Amy McFarland Quotes

The American people... want change. They want big ideas, big reform.

When people told me `It`s great to be here`, they meant at the house, not with me.

When it comes to federal elections law, Tom DeLay and his special-interest friends live by one set of rules, and everyone else lives by a very different set.

They ended up spending a total, their campaign plus the independent, about 1.3 million. I only ended up spending about -- not only, but I spent about 2 million. But I had no intention of doing that until I was attacked with a negative ad by an independent group.

What is more comforting to the terrorists around the world: the failure to pass the 9/11 legislation because we lacked `a majority of the majority,` or putting aside partisan politics to enact tough new legislation with America`s security foremost in mind?

As individuals, we will be judged in our lives by the totality of our actions. Not one thing will stand out. And I think that`s how we get judged by our colleagues and that`s how we get judged by the good lord.

The fact is, Bush`s war policy has failed. It`s failed! Who better to say so than Jack Murtha?

Here in Illinois it`s known as Kid Care, and I talked about expanding it to family care. So if you work full- time, you get health care.

Things happened there that I don`t think are the finest hours for anybody, whether it was a journalist, the legal system or, in that case of the political system, who would say that was an example of when Washington worked best.

I still believe the Lewinsky investigation was way off from the focus of what Whitewater was, which turned out to be nothing at the end of the process. And I think that there were people who were determined as political opponents to not allow his presidency to succeed.

I believe the record I was allowed to help establish by the side of the president was important.

I`ve never been in a place where winning has hurt the ability to do anything.

I sometimes joke, Paula, even paranoid people have enemies.

We invoke the sacrifices of our fallen heroes in the abstract, but we seldom take time to thank them individually.

Rather than doing the kind of fact-checking that normally goes with a story, you ran with certain stories for not wanting to get beat. There`s a pressure that exists in your profession. I would be surprised in any honest exchange that you say that doesn`t exist.