James Baker Quotes

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.

It's not appeasement to talk to your enemies.

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.

Never let the other fellow set the agenda.

Sometimes you move publicly, sometimes privately. Sometimes quietly, sometimes at the top of your voice.

You don't need to know who's playing on the White House tennis court to be a good president

I understand personally, ... that it is frustrating to lose presidential elections by narrow margins.

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.

If you're not gonna pull the trigger, don't point the gun.

Machines are neither Republicans nor Democrats and therefore can never be consciously or even unconsciously biased.