David Axelrod Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

“But you say, does it represent change? The change is that we are fighting an insurance industry that has killed health reform for generations. They're spending tens of millions of dollars right now to defeat this bill, and we're on the doorstep of winning a great victory for the American people.”

“I think President Obama is a committed, practicing nonideologue. He's consumed by neither tactics nor ideology. He is more concerned about outcomes than he is about process and categorizations.”

“I think those autoworkers whose industry would have collapsed if the president hadn't intervened are certainly better off.”

“This marketplace where people can buy insurance who don't have it today - a competitive marketplace: That's an idea that both sides embrace.”

“We are a unified party.”

“We have to deal with the world as we find it. The world of what it takes to get this done.”

“We've got ballots flying around, being counted by hand, arriving by truck and in God knows whose custody.”

“I haven't given up on working... across the aisle on issues and maybe it'll take an election or two for that to fully ferment, maybe it you know sometimes it takes awhile for people to realize what the best path is.”

“The place where we don't agree is on whether there should be some restraint on insurance companies and whether they should be allowed to run wild. We believe there should be some restraint; some on the other side don't think so.”

“But obviously, we're looking for all good ideas to help deal with our long-term debt problem. This is something that is going to affect our economy. It affects our kids. And we need to deal with it.”