Joe Lockhart Quotes (170 Quotes)

Republicans are onto the fact that the American public is demanding a prescription drug benefit as a part of Medicare, and we're going to get there.

I'm not certain -- given the familiarity they have with the issues, the amount of time they've had -- that more time is the answer here,

And if packaging this information focuses attention on it, it's all for the better.

The United States stands firmly in support of a solution that offers justice and human rights for all the citizens of a unified, peaceful and prosperous Sri Lanka.

sometime in the early morning hours of Thursday.

I think your question is generated from a statement put out from the Republican National Committee, and frankly we don't need the unsolicited advice from Mr. Nicholson.

The Republicans seem to want to draw attention away from the fact that they haven't been able to get their work done.

There is a real danger here that this can become a political issue, that this young boy will be a political football. And I think the president has made it very clear to everyone that they ought to stay away from politics here and stick to what the facts and the law dictate.

As we have said all along, there was no basis for taking them, there is no basis for holding them, and we will hold President Milosevic personally responsible for their care.

Obviously, we'll need to wait and see the details before making any formal comment.

We did not expect today to be a day where we had a breakthrough in the process. That is true. I have no breakthrough to report. On the other hand, the process has not broken down.

It's our hope that once China has had a chance to review and absorb the information that they'll understand that this was a tragic accident.

Why do we possibly need to delay this trial any longer The Senate now knows that they will not remove the president. And the Republican majority has to answer to the country of why they want to continue to extend this process,

We assume the prime minister or his delegation would inform us if they were preparing to leave, and they have not done so.

There's no discussion of putting (U.S.) troops into a combat situation there,

The White House used a lot of capital and were very adamant on the format of this debate, being very particular to do something that plays to Dick Cheney's strengths, and I assume, shielded some of his weaknesses, whatever those might be, but they insisted on this so-called 'Meet the Press'-type format and used up quite a bit of capital to get that,

There are times when no matter what you do it seems to blow up in your face, whether it's self-inflicted or inflicted from the outside.

ways to strengthen peace and stability, deepen democracy and civil society and promote economic reforms.

The tax is set at what the Congress and the president believe is an appropriate level to help.

I have no evidence that there is anyone in the White House involved in anything he's talking about. When you make a charge it is incumbent on you to substantiate the charge.

He wants to demonstrate his appreciation for the cooperation and support these countries gave in the face of some very difficult circumstances over the last few months. And he wants to do that personally.

It was all of their work. It was their legal analysis and their tax analysis that formed the foundation of the pardon. So ... it is incorrect to say that they were part of the pardon application. That was something that Rich attorney Jack Quinn did. But it was all of their work that persuaded the president that he ought to grant the pardon.

The same people who say there has been no ethnic cleansing in Kosovo are now saying they are withdrawing troops, and as evidence let you see 120 or 150 people getting on buses heading north.

The president expects all those who accept the conditional clemency grant to abide fully by its terms, including refraining from the use or advocacy of the use of violence for any purpose and obeying all the statutory conditions of parole,

The way the resolution is written we really don't know where we are going in this process after Wednesday, ... We don't know exactly what's going to happen after Wednesday and there are enough holes in this resolution that it can be opened up with a simple majority and we could be here for a very long time.

I think there is a bipartisan consensus among leaders in the Senate that not enough time has been put forward for this, the process is inadequate.

it's important that we continue to build on the initiatives the president has talked about for the last six years.

There's some fundamental issues of fairness about how the president and his legal team can prepare for the next phase of this process. We also understand the arithmetic of the Senate, which is there's 55 Republicans and 45 Democrats, so ultimately the Republicans can do what they feel is best, even if it's not fair to the president,

There are intense discussions and negotiations going on now between the two parties, ... I think they understand what they're up against, as far as the issues and the timing, and we'll just have to wait and see.

I think there's a premium on not jumping to conclusions,

We're beyond drafts now. There were three of four real drafts, and there were considerable changes from draft to draft. They're in the stage now that they're just throwing out pages and writing in the margins.

The bad news tends to breed bad news and oftentimes there is no way to get out of it other than to just wait it out.

Obviously, this is the last State of the Union before the millennium, and he will recognize that.

You have a situation where the Republican leadership is making the case for less cops and more guns and the Democratic leadership is making the case for more cops and less guns. I think that's a powerful message that needs to be articulated as we move toward the vote.

The president believes this is a year to make progress, and doesn't believe we can afford to take the year off.

it's not clear to me where the breakdown was.

I take responsibility for my own actions, ... I deeply regret it. I'm dealing with the people I have hurt the most. And I'll have nothing further to say.

Both the president and the prime minister believe it is important for them to meet at this time to discuss prospects for reaching an Israeli-Palestinian framework agreement... and assess the situation following Israel's withdrawal from Lebanon.

We have a real emergency here. The president believes it's unfortunate that Congress has sent down legislation that isn't clean.

At the direction of the president, United States military forces have launched a substantial military strike against Iraq.

in a good atmosphere the discussions have been serious ... both sides fully understand the difficulty, but understand what is ahead of them.

She thought it was a good meeting and Arafat thought it was important (for her) to take this time to listen to their point of view,

Theirs is a campaign that explicitly excluded Democrats in every way. But it's now very explicitly reaching out to Democrats, and, we think, they will be wholly unsuccessful.

The administration will work to ensure that all that have sustained losses in this fire are fully compensated.

Any agreement that meets our criteria of full, unfettered access to weapons of mass destruction sites and maintaining the integrity of the (U. N. inspection) teams would be welcome, but we're going to withhold judgment until we've had a chance to be briefed formally.

Both leaders in the delegations understand the time constraints we're under and are working through these issues in a way that this can get done before the president has to leave,

You can spend way too much time talking about things like optimism, pessimism, what your hopes are,

I have no intention to provide progress reports. It is clear the difficulty of these issues, and I think the best thing is to let the parties work on their differences.

What the president said to Sen. Graham was that we did not want to do this. We thought there was a better way, which is why we negotiated for three months,

President Yeltsin did mention his decision earlier in the day not to send additional ships to the region and reaffirmed that he will not allow Russia to be drawn into this conflict.