Tim Russert Quotes (41 Quotes)

What it means is there's a trend toward the Democrats. They (Democrats) don't have an alternative proposal - sometimes nothing's a real cool hand.

How troubling is that to you, that only 2 percent of African-Americans say that George Bush is doing a good job as president

Joe Biden, the Democrat from Delaware, says there are about 3,000 in his estimation, 3,000, Iraqi security forces. After 28 months in the war, what is your sense How many Iraqi troops are there, and when will there be enough Iraqi troops so Americans can

She can laugh at the mayor.

Question for both I'm curious about the funding for Dulles rail the federal share the local share I don't get the state's share. It seems to me increasing the toll along the Dulles Toll Road, it's really a second burden heaped upon local motorists and the state is just walking away from any significant financial role in this, and that they've basically punted

The nation's and the world's eyes have been on Hurricane Katrina, and the result of that as governor, what would be your precise evacuation plan for Northern Virginia, and please take into mind the number of people who live below the poverty line, the number of households that do not own automobiles who live in this area.

Americans for Rice, a group that hopes to draft Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice as a presidential candidate in 2008, has paid for a 60-second ad to run in Des Moines, Iowa, on Tuesday night during ABC's 'Commander in Chief,' a new show about a female president of the United States. Iowa, of course, traditionally holds the first presidential contest, a caucus system. The same ad appeared in New Hampshire...during the Sept. 27 broadcast of 'Commander in Chief.' New Hampshire, of course, traditionally holds the first presidential primary.

bureaucracy has committed murder here in New Orleans.

Mr. Kilgore, you have said that even though you opposed Governor Warner's signature issue, you're very much like Mark Warner. A very serious question is your management and leadership style more like Mark Warner or George Bush

That is exactly what I tried to do. It's a delicate balance. You want to ask the right questions, the right follow-up, but you also have to realize that you could easily spend the entire hour on one subject.

When you take Iraq and Katrina, it raises a lot of questions about the execution of the war and also dealing with hurricanes. How does the president climb his way out His people will tell you we'll do it a yard at a time.

The primary responsibility of the media is accountability of government, whether it's about lying under oath, which upset Democrats, or the mismanagement of responding to a hurricane, which happens to upset Republicans.

to suggest that we need several hundred thousand troops there after military operations cease, after the conflict ends, I don't think is accurate. I think that's an overstatement.

America has just begun the 21st century. if you could select two items for a time capsule that best represents America in the 21st Century. what would they be

Did you know that Ambassador Wilson's wife works at the C. I. A.

Should we freeze or postpone prospective tax cuts and avoid any new tax cuts until we are sure we have the money to pay for the war on terrorism and the war in Iraq.

If, God forbid, a natural disaster or another terrorist attack struck Northern Virginia for both candidates, Mr. Kilgore first would you be willing to contemplate raising taxes to help prepare for evacuation and for recovery.

a vast right-wing conspiracy.

I wouldn't want to attach a time limit to it, but it includes things like making sure there's potable water, making sure there's a 911 system in place, telephone, a means to notify people there is an approaching storm so you can evacuate it with the weakened levee situation,

Looking at the high cost of occupation in Iraq and the needs we have in this country, would it not have been better to have smaller tax cuts in order to keep down the deficits.

Somebody wants to nitpick a man's tragic loss of a mother ... are you kidding

Mr. Kilgore, you have said that you would eliminate abortion have exceptions for rape, incest, and life of mother what would happen, under Governor Kilgore, to a doctor and a woman who underwent an abortion if in fact, your scenario became law.

We're an optimistic people, but something is amiss. People feel it, and I think it partly revolves around the war.

may surprise some people.

If your analysis is not correct, and we're not treated as liberators but as conquerors, and the Iraqis begin to resist, particularly in Baghdad, do you think the American people are prepared for a long, costly, and bloody battle with significant American casualties.

It's an affirmation of the history of Meet the Press.

I cannot find a pollster who can remember any president ever getting just two percent approval from African-Americans.

Those who could not get out were the poor, who rely on public buses to get out Your website says that your department assumes primary responsibility for a national disaster - if you knew a hurricane three storm was coming, why were buses, trains, planes ... provided on Friday, Saturday, Sunday to evacuate people before the storm

There are a lot of issues in politics you can spin on. You can spin on tax cuts and spin on Social Security and he said-she said this view, that view right-left-center. You can't spin on this. People see it. They feel it. They smell it. And you can't say something that conflicts with the harsh reality of what happened there.

We had Wal-Mart deliver three trucks of water, ... FEMA turned them back. They said we didn't need them. We had 1,000 gallons of diesel fuel on a vessel docked in my parish. The Coast Guard said, 'Come and get the fuel right away.' When we got there with our trucks, they got a word. 'FEMA says don't give you the fuel.'

Whatever the criticisms and the after-action report may be about what was right and what was wrong looking back, what would be a horrible tragedy would be to distract ourselves from avoiding further problems because we're spending time talking about problems that have already occurred,

The Bills, I believe, have a very good future if this agreement can be worked out, thoroughly discussed, and everything is open.

We now have five Catholics on the Supreme Court. Must they vote to overturn Roe v. Wade

Northern Virginia has a large immigrant population, many of whom help fill the severe labor shortage in blue collar jobs like construction and landscaping. Do you support using public money to build a day laborer site like Herndon did

Of course, if he had a wife he would say, 'Honey, you're lucky to have me.'

four years of Latin.

How can the Republican Speaker of the House, tolerate such spending, such deficits.

Meet the Press ... But there has been no weapons of mass destruction.

there was a perception created of incompetence, some even said callousness and he needs to replace it with compassion.

Hey, do you know that all the reporters know that Mr. Wilson's wife works at the CIA

Clearly the special counsel has made a judgment, ... that when taking the comments and statements of Matt Cooper and Judy Miller and myself as opposed to Scooter Libby, he has decided that Mr. Libby was not telling the truth.