James Baker Quotes
- I understand personally that it is frustrating to lose presidential elections by narrow margins.
- Never let the other fellow set the agenda.
- Sometimes an active policy is best advanced by doing nothing until the right time - or never.
- Sometimes you move publicly, sometimes privately. Sometimes quietly, sometimes at the top of your voice.
- This is what happens, when, for the first time in modern history, a candidate resorts to lawsuits to try to overturn the outcome of an election for president.
- When you have energy companies like Shell and British Petroleum, both of which are perhaps represented in this room, saying there is a problem with excess carbon dioxide emission, I think we ought to listen.
- You don't need to know who's playing on the White House tennis court to be a good president.
- You don't need to know who's playing on the White House tennis court to be a good president. A president has many roles.
- When you have energy companies like Shell and British Petroleum, both of which are perhaps represented in this room, saying there is a problem with excess carbon dioxide emission, I think we ought to listen.
- Never let the other fellow set the agenda.
- Sometimes an active policy is best advanced by doing nothing until the right time - or never.
- You don't need to know who's playing on the White House tennis court to be a good president.
- That's something we're looking at as part of this change. I think if the audience values our content more and more, then in an evolving universe... you're going to set a price against that. There's an argument that there is an opportunity to explore there.
- Every one of the recommendations in our report, whether they are recommendations to the Congress or recommendations to the states, are designed to improve confidence in our system of federal elections.
- It seems to me that those actions send very conflicting signals,
- It's not that I believe he's trying to avoid it,
- Did we break the law or not ... it's real concerning to me and real concerning to the public.
- What do we change to see that this never happens again?
- We will occupy the moral high ground.
- We haven't seen a normal winter for the past three years because of El Nino and La Nina, but those conditions have disappeared and we're going back to what we've seen more normally in the past 10 or 20 years,
- Although the
- The costs in all areas will be much greater, as will the political risks, both domestic and international, if we end up going it alone or with only one or two countries.
- Anyone who thinks we can effect regime change in
- Some will argue, as was done in 1990, that going for United Nations authority and not getting it will weaken our case,
- I disagree. By proposing to proceed in such a way, we will be doing the right thing, both politically and substantively. We will occupy the moral high ground.
- While we are disappointed ... they specifically noted we are free to return to the federal courts to present our constitutional challenges to the selective and subjective manual recount process at an appropriate time in the future,
- The average number of intense storms is two. We predict we're going to have more than two -- three or more of these intense hurricanes.
- When is it going to happen? Probably during the seasonal peak, which is August to mid-October.
- Now, the Gore campaign is calling for yet another recount in selected, predominantly Democratic counties where there were large, unexplained swings in their favor in the recount,
- I understand personally, ... that it is frustrating to lose presidential elections by narrow margins.
- [Describing his reception by the French as] warm, ... We want to do what we can to reduce the oppressive debt burden on the Iraqi people so that they can enjoy freedom and prosperity, and we would like to do that in 2004 through the mechanism of the Paris Club.
- We are aware that there have been some complaints filed in terms of pre-election activities by way of efforts to buy votes, ... We're not sure of the significance of those.
- The Gore campaign has refused to achieve finality unless they achieve the result they are seeking,
- This is what happens, when, for the first time in modern history, a candidate resorts to lawsuits to try to overturn the outcome of an election for president.
- We would like to see this process completed in a very transparent, open, judicious way, ... We are quite confident this is the way the process has been conducted so far.
- Voting machines are not Republican and are not Democratic, and are not subject to conscious or unconscious bias,
- We will then withdraw our lawsuit, and we both agree to accept the results of the overseas ballots, ... That what's best for the country, that is what's reasonable.
- We will vigorously contest the efforts for a manual recount in
- There are no uniform, objective standards here. It's all subjective,
- The Gore campaign is asking for a third recount here. We can go into
- This is going to be a cold winter. Be ready for more.
- A manual recount of the whole state of
- Machines are neither Republicans nor Democrats and therefore can never be consciously or even unconsciously biased,
- We think this ruling is inconsistent with
- Today's judgment is of course disappointing,
- It would not, as (U.S. Supreme Court) Justice Scalia says, remove a cloud, it would create a cloud because ... the recount is being done in an unconstitutional way as far as we are concerned, and it's being done in a way that changes the rules after the game has been played.
- From our standpoint at least, it was a win.
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