“Every dollar helps us accomplish things we might not have been able to do otherwise, things like late phone banking and direct mail that's going out over the weekend. It's this type of thing that helps us get over the top Tuesday.”
“The front-loading process will hurt the Democratic nominee, ... We will have a nominee in middle to late January, while Republicans are dominating airwaves for weeks or months after that.”
“[That plan] will really exacerbate front-loading, which I think is just not good for the process, ... As a member of the Democratic National Committee , I want a process that will nominate a Democrat who will become president in 2008.”