Douglas Muzzio Quotes (13 Quotes)

There is some truth to 'You've come a long way, baby, ... They're fighting it out on the premier media stage in the world.

There is a perception that he's trying to take advantage - and he is. But this is not a social tea, this is hardball politics, this is a bare-knuckle brawl in the real world. You do what you have to within the bounds of the law.

His withdrawal from the race was totally typical of the campaign. He was outside the box. Nobody expected this.

To do it legislatively is a big mistake. It's bad policy to explicitly overturn the judgment of the voters, and it's bad politics because they're going to get hammered, and rightly so.

Total anonymity is not in the mayor's best interest, and so you have this game of the known anonymous giver. But who can blame him He's giving 100 million, so he wants a little credit, but he doesn't want to be seen as trumpeting his giving.

He came in as a liberal Democrat and has governed as a moderate-to-liberal Democrat, and that's why liberal Democrats are mostly satisfied. That's what he is.

I don't think he's going to lose by 38 points, but 20 to 25 percent is certainly within the realm of possibility. You have a mayor with a good record and unlimited resources, which we haven't seen before.

He would make the Bloomberg people work harder, ... know the last three times he sneezed.

Voters understand that turning a bureaucracy like that around is like turning around a battleship,

The difficulty now is going out and raising money. Spending 80 of your time begging for money - it's so debilitating on a candidate.

This is really a comedy of errors and missteps for the candidate, the party, the consultants, everybody. Everybody wants an opponent like these guys.

Bloomberg made a lot of amateur mistakes early on and his personality is not great and sometimes he can't help himself, ... But he's a smart guy and he's matured.

He was edgier than the other candidates and he had a sense of humor. And Weiner proved that he could think outside the box, right down the last move.