Ari Fleischer Quotes

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• The president of the United States and the secretary of defense would not assert as plainly and bluntly as they have that Iraq has weapons of mass destruction if it was not true, and if they did not have a solid basis for saying it.

  Ari Fleischer

  Mass Destruction, Iraq, President

  "White House: Iraq has mass-destruction weapons". www.cnn.com. December 5, 2002.

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• 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

  Thinking, Mass Destruction, Iraq

  Press Briefing with Ari Fleischer, georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov. April 10, 2003.

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• We know for a fact that there are weapons there.

  Ari Fleischer

  Wmd, Mass Destruction, Iraq

  "State of Denial". Book by Bob Woodward, October 2, 2006.

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• 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

  Stupid, Thinking, Mass Destruction

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

  Ari Fleischer

  People, Hussein, Chance

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• The press is hostile to Donald Trump, they always will be. And Donald Trump is happy to return the favor. And you know what, he actually has the upper hand in that relationship.

  Ari Fleischer

  Hands, Favors, Upper Hand

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• It's so much easier to do press if you take positions that the press likes than to take conservative Republican positions.

  Ari Fleischer

  Likes, Conservative, Republican

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• 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

  Feet, Mountain, Gathering

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• The greatest threat to the security of the people of North Korea comes from the government of North Korea.

  Ari Fleischer

  Government, Korea, People

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

  Ari Fleischer

  War, Mass Destruction, Iraq

  "The Rachel Maddow Show" with Rachel Maddow, www.msnbc.com. August 31, 2010.

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• This is a massive crisis for the press, and the degree now that the press revs up its scrutiny and its opposition to Donald Trump, as opposed to being neutral and fair to Donald Trump - they will compound their own problem, because Republicans don't trust them, independents largely don't trust them, and the press risks just being credible to only one party in America.

  Ari Fleischer

  Party, America, Risk

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• The press lost credibility with Republicans and independents during the Obama years, setting itself up for the damage that's going to be done during the Trump years.

  Ari Fleischer

  Years, Done, Damage

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• 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

  War, People, Looks

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• I think it's important for the people to see the government is functioning.

  Ari Fleischer

  Thinking, Government, People

  Twitter post from Sep 11, 2014

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• If he declares he has none, then we will know that Saddam Hussein is once again misleading the world.

  Ari Fleischer

  Wmd, Mass Destruction, Iraq

  "White House Awaits Iraqi Report With Skepticism". "CNN Live On Location", www.cnn.com. December 2, 2002.

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• 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

  President, Answers, Delicate

  "CNN Reliable Sources", www.cnn.com. June 1, 2003.

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

  Ari Fleischer

  Thinking, Light, Republican

  "What James Carville doesn't get about Republicans" By Ari Fleischer, www.cnn.com. March 6, 2012.

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

  Ari Fleischer

  Scare, Tin, Needs

  "Ari Fleischer gives inside account of 9/11 on Twitter", www.foxnews.com. September 11, 2013.

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• I get a kick out of Democrats thinking they know how handicap a GOP race.

  Ari Fleischer

  Thinking, Race, Handicaps

  "What James Carville doesn't get about Republicans" By Ari Fleischer, www.cnn.com. March 6, 2012.

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• 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

  Hands, Joy, Tears

  "What James Carville doesn't get about Republicans" By Ari Fleischer, www.cnn.com. March 6, 2012.

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• 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

  Mean, Government, House

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• 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

  Country, Growth, Sacred Things

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• 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

  Organization, President, Hussein

  "Powell: 'The clock continues to tick", www.cnn.com. March 7, 2003.

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• ...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

  Believe, Blessed, Goal

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• The right thing to do is to let the dust settle.

  Ari Fleischer

  Dust, Settling, Things To Do

  Twitter post from Sep 11, 2014

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