Ed Rollins Quotes (24 Quotes)

be extremely destructive if for some reason they change the rules and if there is not the opportunity to filibuster.

By the time you get to year six, there's never a break . . . and you get tired. There's always a crisis. It wears you down. This has been a White House that hasn't really had much change at all. There is a fatigue factor that builds up. You sometimes don't see the crisis approaching. You're not as on guard as you once were.

If he is the nominee of this party, there are no money people anywhere that are going to come.

The eruption of the flag controversy is a glaring symptom of a distressing change in American politics over the past decade the way that pit-bull negative ads have led to simplistic, visceral posturing by candidates at the expense of more substantive approaches to real problems. It's a good issue to define your opponent, ... If your opponent is for flag burning, he's got to go through a very sophisticated explanation.

There's always twenty or thirty Republicans or twenty or thirty Democrats that sort of move away from the party line, so you've got to make sure that they are all happy. It's gonna be real tough, it's gonna be real tough.

From my perspective, if getting 24 percent of the vote is a victory, than we probably need a new party chairman and we probably need a new thought process.

We're trying to change that. I think from our perspective we want a primary and at the end of the day, if he (Spencer) thinks he's such a great candidate, he should want a primary, too.

People don't view him as a Republican or Democrat, and he has the resources to run without having to worry about funding.

a lot of these Republicans have never been in the minority and a lot of them have come up through the House and not started as senators, so they don't give it quite the same respect that has been there in the past.

I do not think it is a lasting issue. I think it is just a series of things that this administration has done that makes it look like they are not always forthcoming.

My advice was that it was going to be very difficult, but at the end of the day, I don't tell candidates what to do.

We've got to win them one at a time.

To what do you attribute the victory of Todd-Whitman,

I wasn't the first one out the door. I was the last one out the door and I did everything I could to hold it together.

Someone like Adam Goodman, who knows Florida and is better than anybody in the business, wasn't being appreciated. We're professionals. We're doing the best we can, but if she doesn't want to take the advice, fine. We'll move on.

If this was a European parliamentary system, it would have been a vote of no-confidence.

Clearly this was Dick Morris' day in the sun. And if he would have been careful and obviously not been quite as bravado to his pillow mate, the reality is he could have had a very lucrative career in the future.

Either we bog down Hillary Clinton in 2006, in New York, or we give Hillary a free pass, let her build up chips around the country by helping other candidates, and walk out of New York with a big win and become unstoppable for 2008. Republicans have to get serious about a challenger to Hillary right now.

I wish them well. My sense is these people are more than adequate to run a proper campaign.

The country has given up on him. It's too late to turn it around.

I'm working on the campaign right now.

It would be a very big mistake to think John Spencer - no offense to John, who I guess was a decent enough mayor - to move him to a level of where anyone is going to take him seriously as a U.S. Senate candidate. Unfortunately, John Spencer wouldn't know which side of the Capitol the U.S. Senate meets.

Katherine wasn't listening to us and didn't agree on the direction of the campaign.

At the end of the day, we all basically work as a team to help the candidate. None of us are irreplaceable, but Adam probably comes as close as anyone could be.