Richard Murray Quotations

We're really excited about it. We're also encouraged by the number of competitors who've signed up. So long as the weather holds up, we should have a great day.

Occasionally, someone has run against DeLay. But I don't recall any attention being paid, and I don't think the congressman took the challenge seriously. This is the first primary where he has had to extend himself.

Right now, Lampson's cash on hand reflects the fact that he can hoard his money.

He got a fair amount of what he asked for out of this session. He'll be able to take the tax cut and wave it across Iowa and New Hampshire in Steve Forbes' face.

There is huge irony here. Six Democrats in Congress were eliminated, but the seventh victim may turnout to be the author of the plan.

I think Tom Campbell has the potential to develop into a serious candidate and a threat to the incumbent. He comes across as a real straight-arrow Boy Scout type, which plays well against an embattled candidate.

There is little prospect of receiving any significant payments against the fees outstanding.

While we are not unique in this respect, we are still concerned that the growth of earlier years has not been maintained.

There could be some negatives over time. It's a high-wire act and no American city lately has absorbed anywhere near this number of people so quickly,

We have done everything possible to persuade the player to stay but there is little point in keeping a player when he is so determined to leave. We also have to take account of the effect on all the other players at the club who are committed to us and what we are trying to achieve here.

At the end of the day, both these candidates are going to have plenty of money. It's going to be the least of their worries.

It would be huge news if he didn't support Perry. It's what you expected, and it will be marginally helpful for Perry. But it's only news if the president is breaking with someone from his own party.

DeLay is in trouble. The primary is no sure thing and the general election is even more dangerous.

DeLay is benefited by a short campaign season because his challengers are unknown.

You're coming into a state that has a deserved reputation for being low-tax and low-service. If you try to be generous to your new residents, some of the poor folks here are going to notice and are going to start raising Cain.

There's a real chance, it's not the most likely chance, but there's a real possibility that that's the way the race could play out.

Democrats need the investigation to keep producing DeLay stories to keep the pot boiling.

As a club, our position remains the same as ever - we do not want him to go, but if it is offered to him, and he wants to take it, we will not stand in his way.

Initially there will be this wave of good feeling. If it drags on, there are going to be some crimes and other things that come with new residents.

Clearly in 2004 he was an underperformer. He's had some further erosion.

I don't see much evidence of overall planning and guidance.

A Hispanic candidate like Sanchez has to work much harder than Lee Brown does. Lee Brown will have 97 percent of the Black voters behind him. He just has to turn them out.