Budget Quote by Steve Kornacki

After sweeping to power in the Newt Gingrich-led 'revolution' of 1994, the GOP had overplayed its hand and watched Bill Clinton easily defeat Bob…

— Steve Kornacki

Clinton passed his first budget without a single Republican vote in either the House or the Senate. Before it led to the longest economic…

— Tina Brown

1995 government shutdown from GOP underestimating Clinton.

— Newt Gingrich

After two years of fighting, government shutdowns and little to no agreement on anything except welfare reform in 1996, President Clinton was re-elected and…

— Ari Fleischer

There are people who kind of gravitate towards running politics based on new ideas and issues, and that was what the secret was for…

— John Podesta

It's impossible to overstate the degree to which the '94 GOP revolution shook the political class. Bill Clinton was immediately dismissed as a one-term…

— Steve Kornacki

Bill Clinton broke what was known as the Republican electoral lock on the presidency, and Bill Clinton won the White House in 1992. That…

— Steve Kornacki

There are change elections and there are 'more of the same' elections, and there was a lot of economic anxiety in the 1992 election…

— Steve Schmidt

In the run-up to the 1992 Democratic convention, Clinton's campaign realized that voters thought the young governor had a privileged upbringing. They didn't buy…

— Dee Dee Myers

The 1994 elections that brought Newt Gingrich to power in the House decisively shaped the remaining years of Bill Clinton's presidency, pushing him further…

— Noah Feldman

Exactly why Democrats were crushed in the '94 midterms is impossible to say.

— Steve Kornacki

Clinton's resilience became sort of the secret weapon of the campaign. He was never going to just give up and get out.

— Dee Dee Myers