Peter Hart Quotes (16 Quotes)

The beauty is that Bill Clinton can frame the race better than anyone else. But against that, it makes the moral issue that much more important, and Al Gore wants to make this about economic issues.

To the degree that he is the consoler and healer of the nation, it helps.

That has changed dramatically. People have had the chance to explore what gaming means to their community.

I think that the difficulty for Al Gore is that he started with the sense that the nomination was coming his way, that major opponents like (House Minority Leader) Dick Gephardt and (Nebraska Sen.) Bob Kerrey dropped out. I don't think he realized how for

There is the only pure negative. That is the concern about addiction and people losing too much money, ... we've got a problem and we are going to tackle it.

It all feeds into the public's perception that whatever is going on, there is a strong whiff of illegality.

Al Gore has lined up the constituencies. The women, the unions, the minorities, all of the important constituencies. The question is Will Bill Bradley have a message that is strong enough to carry him

At this point in the administration there's one thing that counts, and it's the war in Iraq.

Fifteen years ago, the negative was huge. They talked about organized crime. They talked about how gambling would attract prostitution. It would bring in the wrong kinds of tourists. Now it is better than 2-to-1 on the positive side.

In one case he took the nation in his hands and took the reins of government and gave us a sense of action. Katrina has been just the opposite. It has been a vacuum of leadership and a failure to take the nation and the people of the Gulf in his arms.

I think Al Gore really needs to find his voice, and I think he needs to find his own style. I think, up to this stage, he hasn't found that.

Voters can have on the equivalent of five different pairs of glasses when they judge a policy proposal.

It comes down to the familiar debate about whether reporters are ignoring the good news.

This race has gone from being one-sided to competitive. I think we make a mistake to think that Al Gore is being routed out of this campaign. He's still in the lead and he's the formidable candidate.

I can think of nothing that would galvanize and anger a wide segment of the American public more than overturning Roe v. Wade . I can't think of another issue that would generate as much intensity not only from the active left and feminists, but also from a lot of people in the middle.

There's a middle group of about 17 percent who like him professionally and don't like him personally. Those are the people who are going to spell a major difference.