"Sometimes an active policy is best advanced by……" — James Baker
"Sometimes an active policy is best advanced by doing nothing until the right time - or never."
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11 Quotes by James Baker
James Baker has 11 quotes on this site.
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If you're not gonna pull the trigger, don't point the gun.
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Never let the other fellow set the agenda.
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WE MADE A MONSTER OF HITLER, A DEVIL. THAT IS WHY (THEREFORE) WE COULD NOT AFTER THE WAR SAY OTHERWISE.…
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Sometimes you move publicly, sometimes privately. Sometimes quietly, sometimes at the top of your voice.
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I understand personally, ... that it is frustrating to lose presidential elections by narrow margins.
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Machines are neither Republicans nor Democrats and therefore can never be consciously or even unconsciously biased,
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You don't need to know who's playing on the White House tennis court to be a good president
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This is what happens, when, for the first time in modern history, a candidate resorts to lawsuits to try to…
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You talk to your enemies, not just your friends.
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When you have energy companies like Shell and British Petroleum, both of which are perhaps represented in this room, saying…
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More Active Quotes
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one of 1,204 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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There are more active volcanoes beneath the sea than on land by two orders of magnitude.
— Robert Ballard
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Science regards man as an aggregation of atoms temporarily united by a mysterious force called the life-principle. To the materialist,…
— Annie Besant
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The mental body, like the astral, varies much in different people; it is composed of coarser or of finer matter,…
— Annie Besant
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Curiosity, n. An objectionable quality of the female mind. The desire to know whether or not a woman is cursed…
— Ambrose Bierce
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Active Evil is better than Passive Good.
— William Blake
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I've always been on the side of science that tries to help man. I play an active part with the…
— Andrea Bocelli
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The traveler was active; he went strenuously in search of people, of adventure, of experience. The tourist is passive; he…
— Daniel J. Boorstin
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As an active member of the Air Force, Army and Mine Warfare Caucuses, I meet with enlisted personnel and officers…
— Allen Boyd
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Fortunately, Iranians are politically active worldwide.
— Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
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Memory in youth is active and easily impressible; in old age it is comparatively callous to new impressions, but still…
— Charlotte Bronte
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When the farmer can sell directly to the consumer, it is a more active process. There's more contact. The consumer…
— Jerry Brown
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We must look for ways to be an active force in our own lives. We must take charge of our…
— Les Brown
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