Andrew Card Quotes (46 Quotes)

It would be wrong for me to speculate on what the Defense Department feels is in the best interests of the national security of this country and the security of the region,

I think we're probably looking at the week of June 5th, ... He'll probably want to sign it when Congress is back in Washington.

There are over 100 entities in the federal government that have something to do with homeland security.

The president wants responsible action on global climate change, and he is ready to take responsible action.

It will be very difficult for us to have a post-convention bump, ... Al Gore, on the other hand, will probably get a big bump because his base is fractured and he'll go to Los Angeles and their base will come together.

But by that point, Bush was only fine-tuning a machine whose design had already been determined. By handing the task of devising a vast new Cabinet agency to a few trusted aides, Bush ceded much of his own power to shape the policy. He could have picked the lesser of the options that Card provided him, but his reliance on his aides made it almost certain that he would approve their recommendation. There were options throughout this paper, and frankly I guided him toward options, ... You aren't going to win that one.

We'll be prepared if he announces them -- he or she - early, or announce it as a candidate during the convention, ... I'll be prepared to give them all the options to make it work.

President Bush decided to give Sen. Kerry the respect of more time to reflect on the results of this election, ... The president will be making a statement later today.

The U.N. can meet and discuss, but we don't need their permission.

But Card wasn't there to prepare Bush for his meetings in Europe. Instead, he presented the President with a 1.5-in.-thick binder of eight policy options for reorganizing the Federal Government to guard against terrorist threats. Included was an idea Bush had resisted for months the creation of the Department of Homeland Security, the first new Cabinet-level department in more than a decade. Card walked Bush through the proposals and showed him a case study of how Harry Truman created the Pentagon in 1947. One option Bush rejected, Card says, was to move the National Guard from the Defense Department to the new department. And the overhaul did not encompass the agencies most in need of reform--the FBI and the sprawling U.S. intelligence community. Taking on those powerful bureaucracies would have meant a bigger war than Bush was ready to wage. The options were gradations from do nothing to do it all, ... pretty close to do it all.

Democrats won the popular vote in the race for the White House,

There are consequences to jobs in the United States and they are already starting to show up. We know that the passenger car market share for the domestic manufacturers dropped in the last quarter last year.

He'd like to see Saddam come clean and disarm, bring those weapons of mass destruction to a parking lot and allow them to be destroyed, ... He'd like to see a regime change in Iraq, so the Iraqi people can live in freedom and have more liberties -- and Saddam Hussein can still do that. The burden is on Saddam Hussein.

We would not recommend that people allow themselves to be used by a tyrant and a dictator who has a history of doing horrible things to even his own people as well as his neighbors, ... So this is not the time for people to call themselves human shields.

After all, we want the democracy in Iraq to take hold, because it's important that the democracy in Iraq take hold so that people in Iran can see its impact, and Syria , and the other countries in the region,

Secretary Rumsfeld is doing a spectacular job, and the president has great confidence in him, ... This Week.

There will be members on the platform committee, the rules committee, the credentials committee and I'm expecting Sen.McCain to take a leading role in the convention and in the campaign,

Working in the White House is a tremendous privilege. But it is even a greater honor to serve as the president's chief of staff, especially to you, Mr. President.

The president has changed the way Washington talks about its job. Civility is back in Washington, and Democrats and Republicans can have a disagreement without being disagreeable, and that means that we can get work done for the American people.

This should not be about just saying no to any agenda that the president puts forward. The president's agenda is really the American agenda. He campaigned on it, the people expect him to put it forward and he will,

I encourage you to understand that we have a broader responsibility in thinking about the war in terror as just denying an attack today or winning a battle in Afghanistan or a challenge in Iraq. It's really about changing the nature of that part of the world,

We have a lot of priorities that would come before campaign finance reform, but we do respect the leadership that John McCain has offered in this area, ... Face the Nation.

I expect that whoever is named commissioner, either acting or confirmed, will know that it's not possible to give the FDA the kind of strong new leadership that is needed to reinvigorate the agency on a part-time basis.

Victory is the most important aspect in Iraq, because victory in Iraq will help us have victory in the War on Terror.

great privilege and a great honor.

before taking military action.

wonderful allies in this war against terrorists.

Ever since the Gulf War ended, we've been working to try to minimize the amount of time and the size of the footprint that U.S. forces have in Saudi Arabia,

I know that the Iranian people are looking with great excitement to see what happens in Iraq because the Iranian people love democracy, ... And they certainly would love to have a chance to have a democracy that wasn't run by a theocracy. And I think that

They spend quality time together, just the two of them. I'll walk into the Oval Office and they're talking, and I'll walk out and shut the door.

If we don't find that happening, all of the progress expected under the trade agreement could disappear. So an excessively weak yen would jeopardize success under the auto agreement.

You shouldn't presume that all quotes that are in a magazine or a newspaper are accurate.

He had a vision for changing our Medicare system, for bringing more people into the reality that our government should be a partner in preventing people from getting sick ... and that was part of our motivation for changing the Medicare system, and we are in the midst of a revolution in Medicare that will, for many, many generations have real results that will be good for America and good for American citizens,

Don't believe everything that you read in the newspapers.

We like to mix things up so you'll pay more attention.

Sound is important. Obviously, we want the delegates, the people in the hall, and the people outside the hall, to hear what's going on here.

He expressed his willingness to work with us, to make sure transition works well, ... The Early Show.

Kyoto was a flawed process. There isn't one industrialized country around the world that has ratified that treaty, and so that is a non-starter.

I do not see my job as being anything other than a staffer responsible for the staff, ... It's my job to facilitate the president's ability to get the best out of his staff.

Our economy would not do very well if people just worked for the government.

He is helping to lead our troops as they meet an awesome responsibility to protect us and to bring freedom to others. He's also transforming the military. And any time you do that, there are controversies.

Victory is the only option. And we will be victorious in Iraq.

We have to work together with our allies around the world -- especially the Japanese, the South Koreans, the Russians and the Chinese -- to demonstrate that North Korea's actions are inappropriate, ... We don't want the Korean Peninsula to have any nuclear weapons on it.

It reminds people of the mission at hand.

She's leaving when the president has one of the highest approval ratings on record. From here, it can only go down. And when it does, you know who they're going to blame. They're gonna blame Andy Card!

Harriet is an outstanding person ... I look forward to her hearings and I look forward to her confirmation and I look for to her taking that oath. It means so much to all of us,