Democratic convention in 1992. Perot was first, Bush was second, and Clinton seemed hopeless. The convention turned everything around,

Even a month ago, it was clear that he did not want to be considered, ... The governor prevailed on him.

The Supreme Court ruled was that the Constitution requires that the allocation of the number of seats for each state has to be done based on an actual count,

Reagan brought religious conservatives into the Republican Party.

People thought the election still might be so close that he could make a decisive difference in some states, and he very nearly did. But the states weren't quite that close, the way Florida and New Hampshire were in 2000,

Now I think New York is symbolic of the nation's division.

This primary process ended earlier than ever before,

They're selling something. And the convention is the last chance they get to have the undivided attention of a national audience.

It's all Iraq. In 50 years, 2004 will be known as the Iraq election.

Democrats would love to make Mississippi the third state, after South Carolina and Alabama last year, where they've taken the statehouse back from the GOP,

Edwards has had to target states that are economically distressed and areas like upstate New York that are more economically distressed than other places because that's where his message on trade is likely to get the best reception,

It's been very difficult for her to raise money. In fact, it's been very difficult for all the candidates to raise money because most of it, the overwhelming bulk of it, is going to George W. Bush,

Nothing happened. Why not? Well, 2000 -- that's why not. Because they were prepared, knowing what happened in Florida,

It's very easy. Just sell everything, and keep what you might need in a motor home.

They want to be seen as doing something to take care of that issue.

The Conscience of a Liberal, Reclaiming the Compassionate Agenda.

In 1996, Bill Clinton got 54 percent of the women's vote,

He's tough; he'll fight back. He's not Michael Dukakis. He won't just lie there and get beat up. ...

George Bush moved into the lead at that convention and never lost it. How did he do it? He reminded voters that things were better under Ronald Reagan, so why would you ever want to change?

I call them infomercials. They're like a late-night show that's trying to sell you a hair-care product.

I call them infomercials, ... They're like a late-night show that's trying to sell you a hair-care product.

The individuals throughout the United States have experienced massive devastation. We want to rebuild their shattered lives through shelter, support and other needed assistance.

All of the other candidates have the same objective: reshape the contest so they can become Number Two--an alternative to Bush,

The market has essentially shrugged off Intel. Overall, it feels very powerful.