James Baker Quotes
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WE MADE A MONSTER OF HITLER, A DEVIL. THAT IS WHY (THEREFORE) WE COULD NOT AFTER THE WAR SAY OTHERWISE. WE HAD PERSONALLY MOBILISED THE MASSES NEVERTHELESS AGAINST THE DEVIL. THUS WE WERE FORCED AFTER THE WAR, TO PLAY ALONG WITH THIS DEVILS' SCENARIO. WE COULD NOT POSSIBLY HAVE MADE OUR PEOPLE CLEAR (TO THEM) THAT THE WAR WAS ONLY AN ECONOMIC PREVENTATIVE MEASURE!
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It's not appeasement to talk to your enemies.
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I understand personally, ... that it is frustrating to lose presidential elections by narrow margins.
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Who could not be moved by the sight of that poor, demoralized rabble, outwitted, outflanked, outmanoeuvered by the U.S. military? Yet, given time, I think the press will bounce back.
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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.
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Never let the other fellow set the agenda.
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If you're not gonna pull the trigger, don't point the gun.
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Sometimes you move publicly, sometimes privately. Sometimes quietly, sometimes at the top of your voice.
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Sometimes an active policy is best advanced by doing nothing until the right time - or never.
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You don't need to know who's playing on the White House tennis court to be a good president
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You talk to your enemies, not just your friends.
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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.
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Machines are neither Republicans nor Democrats and therefore can never be consciously or even unconsciously biased.
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