George Stephanopoulos Quotes (21 Quotes)


    In return for the privilege of influencing issues you care about, in return for the rush of power and reflected glory, you defend the boss - fiercely, unapologetically, giving no ground.

    start thinking about the country instead of trying to save his marriage and his own fanny. . . Self-indulgence has been in the saddle too long and is taking him over a cliff.

    Pat Robertson claimed an out-of-control liberal judiciary is the worst threat America has faced in 400 years - worse than Nazi Germany, Japan, and the Civil War. Yes, I really believe that, ... I think they are destroying the fabric that holds our nation together.

    There has been an awful lot of time and money spent looking at the president over the last four years The American people saw through those investigations. They voted for the president. And despite all of this time and attention, nothing has turned up because the president and the first lady did nothing wrong.

    Four years in the White House and two presidential campaigns is an awful long time. In politics, every year in the White House is like dog years, six years off your life.


    The longer the president goes without telling his side of the story, the more unease there will be in the public.



    Democrats had a secret meeting in Reid's office on Halloween night at 615 and they hatched this plot, ... They said the only way they could get this investigation going was to do it in secret. They say they've been frustrated for a year and a half in getting this investigation into whether the administration twisted the intelligence and they're making no apologies whatsoever for it.

    Part of the reason voter turnout has dropped is that Washington and politics have felt more alien to people, ... People have felt more removed from the political system and I think that that is unfortunate, because I don't believe it's true. The fact is that every Decision does have an impact.


    I didn't believe Clinton, and I couldn't buy the party line -- which meant I was the enemy now, ... I didn't think I was a hypocrite, because my defense of Clinton against past bimbo eruptions had been predicated on my belief that he wouldn't create new ones ... For several years, I had served as Clinton's character witness. Now I felt like a dupe.

    For the president to resign now would be wrong. President Clinton may have debased himself with his behavior, but we shouldn't debase the office with an impulsive overreaction.

    The Clinton paradox: How could a president so intelligent, so compassionate, so public-spirited and so conscious of his place in history act in such a stupid, selfish and self-destructive manner?

    It's going to be a long, hot summer. The hotter it gets in Baghdad, the hotter it will get in D.C.

    You would have to say his number one accomplishment has been to inspire a sense of confidence in the country. That confidence, that optimism, not only gives President Obama a political cushion, but it could have a real world economic impact.

    No question. It is a big blow because he is such a big player. He solidified the Republican majority. He's single-handedly done the most of any other member of Congress to pass the Bush agenda. And he's created this network of loyal Republican lobbyists. More than 200 corporations have hired DeLay staffers. As one top Republican told me, him stepping aside, the vacuum created by DeLay stepping aside will create chaos in the House.

    I'm not saying that spending on wars and terrorism is a bad thing,'' Armstrong said in an interview on ABC's

    What I tried to do is write an honest book, and I think it is a fair book that showed all sides of the Clintons, of the White House at that time, and not really try to make too many hard judgments, ... This Week.


    You've got so many different questions on so many different fronts, all in an environment where the U.S. is supposed to turn over power in a few weeks and all of it coming off the deadliest month since the war began. There would be something wrong if it weren't getting this much coverage.


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