Howard Baker Quotes

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• The most difficult thing in any negotiation, almost, is making sure that you strip it of the emotion and deal with the facts.
• What did the president know, and when did he know it?
• Listen more often than you speak.
• You've got to guard against speaking more clearly than you think.
• 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…
• It is almost always the cover-up rather than the event that causes trouble.
• If you don't like the question that's asked, answer some other question.
• The central question is simply put: What did the president know and when did he know it?
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• We must examine then the concerns of the Government of Japan about the language of the treaty itself - of SOFA - and of the…
• 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…

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