Quote of the Day Archive

"Clinton called upon America's past humanity to lead us towards an interdependent global reality; with reference to the follies of the current administration, he places Barack at the forefront of the movement to restore American global leadership."

- Matt Murphy, speech and debate coach at Denver East High School, weighing in on how former president Bill Clinton did during his speech on Wednesday Night during the Democratic National Convention.

"I don't think [the Democratic National Committee] really has that much impact on my race. [It] gives me some national recognition, but I'm really more concerned about recognition within the distric

-- Democratic congressional candidate Betsy Markey about the DNC giving her localU.S. House in the 4th district a possible boost.

"These states are in the midst of really a significant political realignment."

-- Arizona Gov. Janet Napolitano on the political shift in the West that favors Democrats in elected office. 

"I don't think it's a good thing to have both your president and vice president between them have 11 homes at a time when we're in a housing crisis."

-- Conservative pundit Pat Buchanan on the possibility of Mitt Romney being selected as John McCain's running mate. 

"He's a prolific letter writer."

Secret Service spokesman Malcolm Wiley, on Marc Ramsey, an inmate at the Arapahoe County Jail who is a suspected of sending a threatening letter containing white powder to U.S. Sen. John McCain's Colorado campaign office on Thursday.

"You ruined my day. I thought you were going to say she was the vice-presidential nominee."

-- U.S. Rep. Mark Udall, upon learning that his colleague, U.S. Rep. Stephanie Tubbs Jones (D-OH) had passed away.

"By going to Invesco Field at Mile High, we doubled the number of boxes and that has helped dramatically, that and having the candidate have been a big difference."

-- Denver Mayor John Hickenlooper, reporting that the DNC hosting committee has raised the $40.6 million it promised it would — thanks, in some part to Barack Obama's plan to accept the nomination at Invesco Field.

"Colorado is ground-zero in terms of who's going to be the next president of the United States."

-- U.S. Sen. Ken Salazar on Colorado playing a crucial role in determining who will be the next president of the United States. 

“I think he's down to earth. I think he's just more in touch with the people. He's more like one of us, I would say, than some of the other governors we've had."

-- Retired nurse Colleen Johnson of Lakewood on Gov. Bill Ritter. A new Rocky Mountain News/CBS4 News poll on Ritter’s favorability, which stands at 50 percent.

"Democrats win the state when they hold down GOP margins in rural districts, and appeal to swing women voters in Larimer County and the Denver suburbs. Mr. Obama lacks rural credentials, but he might make inroads in the suburbs...

...(McCain) needs to run up votes in the GOP strongholds of El Paso (Colorado Springs), Douglas (south of Denver), Weld (Eastern Plains) and Mesa (Western Slope) counties, while appealing to Democratic and independent Hispanics and Catholics"

-- Karl Rove, war gaming the presidential election in Colorado.