Ari Fleischer Quotes (327 Quotes)

The government of Libya has not yet satisfied these requirements.

The Senate leadership needs to build a bridge that brings people together. They won't be able to get anything done for the country if they make it a one-way road. This two-thirds notion is a formula for partisanship, gridlock and inaction.

I think it is fair to say that the nation is on the threshold of having a patients' bill of rights that can be signed into law, ... There is some additional work that needs to be done, but many of the differences that remain are easily bridgeable.

In the president's eyes, Yasser Arafat has never played a role as someone who could be trusted or was effective, and so that's why the president is focused on the Palestinian people and their just needs and their just concerns. And the president's focus is less on any one individual and more on the structures, the government, the authority the Palestinian people deserve.

His statement that he is not encouraged and his skepticism is based on 11 years and empirical evidence and behavior from Saddam Hussein in which he violated United Nations resolutions and did everything he could to thwart the inspectors,

On the question of headway, I think it's fair to say that every time the president meets with foreign leaders and the topic of Iraq comes up, the president thinks it's a constructive exchange of ideas.

all components of the Iraqi community, not one community versus another, not one community over another.

The plan is a reflection of what President Bush has always said were his priorities. Our nation has not had a comprehensive energy policy in years, and that has contributed to the sky-high price of gasoline and energy.

These grand news conferences of the past are designed for a little more theatre than they are for information.

that's government property that is now going to have to replaced or fixed.

The largest percentage reductions come for people at the lowest income ranges.

The president said in the 2000 campaign that he supported the assault weapons ban because he thought it was reasonable, ... He stated then that he would support the reauthorization of it, and he states that again today.

Chairman Arafat has not earned the president's trust.

There are so many people in need that the federal government is not getting the job done.

The United States, in the process of passing on information, as part of an ongoing operation, did its best to make certain that all the rules were followed.

As the president has said, if the United Nations will not disarm Saddam Hussein, it will be another international organization, a coalition of the willing that will be made up of numerous nations that will disarm Saddam Hussein,

The president hopes that by going to the retreats of the other parties -- as well, of course, as his own party -- that people across the country will see our government works together well, ... Americans want to see Washington focus less on bickering and more on working.

If you allow those who are the most vocal and most antagonistic to get a meeting with the president for fear that publicity will hurt you if you don't, you're creating incentives for your critics to become even more antagonistic and more vocal. Then, you're forever stuck in Will you or won't you meet You'll no longer lead. You'll just wrestle with meetings.

I think the president understands how the U.N. works. And when the president went up there, he said that this would be a matter of days and weeks, not months. And it is not a matter of months.

I'm not going to discuss the trip from a political point of view, because that's not the purpose of the trip. She's going because she's concerned about the humanitarian crisis and wants to personally assess the role of the United States should and could play.

There is no provision under international law prohibiting Yemen from accepting delivery of missiles from North Korea. While there is authority to stop and search, in this instance there is no clear authority to seize the shipment of Scud missiles from North Korea to Yemen. Therefore, the merchant vessel is being released.

Much of the humanitarian problems of Iraq existed because of Saddam Hussein's regime and the conditions he imposed on the Iraqi people before the first shot was fired in this war,

The president has asked the secretary to go to the Middle East to secure efforts to preserve the cease-fire and to build upon it.

I think again the core of what the president said wasn't that America will do this for you or America will do this or even that this is a speech aimed a foreign leader or foreign government,

First things first. There will come an appropriate time to do all appropriate look-backs. His focus is on events this morning.

This is a healthy sign for the Republican Party under the leadership of President Bush and the weakness of the Democrats' attacks,

He believes that this money will help them do a better job, have more resources to cure and fight diseases, including cancer and Parkinson's, up and down the line.