71 Quotes by James Baker

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

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

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

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

Sometimes an active policy is best advanced by doing nothing until the right time - or never.

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.

You talk to your enemies, not just your friends.

Never let the other fellow set the agenda.

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!