Closest we've been to a deal in 20 years and it breaks down over who we approached first.
If you approach the Republicans, he's a right-wing sell out, if you approach the Democrats, he's a fire-breathing partisan.
Hard enough caving on principle without looking like you're caving on principle.
And, we have a little problem called the Wall Street Journal.
We don't take credit.
What?
We don't take credit at all.
It's the only way.
They approached each other. Bi-partisan down the line. No one can say I'm setting anyone up.
Mr. President, a victory like this comes along once in a generation.
We'll have practically saved the New Deal and no one will even know we were in the room.
We'll know. And if we don't do this... if this system collapses, which is what'll happen, if we go back to breadlines, if growing old in America means growing poor again ... we'll know that, too.
There is no such thing as an invisible legacy, sir.
You have to know you'd be giving it away.
All day we've been talking about my legacy, my portrait, what's going to be carved on my tombstone. Maybe we pay a little more attention to what's being rendered. And the rendering takes care of itself.
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