Quotes About Howard Baker

#1. I have a treasure trove of Baker memories, all of which reinforce my sense of Howard Baker as one of the most decent people with whom I have worked. While I was simply a young staffer, he never treated me or my colleagues as anything else but equals.

John Yarmuth

#2. Eventually, somebody is going to be a hero, and somebody's going to be president. Not necessarily the same person.

Howard Baker

#3. I intend to travel to Okinawa and to visit with Okinawa officials and the citizens of Okinawa at an early date. I will send my best analysis of that situation, including the local attitudes, back to Washington, to the government there.

Howard Baker

#4. Sometimes you have to walk out on a limb, knowing you could fall thirty feet to the hard ground, just to see if that apple on the edge is worth the risk like you think it is."
"And what if it's not?"
"Then you get up, dust yourself off, and keep walking til you find the next tree.

Kandi Steiner

#5. Demography is changing us as we are older societies, we're living longer. How the generations balance each other out, how that affects education and health care.

Howard Baker

#6. Better to lose your husband than waste your life

Tom Barry

#7. Any time the United States government turns over an American citizen, including military personnel, to the government of another country, it is in our nature to want to make sure that they receive the best treatment, the fairest treatment, and the most humane treatment.

Howard Baker

#8. In Washington I'm thought of as a conservative, but in Tennessee I'm thought of as a Bolshevik.

Howard Baker

#9. We must examine then the concerns of the Government of Japan about the language of the treaty itself - of SOFA - and of the interim and further arrangements that have been made since 1995, and see whether or not we need to make any changes. Those are decisions I cannot make.

Howard Baker

#10. It may look like we're doing nothing when we sit zazen. But actually we are exposing ourselves to ourselves.

Brad Warner

#11. You've got to guard against speaking more clearly than you think.

Howard Baker

#12. I think and hope and believe that the Japanese government and the people of Japan will be happy and content with the progress of justice in this case and that it will not become a great issue in the future.

Howard Baker

#13. Listen more often than you speak.

Howard Baker

#14. The beginning of the decline of the Republic was the day they air-conditioned the Capitol.

Howard Baker

#15. I love the military. They don't get nearly enough credit for all the hard work they do to protect us, keep us in a safe place so we can enjoy ourselves every day.

Ric Flair

#16. The central question is simply put: What did the president know and when did he know it?

Howard Baker

#17. The artist is the hand that, by touching this or that key, sets the soul vibrating automatically.

Wassily Kandinsky

#18. The most difficult thing in any negotiation, almost, is making sure that you strip it of the emotion and deal with the facts. And there was a considerable challenge to that here and understandably so.

Howard Baker

#19. If you don't like the question that's asked, answer some other question.

Howard Baker

#20. We have seven people who knew the skewers were there: the wedding planner, the reception hall manager, the dressmaker, the florist, the veil-maker, the cake-maker, and the caterer. I haven't ruled out the butcher, the baker, and the candlestick maker, either.

Linda Howard

#21. Just as the body takes time to recover from an infection that has afflicted it, so the soul needs times of silence and solitude for its recovery from the insane pace of modern life.

Howard Baker

#22. I think it's dynamite, the way my career has just kept moving, even when people didn't know it did. I made such interesting films, but, yeah, they're not necessarily the big movies that go to the supermarket. I don't need those movies, because I don't wanna do them.

Rutger Hauer

#23. The river in front of her was black. She thought it contained many things.

Gisele Prassinos

#24. It is almost always the cover-up rather than the event that causes trouble.

Howard Baker