Rich Galen Quotes

United States, Columnist
1946

Richard A. "Rich" Galen is a columnist and Republican strategist and former press secretary to Vice President Dan Quayle and Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich.

Democracy is messy. It is messy whether you've been doing it since 1789 or whether you're going to do it for the first time in 2005. The trouble with Democracy is, you hold elections. The trouble with dictatorships is...you don't.

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I would be surprised to see the White House scaling back on anything. That would be an admission they are operating from a position of weakness.

Rich Galen

Obama hasn't shown the leadership that has allowed the center to go towards him. He's got his base now after the stimulus bill, after the latest jobs plan, but he doesn't have the center. The center is wide open.

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- Plans
- Stimulus
You dont have to be a political genius to sniff the smell of blood in the water.

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- Political
- Genius
The [Elian] raid... was almost worth it, if only to watch Jesse Jackson...defending an armed pre-dawn raid by the US government on a minority household.

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