Fleischer Quotes & Sayings

Anytime James Carville, Paul Begala and David Axelrod hold hands and jump for joy, it's worth pondering how to turn their joy into tears. — Ari Fleischer

I think it's important for the people to see the government is functioning ... — Ari Fleischer

A cat is a purring parcel of paradox, a cunning collection of contradictions. A cat is lazy and busy, dainty and savage, affectionate and aloof, greedy and finicky, sound asleep in one instant, and awake and stalking in the next. A cat is a limp puddle of softness, surrounding a steel-hard and ever-alert set of muscles ... A cat has the face of a pansy flower, and is just as velvety. A cat holds infinity in her eyes, and your heart in her front paws. — Leonore Fleischer

But instead, Democrats are so bent on seeing Republicans as a bunch of angry, right wing, intolerant, unreliable extremists that they have a track record of missing the mood of the country, especially the sentiment of people who don't wake up to 'The New York Times.' — Ari Fleischer

From talk radio to insult radio wasn't really that much of a leap ... — Leonore Fleischer

I'm a huge fan of animation, and just the arts in general - anything that emanates from someone's mind and soul and is capable of touching other people's minds and souls. — Charles Fleischer

Having served as the majority spokesman for the House Ways and Means Committee after Republicans took the House in 1994, I've seen the promise and the peril of divided government before. — Ari Fleischer

One of the reasons people love sports is because it's non-political. And to the degree that Donald Trump puts sports organizations like golf tournaments in difficult positions, they won't want anything to do with him, i think all of this is evidence that Donald Trump is finding it a lot harder to be a candidate than he probably anticipated. — Ari Fleischer

The best way to divulge a secret is to tell someone not to say anything about it. — Charles Fleischer

I think you have always heard, and you continue to hear from officials, a measure of high confidence that, indeed, the weapons of mass destruction will be found. — Ari Fleischer

If he declares he has none, then we will know that Saddam Hussein is once again ... — Ari Fleischer

Because what I say from that podium has got to be accurate, and I'm the only one who's going to be held liable if it's not accurate. — Ari Fleischer

Most of the State of the Union will not be about Iraq. Most of the State of the Union will be about improving America's economy and providing greater access to health care for millions of American people, including senior citizens. — Ari Fleischer

The 2000s were marked by terrorism and a bipartisan desire to fight it. — Ari Fleischer

Since Tezuka animated for Disney and was influenced by their animation and that of Max Fleischer. Tezuka's design was reminiscent of the Disney style of that era, but the nose was made smaller and the eyes slightly bigger, to show more emotion. — AlphaManga

Bush to USSS: 'We need to get back to Wash. We don't need some tin horn terrorist to scare us off.' — Ari Fleischer

Contrary to the myth that Mr. Bush cut taxes only for the wealthy, the 2001 tax cut reduced taxes for every income-tax payer in the country. — Ari Fleischer

The greatest threat to the security of the people of North Korea comes from the government of North Korea. — Ari Fleischer

In addition to my comedic sensibilities, I also have a love of science. I think that it would be nice if, by the time we're doing the next version of 'Roger Rabbit,' it would be nice if I was receiving my Nobel prize the same week. — Charles Fleischer

When you are an artist, you want your audience to think it's effortless and easy. — Charles Fleischer

A laugh can be a very powerful thing. Why, sometimes in life, it's the only weapon we have. — Charles Fleischer

Robert Zemeckis is a genius filmmaker who is an amazing individual. I feel really blessed that I've gotten to work with him on many different occasions. — Charles Fleischer

We have high confidence that they have weapons of mass destruction. That is what this war was about and it is about. — Ari Fleischer

My advice to the tea party freshmen: Slow the galloping horses to a trot. Big government was built over decades; it can't be dismantled in a year, especially when Democrats control the White House. — Ari Fleischer

Everyone now has a sacred cow in the tax code. For my money, the most sacred thing of all is our country and its growth, but the sacred cows have turned into a pack of wolves. — Ari Fleischer

It's time to create an Economic Growth Code whose purpose is to fix and grow the economy, not redistribute massive amounts of wealth. — Ari Fleischer

When you do a movie, you go to the location and get into your costume. It's part of your metamorphosis into your character, and it just made sense to do it. — Charles Fleischer

A dream project is anything I do when I'm awake. — Charles Fleischer

The story of American wrestling at its greatest is the story of its most illustrious champion, Frank Gotch. He dominated the field. Through his extraordinary ability, he gained for wrestling many converts. It was Gotch's victories over the hitherto invincible Hackenschmidt that made him the post popular mat star in America and started a movement among college men to take up wrestling. — Nat Fleischer

There is something democratic about grass-roots, widespread money support. There is something anti-democratic about one person propping up a candidate who can't make it. — Ari Fleischer

I favor the abolition of all Social Security, Medicare and estate taxes. In their place, we should create a simple income tax system that has no deductions or credits at all. — Ari Fleischer

I'm a big technology individual. I love science and technology, and anything that has to do with capturing events so that they can be experienced later. — Charles Fleischer

If Mr. Obama wants to get things done, he must recognize that in Washington only the president has the power to make the first big move. — Ari Fleischer

Given the chance to throw off a brutal dictator like Saddam Hussein, people will rejoice. — Ari Fleischer

Today, grass-roots Republicans want to drink a bottle of 2010 small-government wine, but our candidates were bottled in another era, before the tea party's ideas took root. — Ari Fleischer

