Doug Muzzio Quotes (13 Quotes)


    What does he get out of it He ceases to be irrelevant. There's chest thumping here. He's saying, 'I'm not irrelevant.' He's in the news. He's dominating the agenda.

    He needs to throw the mayor off balance so people will look unfavorably at the mayor. He's got to get under the mayor's skin.

    I think voters are expecting a competent mayor, somebody who can get things done and get them done fairly. We're in sort of a post-party politics period here, where the traditional tribal politics are being replaced by a competency model.

    You don't throw out a mayor who's got a decent-to-good record. You certainly don't throw him out in favor of an opponent who's got a less-than-compelling message.

    What this says is that the Democratic Party is not a fully functioning party. It means that it has lost its base and some sense of its direction. One of the things that's going on here is a lot of soul searching. . . . There are discussions of the old tribal politics being replaced by competence and performance politics.


    The mayor took his pain early on. Tax increases were substantial and hurtful, but they hurt early on, and he had time to recover.

    They haven't given any Democrats any oxygen at all. It's total war it's like Grant in the Civil War - you attack them at all points and at all times.

    It's mind-blowing. She is raising money at a presidential level.

    To a great extent, Giuliani is still St. Rudy. He's still riding high on 911, though when it comes down to it, he's going to have a tough time in the Republican primaries as a pro-gun-control, pro-gay rights, pro-abortion rights candidate.

    I'd rather go to dinner with Rudy, wouldn't you Rudy has more personality.

    In the transit strike and even before that, he's come across as a feisty fighter, a real mayor of the people.

    They're not giving Freddy a breath. They're not giving him one news cycle. They step on every one of his stories.

    They brought him up from the minors, and it doesn't look like he can play in the majors yet.


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