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James Baker
American
Politician
About the author
Sometimes you move publicly, sometimes privately. Sometimes quietly, sometimes at the top of your voice.
James Baker,
American
Politician
#Voice
You don't need to know who's playing on the White House tennis court to be a good president.
James Baker,
American
Politician
#President
#Court
#Tennis
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,
American
Politician
#Time
#President
#First
#History
Sometimes an active policy is best advanced by doing nothing until the right time - or never.
James Baker,
American
Politician
#Time
#Right
#Nothing
#Policy
Never let the other fellow set the agenda.
James Baker,
American
Politician
I understand personally that it is frustrating to lose presidential elections by narrow margins.
James Baker,
American
Politician
#Elections
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,
American
Politician
#Saying
#Energy
#Excess