Quotes by Charles Franklin

“Our attention span is simply shorter. Our willingness to put up with a difficult military situation and losses isnt what it used to be.”

“This is someone who has staked his presidency on strong leadership through crises, and now he has faced three major challenges. Sept. 11 fundamentally altered what this administration is going to be remembered for, which is the response to terrorism, the Iraq war and now obviously Katrina and the aftermath.”

“How tragic it is. How none of us would ever have seen this happening to someone that we know and that is so lovable.”

“The base is his last refuge at this point.”

“Presidents who are low in the polls have a hard time getting Congress to go along with them. He has to persuade the people in Congress to follow his legislative agenda and theyre all worried about 2006.”

“All the way back to 2002 and 2004, the issue of security and terrorism was supposed to be the strength that drives Republican victories and generally has been the strongest suit of the president. Now they dont have a strong suit to play.”

“This war, as bad as it is, touches a far smaller percentage of the population than Vietnam did.”

“If I were in the White House, I would be pretty pleased about this. It does suggest pretty strongly that the president has the opportunity to drive public opinion on this.”

“If I were in the White House, I would be pretty pleased about this.”

“For the peace activists, they are good, symbolic results. They can use them to impress people with how widespread opposition is. But theyre misleading as far as aggregate public opinion. Its an April election, which has very low turnout. So as a public opinion specialist, I have to point out how unrepresentative highly motivated voters are in an April election.”