Notable Quotables - 06/02/2008

Published: 6/2/2008 1:00 AM ET

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Obama Is "Something Special"

"Presidential campaigns have destroyed many bright and capable politicians. But there's ample evidence that [Senator Barack] Obama is something special, a man who makes difficult tasks look easy, who seems to touch millions of diverse people with a message of hope that somehow doesn't sound Pollyannaish."
- AP writer Charles Babington in a May 10 dispatch.

Following Her Liberal Heart

"I see this as a moment of transformational change in the country and I have spent my lifetime sitting on the sidelines watching people attempt to make change. I just decided that I can't sit on the sidelines anymore."
- Former ABC and CBS correspondent Linda Douglass confirming that she was going to work for the Obama campaign, as recounted by The Atlantic's Marc Ambinder in a May 21 blog entry.

Beware GOP Vote Thieves

"They've [the Obama camp] been arguing that their electoral map is different, that they can do this with North Carolina and Colorado, and other places where they have won either primaries or caucuses. Other people, I should point out, other Clinton loyalists, but realists, say that that electoral map is a stretch in one regard: There are, you know, Republican governors and Secretaries of State, if you will, Katherine Harris-type election officials in those states. So, even though he may have won primaries or caucuses in those states, he has to go up against the establishment, which would be Republican, and he has to figure out a way to get a fair vote if he's the nominee in those red states."
- NBC correspondent Andrea Mitchell during MSNBC's live primary night coverage, May 20.

CNN legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin: "There are four very conservative Justices there [on the U.S. Supreme Court]. They decided a case about Indiana election law."
Host Bill Moyers: "Upholding the state's voter identifica-tion....What did you think about that?"
Toobin: "Well, I thought it was a bad decision, but a predictable one, because it was a very clear attempt by Republicans to stop Democrats from voting. I don't think there's any doubt about what the motivation was of that law....The fact is electoral fraud scarcely exists in this country. The real agenda was to help Republicans."
- PBS's Bill Moyers Journal, May 23.