Howard Baker President Quotations

I think the friendship and mutual admiration between the prime minister and the president will facilitate that.

It is not our purpose to second-guess what other agencies are doing or what the department's doing, but rather to make sure that we know the facts as best they can be ascertained, and to make appropriate recommendations to the secretary and to the president on how this can be avoided, how other challenges to national security may be dealt with,

It is almost always the cover-up rather than the event that causes trouble, and I see no evidence of a cover-up here, ... What did the president know and when did he know it?

The President said at Camp David that he embraced the reform movement as described by the Prime Minister. And the President of course will speak for himself. I imagine that he supports the Prime Minister in his general efforts to reform the structure and procedures of this economy so that the economy can move forward. America prospers when Japan prospers.

The welfare of the planet and its environment is paramount. But what we do, and do equally and evenhandedly, is more difficult to identify. I have no doubt in mind that President Bush is serious in his determination to reexamine the overall issue and that would include reexamining the language of the Kyoto treaty.

What did the president know, and when did he know it?

Eventually, somebody is going to be a hero, and somebody's going to be president. Not necessarily the same person.