Tony Fabrizio Quotes (13 Quotes)

There's always going to be some type of scandal. It's just the nature of people. When you have so much at stake, people are going to use anything in their power to try to win. That's what this is all about.

That can hurt Republicans in very, very close races. If there is no enthusiasm, or if the backbone of the street organization feels disenfranchised or disillusioned, there is no reason for them to go out and do anything.

For the president to promote his agenda, he has to use Congress to move forward and change the subject. But it is difficult to get out of the hole that you dug when in fact your allies are also running for the hills.

These numbers are scary. We've lost every advantage we've ever had. The good news is Democrats don't have much of a plan. The bad news is they may not need one.

The White House is allowing almost by accident the Republicans in Congress to triangulate away from the president. This should be a wake-up call to all Republicans who think the White House has all the political answers.

These are numbers the White House should take notice of when they are looking at the conservative base.

The fact that Weld is the leading contender speaks volumes about the state of the New York GOP. How can there be no homegrown contender groomed and prepared to take on someone like Spitzer The need for them to call on a former Governor of Massachusetts, a guy to the left of Pataki, when they know all too well that they are toast this time around if they don't field someone acceptable to conservatives is just amazing.

He has no political capital. Slowly but surely it's been unraveling. There's been a direct correlation between the trajectory of his approval numbers and the -- I don't want to call it disloyalty -- the independence on the part of the Republicans in Congress.

It could make the difference between winning and losing in a number of congressional districts.

The tail is wagging the dog. While the conservative leadership feels Bush is betraying them, the average rank and file conservative doesn't feel that way.

White suburban voters who voted for George Bush are disaffected now. Would I rather be talking about immigration reform with these voters or the war Immigration reform or gasoline prices Sometimes, in order to avoid or avert the tidal wave, you have to do things that short-term make a little more sense than they do in the long term.

There is a growing, deep-seated discontentment and pessimism about the direction of the country.

If the issue were Social Security or the budget, you could change the way you talked about it. The problem is that the issue that has become the centerpiece of Bush's presidency is beyond their control. The first rule of crisis management is, when you're in a hole, stop digging. But the White House isn't holding the shovel, and the hole is being dug for them.