Karen Hughes Quotes (137 Quotes)

I'm not naive. I know a lot of people that we're going to be visiting with disagree with us and certain of our policies.

I would hope that is not the case. I hope the people of the United Arab Emirates and the government will understand that in a democracy, there is a process of debate.

We have to be out there. We may not like everything they report. They may be putting out misinformation. They may incite violence. But we have to be out there.

Without intending to ... he offered a laundry list of the policy failures of his own administration From failing to prescribe prescription drug coverage for seniors, to failing to enact a patient's bill of rights, to failing to improve public schools.

We are now in uncharted waters. We're in an unprecedented period where a presidential candidate is going to court essentially to try to contest and overturn the results of an election that has now been certified.

We're very hopeful that as people get more information on everything that's taking place, we'll see a final bill come out that will satisfy our concerns.

We're just going to keep working on this as it evolves. We certainly want to make sure we continue to operate.

The Gallup Poll confirmed what we thought, which is the whole reason we set up the Coalition Information Center. We've got a big job ahead in communicating our values to the world.

What I did is open a door for conversation. That's how conversation starts.

After 40 years of war against terrorism and drug-trafficking Colombia is clearly winning.

We have had a very fundamental change in American policy toward the Middle East.

throughout the fall campaign, we will have multiple messages. That's the nature of the fall campaign.

It's an area of swing and independent voters. We hope Sen. McCain will help us reach out to these voters.

I was missing the opportunity to see my friends' children grow up, to have my son go to his friends' homes and be involved with their parents.

A lot of South America, the tropical breezes, the beauty and the Spanish feel like home to me.

Our campaign has called this morning. Our campaign political strategist Karl Rove has called the individual who was quoted in the newspaper about that ad and urged that group, whoever they are, to pull down that ad.

I think it's a very unseemly departure from tradition for the Senate majority leader to engage in that kind of partisanship when the U.S. president is carrying our country's message abroad.

Both President and Mrs. Bush feel strongly that out of the evil of Sept. 11 has come a great deal of good. As President Bush said, we're a nation awakened to terror but also a nation awakened to service, citizenship and compassion.

What the president will talk about tonight is the fact that what we've learned in Afghanistan has made it clear that, far from ending there, our war against terrorism is only beginning.

This is a big job with a lot of different moving pieces. Ed Murrow once famously said that there's no cash register that rings when a mind is changed. But I think over the long haul we can begin to shape a better perception in the Middle East.

We've worked at Indian River Inlet several times and once at Gordon's Pond in Rehoboth. The kids enjoy going back to the planting spot ... to see how their beach grass is doing.

But there was at least one official who apparently didn't get the word on his visiting VIP. In Jeddah, when Hughes paid a courtesy call on the Saudi Minister of Information, he greeted her by saying Tell me what you are seeking to hear I'm not sure what it is. ... I'm really here to listen.

We all know that the vice president is a world-class debater, ... We think that the pressure in this debate is really on Vice President Gore to try to change the dynamic of the race. The dynamic of the race is that voters want a change.

To every nation and every province and every local community across the globe that is standing with the American people and with those who hurt on the Gulf Coast, our entire nation thanks you for your support.

a chance to look back and think of all we've been through. It's been a remarkable three years in our history.

We in America take our freedoms very seriously. I believe women should be free and equal participants in society. I feel that as an American woman that my ability to drive is an important part of my freedom.

The third stop on my visit will be Turkey. Turkey is a very important democratic country, as well as being a bridge between Europe and Asia, and a key ally. We will be arriving in Turkey as they are preparing for EU accession talks. These talks are an event which we support in full.

I understand that many of the concerns are deep-seated. I'm probably not going to change many minds.

Neither he nor the United States government supports a coup -- the overthrow of a democratically elected government. What he was speaking to was what appears to be an encouraging prospect, that what has happened appears to have brought stability and resulted in an easing of tensions between Pakistan and India.

I was just walking through the Bone Center and I heard someone singing so I just walked in and thought it sounded good. I enjoyed the whole thing.

The governor has said he would not increase the age to qualify for Medicare, and he has made that abundantly clear on a number of occasions. If the vice president says otherwise, then he's deliberately engaging in falsehoods.

Governor Bush tonight said he has made his decision on a vice presidential nominee but has not yet notified that individual or told anyone else about his choice,

I expected a lot of people to disagree with our policy and they did,

We played a good third period and had some scoring chances. But against a team like that, it was much too little, much too late.

We need to foster a sense of common interest and common values among Americans and people of different faiths and different cultures.

The only people who would have had authorized access to that tape were the most senior members of our campaign, and so it appears that whoever sent that tape to the Gore campaign obtained it in some sort of unethical way.

I am here to listen and to learn and to work to strengthen the relationship and close partnership between our two countries,