Quote of the Day Archive

“Once you're in one of these databases, you don't get out.”

 - Carson City Clerk-Recorder Alan Glover on voter registration lists that lead to annoying political calls

“I’m not going to predict to you that we take the Senate back ... But I don’t think we’re going to get anywhere near the point where we wouldn’t be able to assert our authority as the minority to stop legislation.”

- U.S. Sen. Jon Kyl on Republicans' chances in the Senate this fall

“I think Schweikert was probably the Republicans’ best nominee."

-- David Wasserman, an analyst for the nonpartisan Cook Political Report, on David Schweikert, the Republican nominee in the race to unseat Democratic U.S. Rep. Harry Mitchell.

"I spent the past year talking with voters all across the district about the need for high-paying jobs in Arizona, affordable healthcare and a responsible energy plan that will relieve our pain at the pump and free us from Middle East oil. In Congress, I will work to break the partisan gridlock and reach across party lines to cut taxes for middle class families."

-- Former state Rep. Ann Kirkpatrick following her win in the Democratic primary in the 1st Congressional District. 

"The glory days are over, I think."

- David Berman, a senior research fellow with Arizona State University's Morrison Institute for Public Policy, on Gov. Janet Napolitano's declining reputation in her state.

"I am elated with Senator McCain’s selection of Governor Sarah Palin for Vice President." he said. "Governor Palin brings a vibrant spirit, uncompromising principles, a deeply rooted value of family and children, and a record of fearless determination in reforming the broken systems of government that will help to bring exactly the kind of change to Washington that the American people need and have every right to expect."

– Republican U.S. Rep. Trent Franks

"We cannot afford four more years of failing economics and a falling economy. For the change we need to lift working families across our nation, for the change we need to ensure the American dream is within reach of all of us, we must send Barack Obama to the White House."

- Arizona Gov. Janet Napolitano's, speaking at the Democratic National Convention on Wednesday night.

"Just having a little fun."

-- Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, a Republican, responding to PolitickerAZ.com when asked why he was strolling through the middle of the Democratic National Convention.

"I remind people that McCain may be the senator from Arizona, but he's really not of Arizona. He's of Washington, D.C."

-- Gov. Janet Napolitano on U.S. Sen. John McCain.

“I think the area where we spent the most attention was how to actually write the health-care plank, because Clinton had proposed that it be an actual mandate to purchase health care and Obama had not. We’re all in agreement that there needs to be healthcare coverage for every man woman and child in the United States.”

-- Gov. Janet Napolitano on the process to craft the Democratic Party's health care plank for the national convention.