Harold Ickes Quotes (15 Quotes)

It's going to be a strong fight. It's going to be based on issues, education, health care, working families.

The left hand probably didn't know what the right had was doing on some of the subpoenas and also they've had so many subpoenas in the White House and so many document requests, and they've had to go through so many documents it's not unusual to have overlooked something,

We wanted to shut down the system and get our candidate out early. If ever there was a foundering ship that was it. The longer we went on, the lower we went down in the polls. If we'd had a year we'd have been down around zero.

I'm not going to speak for the people of New York. They'll hear the issues and make up their minds in November.

That great, overgrown lummox of a Colonel McCormick, mediocre in ability, less than average in brains and a damn physical coward in spite of his size, sitting in the tower of the Tribune building with his guards protecting him while he squirts sewage at men whom he happens to dislike.

Defenders say she can easily navigate from past to future. I would quote her husband who often said -- and it's absolutely a truism -- that people vote the future, not the past, ... Rhetorically she will invoke the halcyon days of the 1990s. The fact is she knows that people are concerned very much on the future and that she very much has to address that.

He had more stamina than I will ever have. He came in with Roosevelt in 1932 and served two years under Harry Truman and they had a falling out, and my father, I think, quit about two minutes before Harry Truman fired him,

I think he's an extraordinarily upstanding and ethical guy, ... And he's a passionate Democrat.

This is coming from Mr. Altman's diary. I don't remember it, but I will say to you that I wouldn't want anybody poking around in 20 years of my life.

STRAUSS OK. Exhibit 1002 is an e-mail from Karen Hancox, who's the deputy political director in the White House, to Kimberly Tilley, the vice president's director of scheduling. It's cc'd to me. And the subject is DNC trips. And it says, per Harold, ... He wants to proceed with the DNC request for the VP trips in April. Please let me know if you have any questions.

People are really beginning to understand how radical it is. It's radical with a smile and compassion as it's headline, but it is not compassionate,

Hillary has been making her case to the people of New York for the past year. She's been in all 62 counties. She's been talking in a positive way about a series of issues education, health care, working families and that's how she's going to continue to conduct her race. But we expect to have a hard-fought race.

This smacks of Gestapo. ... This outstrips McCarthyism. ...Forget chilling effect, this is deep freeze.

The trouble with Senator Long is that he is suffering from halitosis of the intellect. That's presuming Senator Long has an intellect.

tarnish the Democratic Party in general, and President Clinton, and more pointedly, Vice President Gore.