Barbara Olson Quotes

• In the mind of Bill Clinton, political considerations outweigh even life-and-death matters of great concern to his own law-enforcement officials, not to mention the nation.

  Barbara Olson

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Mind, Political

• Since the end of the Cold War, Soviet aggression had been replaced by a number of particularly venomous threats, from Timothy McVeigh to Osama bin Laden.

  Barbara Olson

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in War, Aggression

• He decided to plunge on with pardons over the department’s objections, or where he knew that there would be objections if he had let career prosecutors know what he was doing.

  Barbara Olson

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Decided

• Phones rang constantly, as if the White House was conducting some kind of pardon telethon.

  Barbara Olson

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Constantly

• Of all presidential perks, the pardon power has a special significance. It is just the kind of authority that would attract the special attention of someone obsessed with himself and his own ability to influence events.

  Barbara Olson

  Topics in Influence, Power

• There is one question that I don’t think Gary Condit can answer, and that I think is why we all aimed at Gary Condit, besides the fact that he has a relationship.

  Barbara Olson

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Question

• From what we’ve heard about George W., he has a lot issues that he wants to run on. They’re positive. They’re good. He thinks he’s got a good vision for America.

  Barbara Olson

  Topics in Positive

  Tags in Issues

• Hopefully, at some point, people will at least credit the Republicans with carrying out their oversight responsibilities and with pursuing a principled course of action even in the face of everyone’s short-attention spans.

  Barbara Olson

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in People, Hopefully

• The mainstream media has chosen their candidates and their issues, and they’re not the same as the GOP’s. They are going to be painted as the bad guys.

  Barbara Olson

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Media

• Mistakes were made is something we heard back in ’92, and that has sort of been the Clinton administration’s mantra. I can’t imagine that Al Gore is going to pick up that statement and carry it through the next election.

  Barbara Olson

  Topics in Mistake

• It’s difficult to believe that Al Gore was oblivious to the existing laws. He has to respond at some point.

  Barbara Olson

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Believe

• I think Gore does have to worry. He is tied to Bill Clinton. We know that there were telephone calls that he made from his office. We know that there were visits to the Buddhist temple.

  Barbara Olson

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Worry

• Al Gore seems to have found a great political ploy: Picking up whatever issue he is most vulnerable on and championing the cause. Perhaps he will start to champion perjury statutes and obstruction of justice.

  Barbara Olson

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Found

• I think that’s going to be an issue: Whether or not voters are going to get more of the same in a Clinton candidacy or whether she really is something unique and has something to offer apart from her husband.

  Barbara Olson

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Think, Issue

• The decision that has to be made was whether it was material, whether he knew he was lying under oath, whether he did it willfully. I think that’s required of any prosecutor who is charged with an investigation of this.

  Barbara Olson

  Topics in Decision

Barbara Olson (15)

Birth:	27th December, 1955
Death:	11th September, 2001
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Journalist

About

Barbara Olson was a lawyer and conservative American television commentator who worked for CNN, Fox News Channel, and several other outlets. She was a passenger on American Airlines Flight 77 en route to a taping of Bill Maher's television show Politically Incorrect when it was flown into the Pentagon in the September 11 attacks. Olson was working on her second book, The Final Days: The Last, Desperate Abuses of Power by the Clinton White House published October 2001 at the time of her death. She was a resident of Great Falls, Virginia.

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