Charles Black Quotes (18 Quotes)

He's the president's alter ego on political and domestic policy,

He is 100 percent loyal to the president, and if the president or Andy Card asks him to do anything, he does it. They value him and his wisdom and what he adds to the team, so they let him do things his way.

He was an intensely interesting and fascinating man to me, ... I fell in love with him at first sight. It sounds corny, but that's what happened. But I don't think he did with me.

Having more money than the other candidates has always been important, but there is a bigger premium on it this time. There will be multimillion dollar advertising budgets needed for those large states.

A large-scale tax cheat is not a viable chief magistrate.

This sends Rove back to his previous job focusing on what he has done so well. Josh wants to organize the place in a way that he wants to.

They have been dealt a bad hand the last couple months. But now, hopefully, this special prosecutor business is not at the top of the news and they can get back to their agenda, as the president has tried to do this week with speeches on terrorism and Iraq.

As a general matter, it helps to have him out of the race and presumably out of the news.

No one's accusing Cheney of doing anything wrong. Who knows how long it will be before a trial takes place. Meantime, people will be fair-minded.

Andy did a very good job, and he did the job exactly the way the president wanted. Both he and Josh are capable. Probably the difference between them is that Josh has more experience on Capitol Hill and stronger relationships with the Congress.

That's probably some of the best real estate in San Diego. Office is like residential it's all about location. And that's a spectacular location. When you think about the companies that deal with the Navy, it makes sense to me that those companies would want to be in close proximity to the Navy.

I don't think anybody's leaving.

People don't see the war going well. And the president's got to keep going out virtually every day, talking about it and putting it in context. Personnel changes won't affect that. He's got to do that himself.

It's too early to say what the political environment will be in October. You always have to pick your spots. There are always some states and districts where it's better not to go late in the game. But there will be plenty of places Bush can go and do a lot of good.

If people get an understanding of what happened and how he feels about it, then in the long term, this isn't going to be a problem for him.

People were very upset. They all felt close to Scooter personally, but I think by Monday afternoon, they were going about their jobs, doing what they had to do.

I haven't noticed, for the most part, anything unusual going on.

The problem in the White House is everybody there's got a huge job and they all take incoming fire all day.