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The deck is stacked in their favor. My job is to reshuffle the cards.
— Hillary Clinton, quoted by the New York Times, on the nation’s wealthiest citizens.
Listen, we elected Warren G. Harding. Anybody has a chance. You don’t know who you’re going to be running against. If the other guy falls on his rear end, you could win.
— Roger Ailes, quoted by the Hollywood Reporter, on Sen. Ted Cruz’s chances of securing GOP presidential nomination.
16%
Jeb Bush’s lead over the GOP pack in Iowa, followed by Scott Walker at 13%, Marco Rubio at 12%, Rand Paul at 9%, Ben Carson at 9%, Mike Huckabee at 8% and Ted Cruz at 6%, according to a new Gravis Marketing poll in Iowa.
I was fascinated to hear that, since I haven’t heard a thing about it from him, nor has my staff heard from his staff.
— Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman John McCain (R-AZ), denying reports that “Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) is pushing him to hold hearings exploring whether soldiers should be able to carry concealed guns on military bases,” the Huffington Post reports.
We have a woman running who got fired from a company; now she’s running for president. She got fired from a company in a vicious manner. They eventually walked her out. And she also lost an election, not by a little bit, by a landslide. I won’t use names. Now I turn on the television, and she’s running for president. I don’t know.
— Donald Trump, quoted by the Washington Post, talking about Carly Florina.
I think it’s worth noting that Republicans seem to be talking only about me. I don’t know what they’d talk about if I weren’t in the race.
— Hillary Clinton, quoted by Politico.
$2.6 billion
Amount corporations now spend per year on reported lobbying expenditures – “more than the $2 billion we spend to fund the House ($1.16 billion) and Senate ($820 million),” The Weekly Wonk reports.
My family is a consideration. Number two, the most important thing is, what does the Lord want me to do with my life?
— Ohio Gov. John Kasich (R), continuing to “signal his increasing interest in running for president Sunday, saying he’s waiting for a signal from God before making the call,” Politico reports.
If Jeb Bush loses New Hampshire, they’ll get Mitt Romney back in the race.
— James Carville, quoted by the Washington Post.
If the national presidency were to pass back and forth between two or three families in any Latin American nation we would call it an oligarchy.
— Former U.S. Sen. Gary Hart, writing in Time.
