The Battle for America 2008 Quotes

“But history is replete with potential candidates for the presidency who waited too long rather than example of people who ran too soon." - David Axelrod”
― Dan Balz and Haynes Johnson, The Battle for America, 2008: The Story of an Extraordinary Election

“What distinguished Obama was his determination not to wait until he had forged a longer political record of his achievement, and the historic conjunction of events that made possible so unlikely a candidacy.”
― Dan Balz and Haynes Johnson, The Battle for America, 2008: The Story of an Extraordinary Election