James Baker Quotes

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

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