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We think what we’re seeing is an elaborate campaign, directed by Hillary, to lock down the 2016 nomination and solidify her image as a leader. But in reality, this isn’t emanating from Clinton, and it has nothing to do with voters. What we’re really looking at is a campaign orchestrated by nervous Democrats and aimed at persuading Clinton herself.
— Matt Bai, writing for Yahoo News.
Having run the campaign that beat her last time, and we barely beat her, she’s in a much stronger position than she was then.
— David Plouffe, quoted by The Hill, suggesting Hillary Clinton will be an even more formidable presidential candidate than she was in 2008.
Thirty days in the hospital? And when she reappears, she’s wearing glasses that are only for people who have traumatic brain injury? We need to know what’s up with that.
— Karl Rove, suggesting that Hillary Clinton suffered brain damage from a fall in December 2012, the New York Post reports.
You seem to be convinced that Mrs. Clinton’s running. I like to say I’m the only person… the only last person in Washington who’d be willing to take some bet that she might not run.
— Former Clinton White House press secretary Mike McCurry, in an interview with Real Clear Politics.
We’ve got to rein in what has become an almost article of faith that anybody can have a gun anywhere, anytime. And I don’t believe that is in the best interest of the vast majority of people.
— Hillary Clinton, delivering harsh criticism of gun culture in America and denouncing the idea that “anybody can have a gun, anywhere, at any time,” the Wall Street Journal reports.
The air of inevitability surrounding Hillary Clinton is unlike anything we’ve ever seen – since 2008, that is — when she was also considered inevitable. Then a first-term Senator from Illinois came along, and we know how that story ended.
— Gwen Ifill, anchor on the PBS Newshour, in a blog post titled, “Beware The Clickbait (Or Why There’s Always More To The Story), which is pretty self-explanatory.
I see Hillary Clinton as an old-world model, in the sense that she’s a pro-surveillance-state, pro-war Democrat… I could see that if you had a Republican that’s a little more reluctant for war, more protective of privacy, that you could have a complete transformation, where people completely switch places.
— Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY), quoted by Fortune.
The president has made some tough decisions. But it’s been a mixed record, and the concern is, the president defining what America’s role in the world is in the 21st century hasn’t happened. Hopefully, he’ll do it and certainly, she would.
— Former CIA Director Leon Panetta, telling the New York Times that President Obama had a “mixed record” on making difficult national security decisions and suggested that Hillary Clinton would be better.
I know from experience that the best way to have the United States be a mediator is for the President himself to be deeply involved. In this occasion, when Secretary Clinton was Secretary of State, she took very little action to bring about peace.
— Jimmy Carter, taking a shot at Hillary Clinton and her tenure as the nation’s top diplomat in an interview with Time.
One thing that everyone — those who want Clinton to run and those who don’t — agrees on is that she has simply not made up her mind on the race yet and likely won’t for some time. (Our guess for an announcement about her future? Around this time next year.) So, what happens if she decides not to run? In a word: Chaos.
— Chris Cillizza, on his Washington Post blog, The Fix.