If you are reading a large newspaper, all spread out on the table, your cat will come and sit on the very paragraph you are reading, the talented cat draping her tail with miraculous precision over the very line you're not finished with. — Leonore Fleischer

When Orson Welles was acting in 'Compulsion,' the director Richard Fleischer let him just take over and direct the courtroom scenes. To be able to see Welles - who knew more about directing than anyone - direct himself and the other actors, it was unbelievable and unforgettable. — Robert Osborne

As the president has said, if the United Nations will not disarm Saddam Hussein, it will be another international organization, a coalition of the willing that will be made up of numerous nations that will disarm Saddam Hussein. — Ari Fleischer

I get a kick out of Democrats thinking they know how handicap a GOP race. — Ari Fleischer

To find his own salvation, a man must first find the fool locked inside himself and set it free. — Leonore Fleischer

There is already a mountain of evidence that Saddam Hussein is gathering weapons for the purpose of using them. And adding additional information is like adding a foot to Mount Everest. — Ari Fleischer

Why then would people look to the United Nations as an instrument of peace, if instead all it is, is an instrument of putting out declarations that nobody intends to take seriously anyway? — Ari Fleischer

When President George W. Bush cut taxes, he cut them for everyone. — Ari Fleischer

A cat is better than you are, more honest, more graceful, smarter for her size, better coordinated, and infinitely more beautiful. — Leonore Fleischer

The right thing to do is to let the dust settle. — Ari Fleischer

We know for a fact that there are weapons there. — Ari Fleischer

Catch a dog in your favorite chair, and he slinks away abashed. The cat will pretend incomprehension; surely you must know it's her chair? — Leonore Fleischer

If God did not intend the cat to live happily with humankind, why is there a meow in the middle of the word 'hoMEOWner'? — Leonore Fleischer

A safety net for the poor indeed requires some level of income redistribution. — Ari Fleischer

Pornography is supposed to arouse sexual desires. If pornography is a crime, when will they arrest makers of perfume? — Richard Fleischer

I don't expect the press to say thank you for the efforts that I make. — Ari Fleischer

To avoid a military conflict, Saddam Hussein has no other choice than to leave the country. — Ari Fleischer

The reason Gov. Romney passed Romneycare as governor of Massachusetts in 2006 was because many Republicans viewed health care reform, mandates and all, as a way to inoculate against Democratic charges that Republicans didn't care about people who lacked health insurance. — Ari Fleischer

Who hasn't slept in an empty bed sometimes, longing for the embrace of another person on the achingly short trip to the grave? — Leonore Fleischer

New York City is like the appetizer table at a Jewish wedding, loaded with salt and spice and cholesterol and flavor, with a waiter holding out pleasure in his right hand and indigestion in his left. If you've got the bucks, this burg has the bangs. — Leonore Fleischer

The tea party movement and its passion arose in response to trillion dollar deficits as far as the eye can see and out of a sense that Washington is in need of dire fiscal reform. — Ari Fleischer

During his second reign, however, he appears to have had a change of heart (or at least his numismatists did) as Jesus Christ was depicted as a Black man with curly hair. Obviously they must have had enough evidence that proved Jesus Christ was a Black man. Indeed, a lot of evidence still remained in fallen Rome itself that strongly indicated Jesus Christ was a Black man and that the early Jews and Christians were Blacks. — Aylmer Von Fleischer

The president welcomes peaceful protests - it is a time-honored tradition. The president agrees violence is not the answer in Iraq, and that's why he hopes Saddam Hussein will disarm. — Ari Fleischer

Guilt didn't put any butter on the bread of life. — Leonore Fleischer

School choice is one of the strongest ways we have to educate our children, .. believes in school choice and he is going to work hard to enact school choice. — Ari Fleischer

The president typically never does comment on anything involving the Supreme Court cases, Supreme Court ruling, or Supreme Court finding, typically. — Ari Fleischer

If Democrats were good at thinking like Republicans, they would see the light and stop being Democrats. — Ari Fleischer

Well, there is no question that we have evidence and information that Iraq has weapons of mass destruction, biological and chemical particularly ... all this will be made clear in the course of the operation, for whatever duration it takes. — Ari Fleischer

Make no mistake, if the payroll-tax cut is extended, it will become permanent. Social Security will become another welfare program as the tie between what someone pays and what they receive gets broken. — Ari Fleischer

No means everything to a dog, nothing to a cat. — Leonore Fleischer

We believe in the fundamental strength of Israel's economy and have confidence in its long-term potential. — Ari Fleischer

The reason the world is in the spot it's in is because North Korea entered into an agreement and then did not keep up their terms of the agreement. They received aid in return for promising not to develop nuclear weapons. They took the aid, they ran with the aid and then they developed a nuclear weapons anyway. — Ari Fleischer

After two years of fighting, government shutdowns and little to no agreement on anything except welfare reform in 1996, President Clinton was re-elected and decided it was time for compromise. — Ari Fleischer

The press secretary who starts to narrow down or close the president's options because he answers delicate negotiating questions no longer serves the president. — Ari Fleischer

Iraq has tremendous resources that belong to the Iraqi people. And so there are a variety of means that Iraq has to be able to shoulder much of the burden for ther own reconstruction. — Ari Fleischer

President [Bush] believes that [high-energy consumption] is an American way of life, and that it should be the goal of policymakers to protect the American way of life. The American way of life is a blessed one. — Ari Fleischer

I think the burden is on those people who think he didn't have weapons of mass destruction to tell the world where they are. — Ari Fleischer