But his aides aren't always able to bring that famed level of discipline to a crucial area of the Romney campaign — their candidate's seemingly endless ability to utter remarks that, to his critics' delight, sail onto political blogs, YouTube and Twitter.
But Mr. Romney's aides cannot always bring that well-known level of discipline to one crucial aspect of the campaign: their candidate's seemingly endless ability to utter remarks that, to the delight of his critics, sail onto political blogs, YouTube and Twitter.
During the 2008 campaign, Mr. McCain's advisers debated attacking Barack Obama for his association with the Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr., the Chicago pastor who had uttered remarks hostile to America.
Sometimes, chief executives utter inadvertent remarks as they flounder through news conferences.
The tobacco kingpin who is Nick's boss (Robert Duvall), moldering in Winston-Salem in baronial splendor, utters vicious remarks in the most courtly Southern tones.
Dobson was also recorded uttering racist remarks, and saying he had carried a Stanley knife and threatened to use it against a black man.
Tavecchio told Corriere he is being targeted for blackmail and that he does not recall uttering the remarks, adding that they "might have been manipulated".
In his own news conference, Mr. Zakhilwal denied having uttered the remarks about Mr. Karzai as reported in a diplomatic cable sent by Mr. Eikenberry on Feb. 26, and suggested that the views were the ambassador's.
All that has not stopped the broadcaster from giving a berth to the two men who were caught red-handed a fortnight ago, making sexist comments about the assistant referee Sian Massey and uttering crude remarks to colleagues.
So radioactive was the atmosphere Tuesday at La Perle, the bar and bistro in the Marais where John Galliano allegedly uttered the remarks that cost him his job as design director at Christian Dior, that the staff refused even to entertain a reporter's queries.
Donaldson uttered his remarks recently on the ABC television show "Day One," and they, too, were meant to parody a particularly purple patch of Gingrichite prose: the Speaker's description of a "pouting sex kitten… sitting athwart" the hero's chest.
