Derek Walker Quotes (10 Quotes)

I consider it to be an in-kind contribution, ... is to associate Ehrlich with one of the most popular and enduring institutions in the city of Baltimore.

It's a thinly disguised campaign ad. It certainly amounts to a significant in-kind contribution to the governor's campaign.

Derek Walker, a spokesman for the Maryland Democratic Party, said the episode had nothing to do with the party's view of a Steele candidacy. This is a one-time stupid mistake by a couple of young people who were willing to take responsibility immediately, ... That's what this is about.

This is the first Steele-for-Senate campaign ad, as far as I'm concerned. It's clear that the exploratory committee is designed to find new and innovative ways to waste taxpayer money to promote the lieutenant governor.

He's spending like a drunken sailor, and he's now taking what are essentially routine staff-issued documents and claiming they're legislative proposals on the table. It's another hypocritical attempt to distort his own record and make Marylanders forget about his awful record. Voters are smarter than that.

He's a rubber stamp for the national Republican agenda. That's going to be the fundamental choice in this campaign a person who's going to align themselves with President Bush or a man or woman who's going to represent Marylanders.

It's hard to legislate, because public officials do have a legitimate role in bringing important issues to the community. This really involves personal judgment. In this case, it's a hollow attempt to improve Steele's image.

That is going to hurt him substantially. I think he's caught between a rock and a hard place.

Michael Steele is an important figure in African-American history in Maryland. There is no question about it.

Three and a half years to suggest nothing but further study For an issue he claims to care so deeply about, there's been a startling lack of principled action.