64 Quotes by John Podesta

Our administration has already moved to liberalize export controls on encryption, allowing more companies to export the technology to more end users. And we've done so while maintaining a framework necessary to protect our national security, ... Today we are announcing significant new updates.

That doesn't necessarily mean they have to have an explicit proposal that they put forward that all Democrats sign up to, but I think they need to throw some ideas out that, at least directionally, point the way forward.

I think he's done something that I think President Clinton did not do in midterm races or even in his own re-election,

You actually need one of these to get on the airplane,

We never discussed any matters having to do with any of the things that have been alleged by his critics. There was no wrongdoing.

wants us to be ready to govern on day one, and so he pledged to work with us.

We're trying ... to bend ears, not break peoples' arms,

First and foremost, when I think of him - I'm prejudiced; I worked for the guy for six and a half years - when I think of him, I think of him first and foremost as an idea politician.

This tax cut is bloated. It uses up the entire surplus. It provides not one cent for Medicare. It provides not one cent to extend the solvency of Social Security. It will not result in paying down the debt.