James Baker Quotes & Sayings
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Famous Quotes By James Baker
Sometimes an active policy is best advanced by doing nothing until the right time - or never. — James Baker
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! — James Baker
Machines are neither Republicans nor Democrats and therefore can never be consciously or even unconsciously biased, — James Baker
Sometimes you move publicly, sometimes privately. Sometimes quietly, sometimes at the top of your voice. — James Baker
You talk to your enemies, not just your friends. — James Baker
Never let the other fellow set the agenda. — James Baker
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. — James Baker
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. — James Baker
I understand personally that it is frustrating to lose presidential elections by narrow margins. — James Baker
If you're not gonna pull the trigger, don't point the gun. — James Baker
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. — James Baker
You don't need to know who's playing on the White House tennis court to be a good president. — James Baker