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Biography from the ABC News website of This Week with George Stephanopoulos at ABCNEWS.COM

"Prior to joining ABCNEWS, Stephanopoulos served in the Clinton administration as the senior advisor to the president for policy and strategy. He was a key strategist in both Clinton presidential campaigns and was involved in the development of virtually all major policy initiatives during President Clinton's first term in office."

"During the 1992 presidential election, Stephanopoulos served on the Clinton/Gore campaign as the deputy campaign manager and director of communications. He oversaw polling, policy, scheduling, press relations and media operations."

"Before joining President Clinton's campaign, he was executive floor manager to House Majority Leader Richard A. Gephardt."

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"As a speech, it was sophisticated, eloquent. Barack Obama is as fine a writer as you’ll find in a politician. The question is....how voters will respond, not only to the honesty that Barack Obama showed yesterday, not only the sophistication he showed in the speech, but also the honor that he showed. He did not renounce someone that he was under a great pressure to renounce, even though he disagreed with his comments. And I think a lot of voters, even if they’re uncomfortable with Reverend Wright, will respect Barack Obama for that act."

— ABC’s George Stephanopoulos on Good Morning America, March 19.
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George Stephanopoulos: “For those who grade presidential photo-ops, this was an A++. I mean, look at the pictures of the President on the flight deck – he looks like one of the pilots. I’ll say one thing, he was very careful to take that helmet off before he got out on the flight deck. Nobody wants a picture in a helmet looking like, remember back in 1988, Michael Dukakis in the tank....”

Diane Sawyer: “Put up that picture of Michael Dukakis for a minute, George, because as we know, it sometimes can be tricky to be seen among the military, unless you can carry it off. How could you be sure? Do you think he [Bush] tried on the suit beforehand? Am I being too cynical?”

Stephanopoulos: “No, I think he probably did.”

Good Morning America - May 2, 2003 (Exchange about President Bush’s visit to the USS Abraham Lincoln)

“One thing that Democrats and Republicans have given President Clinton credit for is that deficit reduction plan that he put in place in 1993. It did at least help, help prevent the deficit from going up, and probably helped spur the economic recovery along at the margins. Just as the first President Bush’s deficit reduction plan in 1990 and 1991, though it probably hurt him in his presidential campaign because he had to break his ‘no new taxes pledge,’ probably did help the economy.”

C-SPAN’s Washington Journal - May 2, 2003