Ari Fleischer famous quotes

The greatest threat to the security of the people of North Korea comes from the government of North Korea.
-- Ari Fleischer

#Government #Korea #People

Having served as the majority spokesman for the House Ways and Means Committee after Republicans took the House in 1994, I've seen the promise and the peril of divided government before.
-- Ari Fleischer

#Mean #Government #House

Anytime James Carville, Paul Begala and David Axelrod hold hands and jump for joy, it's worth pondering how to turn their joy into tears.
-- Ari Fleischer

#Hands #Joy #Tears

I get a kick out of Democrats thinking they know how handicap a GOP race.
-- Ari Fleischer

#Thinking #Race #Handicaps

A safety net for the poor indeed requires some level of income redistribution.
-- Ari Fleischer

#Safety #Income #Levels

If Democrats were good at thinking like Republicans, they would see the light and stop being Democrats.
-- Ari Fleischer

#Thinking #Light #Republican

...President [Bush] believes that [high-energy consumption] is an American way of life, and that it should be the goal of policymakers to protect the American way of life. The American way of life is a blessed one.
-- Ari Fleischer

#Blessed #Believe #Goal

The press secretary who starts to narrow down or close the president's options because he answers delicate negotiating questions no longer serves the president.
-- Ari Fleischer

#President #Answers #Delicate

The president typically never does comment on anything involving the Supreme Court cases, Supreme Court ruling, or Supreme Court finding, typically.
-- Ari Fleischer

#President #Doe #Court

The 2000s were marked by terrorism and a bipartisan desire to fight it.
-- Ari Fleischer

#Fighting #Desire #Terrorism

If Mr. Obama wants to get things done, he must recognize that in Washington only the president has the power to make the first big move.
-- Ari Fleischer

#Moving #President #Done

When President George W. Bush cut taxes, he cut them for everyone.
-- Ari Fleischer

#Cutting #President #Taxes

The reason the world is in the spot it's in is because North Korea entered into an agreement and then did not keep up their terms of the agreement. They received aid in return for promising not to develop nuclear weapons. They took the aid, they ran with the aid and then they developed a nuclear weapons anyway.
-- Ari Fleischer

#Agreement #Korea #Nuclear

School choice is one of the strongest ways we have to educate our children, .. believes in school choice and he is going to work hard to enact school choice.
-- Ari Fleischer

#Children #Believe #Hard Work

Everyone now has a sacred cow in the tax code. For my money, the most sacred thing of all is our country and its growth, but the sacred cows have turned into a pack of wolves.
-- Ari Fleischer

#Country #Growth #Cows

I think you have always heard, and you continue to hear from officials, a measure of high confidence that, indeed, the weapons of mass destruction will be found.
-- Ari Fleischer

#Thinking #Iraq #Invasion

We have high confidence that they have weapons of mass destruction. That is what this war was about and it is about.
-- Ari Fleischer

#War #Iraq #Weapons

We believe in the fundamental strength of Israel's economy and have confidence in its long-term potential.
-- Ari Fleischer

#Believe #Israel #Long

I don't expect the press to say thank you for the efforts that I make.
-- Ari Fleischer

#Thank You #Effort #Saying Thank You

I think it's important for the people to see the government is functioning...
-- Ari Fleischer

#Thinking #Government #People

Most of the State of the Union will not be about Iraq. Most of the State of the Union will be about improving America's economy and providing greater access to health care for millions of American people, including senior citizens
-- Ari Fleischer

#Senior #Iraq #America

There is already a mountain of evidence that Saddam Hussein is gathering weapons for the purpose of using them. And adding additional information is like adding a foot to Mount Everest
-- Ari Fleischer

#Feet #Mountain #Gathering

Given the chance to throw off a brutal dictator like Saddam Hussein, people will rejoice.
-- Ari Fleischer

#People #Hussein #Chance

The president of the United States and the secretary of defense would not assert as plainly and bluntly as they have that Iraq has weapons of mass destruction if it was not true, and if they did not have a solid basis for saying it.
-- Ari Fleischer

#Iraq #President #United States

Bush to USSS: 'We need to get back to Wash. We don't need some tin horn terrorist to scare us off.'
-- Ari Fleischer

#Scare #Tin #Needs

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.
-- Ari Fleischer

#Organization #President #Hussein

I think the burden is on those people who think he didn't have weapons of mass destruction to tell the world where they are.
-- Ari Fleischer

#Stupid #Thinking #Iraq

If he declares he has none, then we will know that Saddam Hussein is once again...
-- Ari Fleischer

#Iraq #Hussein

We know for a fact that there are weapons there.
-- Ari Fleischer

#Iraq #Facts #Weapons

Well, there is no question that we have evidence and information that Iraq has weapons of mass destruction, biological and chemical particularly . . . all this will be made clear in the course of the operation, for whatever duration it takes.
-- Ari Fleischer

#Iraq #Weapons #Duration

Why then would people look to the United Nations as an instrument of peace, if instead all it is, is an instrument of putting out declarations that nobody intends to take seriously anyway?
-- Ari Fleischer

#People #Looks #Instruments