Quotes by James Baker

• 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.
• 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.
• Never let the other fellow set the agenda.
• I understand personally that it is frustrating to lose presidential elections by narrow margins.
• 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.
• Life is like a sandwich—you fill it with the generosity you had at breakfast and the wisdom left over from dinner.
• Success is like a pizza: no matter how hard you try to cut corners, you still need all the right ingredients for a delicious result.