John Podesta Quotes

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• I did answer all of the questions put to me today, ... Nothing in my testimony in any way contradicted the strong denials that the…
• I think ... that things are a little bit up for grabs right now...
• I believe that President Clinton considered the legal merits of the arguments for the pardon as he understood them, and he rendered his judgment, wise…
• Resignation is just simply out of the question...
• If medicine was practiced in 1965 the way it's practiced today, there's no question that prescriptions would have been included in Medicare.
• Realistically, I think we are not prepared to go home until we do get more teachers and lower class sizes...
• I think it’s time to open the books, on questions that have remained in the dark on the question of government investigations of UFOs, it’s…
• Finally, my biggest failure of 2014: Once again not securing the #‎ disclosure of the UFO files.
• I think that what we've been able to do is put together both a good group of scholars and analysts and people who aggressively want…
• This tough-love, winner-take-all narrative dominating policymaking is far too limited a way to think about how a complex, modern, diverse economy like ours expands and…
• I think if you look at yesterday's New York Times poll, particularly when you judge Democrats in Congress versus the Republicans in Congress, people put…
• I think that people have to have to have a sense of what ideas are one the progressive side, the Democratic side in order ultimately…
• If that's your definition of the Clinton faction, then I think that that seems to be in ascendancy. That might include a guy like John…
• If you ask the people who are professional political analysts, they would say that the way redistricting has worked, that the Republicans have something of…
• In fact, I think that Governor Clinton, when he was running, and President Clinton, when he was serving, actually governed with a wide range of…
• So I think in those circumstances, there's some potential that you could see a big pendulum swing like 1994, which people you thought weren't vulnerable…
• So I think it's important to communicate with the people in terms of what the real facts are on these proposals and try to have…
• Ultimately I think what people care about, particularly on an issue like Social Security, is not really what's right and what's left but what's right…
• It’s time to find out what the truth really is that’s out there,
• There are people who kind of gravitate towards running politics based on new ideas and issues, and that was what the secret was for Clinton.

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