James Baker Quotes

#1. If you're not gonna pull the trigger, don't point the gun.

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#2. Machines are neither Republicans nor Democrats and therefore can never be consciously or even unconsciously biased,

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#3. I understand personally that it is frustrating to lose presidential elections by narrow margins.

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#4. 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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#5. 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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#6. You talk to your enemies, not just your friends.

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#7. Never let the other fellow set the agenda.

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#8. You don't need to know who's playing on the White House tennis court to be a good president.

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#9. Sometimes an active policy is best advanced by doing nothing until the right time - or never.

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#10. 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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#11. Sometimes you move publicly, sometimes privately. Sometimes quietly, sometimes at the top of your voice.

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