some random quotes

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The former treasury secretary accuses Vice President Dick Cheney of not being an honest broker, but, with a handful of others, part of "a praetorian guard that encircled the president" to block out contrary views. "This is the way Dick likes it," says O’Neill.



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"I glance at the headlines, just to get kind of a flavor," he told Brit Hume of Fox News last month. But, "I rarely read the stories" because "a lot of times there's opinions mixed in with news." Instead, "I get briefed by [White House Chief of Staff] Andy Card and Condi [Rice, the national security adviser] in the morning."

The president concluded, "The best way to get the news is from objective sources. And the most objective sources I have are people on my staff who tell me what's happening in the world." Bush conceded that Rice and Card "probably read the news themselves." - George W. Bush



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[O'Neil] says the president was "like a blind man in a roomful of deaf people. There is no discernible connection,"



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I’ve been increasingly concerned since 9/11. The strategy was going the wrong way. It was a sort of “bait and switch” tactic. We had Osama bin Laden; he wasn’t enough of an enemy, I guess, wasn’t clear – wanted to get something more substantial. Let’s go back to those old guys that we didn’t like the last time, finish off Saddam Hussein." - Gen. Wesley Clark



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a White House spokesman at the time remarked that the president "considers any opposition to his policies to be no less than an act of treason." After Sept. 11, he told a reporter: "I'm the commander — see, I don't need to explain — I do not need to explain why I say things. That's the interesting thing about being president. Maybe somebody needs to explain to me why they say something, but I don't feel like I owe anybody an explanation."


Last edited by whomod; 2004-01-14 12:22 AM.