This is not about the hunting incident, it's not about a day's delay in getting out news of the shooting, it's about Dick Cheney. It's dangerous to our system of government when you have a vice president with so much power and so little accountability.
In this presumption-of-guilt culture, which is what has come about in Washington in the last 10 or 15 years, there must be a sense of anger there and an inability to manage the facts.
Duncan is not only hurting himself in Baltimore, where people are just getting to know him, but also in Montgomery County, where people don't like negative politics, ... I think it's very risky.
Other people are welcome here who aren't supporters. [Clinton] speaks on the issues inside the White House the same way he does outside the White House.
When you are under siege and you have to react to every day's crises and the media are in a feeding frenzy, it is hard to stay on message, let alone in control of your message,
Many lawyers are, media-wise, brain-dead. Bob gets how to be a lawyer and communicate effectively. Lawyers cannot operate just by no-commenting anymore.
If he had asked for the ship's speed, we would have given it to him in 10 seconds. The information he provided to The Courant is either a result of his attorneys not sharing information they had with him, or he flat-out said something he knew not to be true. Maybe in the future he should be in better communications with the lawyers.
It's a self-created nightmare. Cheney took a non-story, or a minor story, and created a huge negative story because of his stubbornness and his arrogance.