James Baker Quotes

• 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

  Thinking, Energy, Excess

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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!

  James Baker

  War, Play, People

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• You talk to your enemies, not just your friends.

  James Baker

  Enemy

  "Hardball" with Mike Barnicle, www.nbcnews.com. December 7, 2006.

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

  James Baker

  Veterans Day, Military, Gun

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• Never let the other fellow set the agenda.

  James Baker

  Agendas, Live By, Fellows

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• It's not appeasement to talk to your enemies.

  James Baker

  Enemy, Appeasement

  "Time for Bush to talk to Iran and Syria" by Simon Tisdall, www.theguardian.com. OCtober 24, 2006.

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

  James Baker

  Doing Nothing, Sometimes, Right Time

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• Sometimes you move publicly, sometimes privately. Sometimes quietly, sometimes at the top of your voice.

  James Baker

  Moving, Voice, Quiet

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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.

  James Baker

  Hype, President, Trying

  "36 Days that Gripped the Nation" by CNN, www.cnn.com. January 21, 2001.

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

  James Baker

  White, Tennis, House

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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.

  James Baker

  Military, Thinking, Sight

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• I understand personally, ... that it is frustrating to lose presidential elections by narrow margins.

  James Baker

  Presidential, Election, Frustrating

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

  James Baker

  Machines, Republican, Democrat

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