“As we
know this morning, there is another ground-breaking, crossroads moment.
That is for Senator Hillary Clinton, who ran her campaign on her own
terms. This woman, as we said, forged into determination and purpose her
whole life. As someone said, ‘No thorns, no throne; no gall, no glory;
no cross, no crown.’”
— ABC’s Diane Sawyer on Good Morning America, June 4, quoting a
17th century discourse about Jesus Christ. [66 points]
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Runners-up:
Co-host Robin Roberts:
“Some would say it’s a team of rivals, a la President Lincoln, or is a
better comparison a team of geniuses as FDR did?”... ABC’s
George Stephanopoulos:
“We have not seen this kind of combination of star power and brain power
and political muscle this early in a cabinet in our lifetimes.”
— ABC’s Good Morning America, Nov. 24. [47 points]
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Hillary Clinton:
“You know, I don’t really care about any of the hits that people make on
me. It’s, that’s fine. I can’t control it. They can say whatever they
want.”
Correspondent Cynthia McFadden:
“There’s never a night, when you go back to whatever hotel room,
whatever city you’re in that night, and crawl in a ball and say, ‘I
just, this just hurts too much?’”
— ABC’s Cynthia McFadden interviewing Hillary Clinton on Nightline,
December 19, 2007. [40]
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“Agree
with him or not, he [John Edwards] deserves credit for pushing tough
issues off the back burner. He encouraged his fellow Democrats to speak
out for the disenfranchised and under-served. He was the first to raise
issues like poverty, universal health care and climate change, proposing
big ideas — sometimes controversial ideas — to meet big challenges. He
bucked the conventional wisdom and took political risks, speaking
honestly about why he wanted to raise taxes, for example. That took
courage.”
— CBS anchor Katie Couric in a January 30 “Katie Couric’s Notebook”
video posted to CBSNews.com a few hours after Edwards quit the
presidential race. [34]
Winner
