Sometimes an active policy is best advanced by doing nothing until the right time - or never. James Baker More Quotes by James Baker More Quotes From James Baker 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 excess carbon dioxide emission, I think we ought to listen. James Baker excessenergythinking 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 MASSES NEVERTHELESS AGAINST THE DEVIL. THUS WE WERE FORCED AFTER THE WAR, TO PLAY ALONG WITH THIS DEVILS' SCENARIO. WE COULD NOT POSSIBLY HAVE MADE OUR PEOPLE CLEAR (TO THEM) THAT THE WAR WAS ONLY AN ECONOMIC PREVENTATIVE MEASURE! James Baker playwarpeople You talk to your enemies, not just your friends. James Baker enemy It's not appeasement to talk to your enemies. James Baker appeasementenemy Who could not be moved by the sight of that poor, demoralized rabble, outwitted, outflanked, outmanoeuvered by the U.S. military? Yet, given time, I think the press will bounce back. James Baker militarysightthinking 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 election for president. James Baker hypepresidenttrying If you're not gonna pull the trigger, don't point the gun. James Baker veterans-daygunmilitary Sometimes you move publicly, sometimes privately. Sometimes quietly, sometimes at the top of your voice. James Baker voicequietmoving Never let the other fellow set the agenda. James Baker fellowsagendaslive-by Machines are neither Republicans nor Democrats and therefore can never be consciously or even unconsciously biased. James Baker democratmachinesrepublican I understand personally, ... that it is frustrating to lose presidential elections by narrow margins. James Baker frustratingpresidentialelection You don't need to know who's playing on the White House tennis court to be a good president James Baker tenniswhitehouse I'm going to be working hard for Jeb Bush because I think Jeb Bush's clearly the cream of the crop of the Republicans who are going to run for the nomination, i've known Jeb Bush since Jeb Bush was Jeb Bush. I know what kind of President he would be. He would be an extraordinarily good President. He's very knowledgeable. He's very temperamental. He's suited for the job. James Baker politics I accepted Prime Minister of Israel at Prime Minister of Israel word, but you have to ask yourself what are the chances now of a two state solution. They're very bleak in my view. James Baker politics
