Quote of the Day Archive

"He's aware of the sentiment. He's listened to people, including his constituents. He'll continue to do so and we'll see what happens."

-- George Behan, spokesman for U.S. Rep. Norm Dicks, on maintaining his support for U.S. Sen. Hillary Clinton despite U.S. Sen. Barack Obama's momentum to secure the Democratic presidential nomination.

"When you're a law-enforcement officer, you spend your entire life being told, 'Don't even take a cup of coffee from somebody,' " Shields said, "and now you're going around asking for thousands of dollars. It's not a comfortable thing to do. He does it because he has to."

-- Rep. Dave Reichert's campaign spokesman Mike Shields on the 8th District Representative's least favorite part of the job: fundraising. 

"Do I have some passion about it? Yes. Yes, I have some passion. We got a few old geezers that we've got to convince."

 -- Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Sen. John McCain on global warming at an event in North Bend Tuesday.

“I’m kind of surprised, really. It’s almost like a slap in the face to her. She’s making a tough decision.”

-- Republican Skip Novakovich, who is running to replace Rep. Shirley Hankins (R-Richland), on the number of candidates who signed on to run before she announced her retirement.

“We don’t expect that we’ll be able to maintain that kind of pace, but we are confident that, as we keep talking about the governor’s record on health care, education and the economy, that more and more people will continue to contribute to the governor’s re-election campaign."

-- Aaron Toso, spokesman for Gov. Christine Gregoire's re-election campaign, damping down expectations for future fundraising totals. The campaign announced last week that it had raised $1.3 million in April.

"It would be hard to match $1.3 million every month, but we expect strong fundraising. We just got started campaigning. We will continue to talk about the governor's record."

-- Aaron Toso, spokesman for Gov. Christine Gregoire's re-election campaign, on the campaign's future fundraising prospects.

"It would be hard to match $1.3 million every month, but we expect strong fundraising. We just got started campaigning. We will continue to talk about the governor's record."

-- Aaron Toso, spokesman for Gov. Christine Gregoire's re-election campaign, on the campaign's future fundraising prospects.

"The Republicans just don’t have a plan. There’s nothing new.”

-- Republican state Rep. Shirley Hankins at her reirement news conference.

"It's tough to go from hero cop to endangered incumbent in such a short stretch of time, but that's the former King County sheriff's fate in a suburban Seattle district that is steadily becoming more Democratic. Reichert still has a reservoir of good will to draw from as he fights off Democrat Darcy Burner for the second straight cycle. But Burner has become a more polished and confident campaigner - and has outpaced the incumbent on the fundraising front for the past few quarters."

-- Roll Call's Josh Kurtz on placing Reichert on the most endangered list in November.

"If you asked me if I respected Mr. Haler, I would have to say no." - Rob Welch on Rep. Larry Haler (R-Richland)

"I've far exceeded anything he's ever done in his life." - Rep. Larry Haler on Rob Welch (R-Richland).