Howard Baker Quotes

• Never speak more clearly than you think.

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• The central question is simply put: What did the president know and when did he know it?

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  Tags in Question, Central

• You’ve got to guard against speaking more clearly than you think.

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• It is almost always the cover-up rather than the event that causes trouble.

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• Any time the United States government turns over an American citizen, including military personnel, to the government of another country, it is in our nature to want to make sure that they receive the best treatment, the fairest treatment, and the most humane treatment.

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  Tags in Citizen, Treatment, Humane, Turns

• Demography is changing us as we are older societies, we’re living longer. How the generations balance each other out, how that affects education and health care.

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• I intend to travel to Okinawa and to visit with Okinawa officials and the citizens of Okinawa at an early date. I will send my best analysis of that situation, including the local attitudes, back to Washington, to the government there.

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  Tags in Intend, Citizen

• The most difficult thing in any negotiation, almost, is making sure that you strip it of the emotion and deal with the facts. And there was a considerable challenge to that here and understandably so.

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  Tags in Negotiation, Strip

• We must examine then the concerns of the Government of Japan about the language of the treaty itself – of SOFA – and of the interim and further arrangements that have been made since 1995, and see whether or not we need to make any changes. Those are decisions I cannot make.

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  Tags in Concerns, Further, Interim, Sofa

• I think and hope and believe that the Japanese government and the people of Japan will be happy and content with the progress of justice in this case and that it will not become a great issue in the future.

  Howard Baker

  Tags in Content, Japanese

Howard Baker (10)

Birth:	15th November, 1925
Death:	26th June, 2014
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Politician

About

Howard Henry Baker Jr. was born in Huntsville, Tennessee, USA. He was an American politician and diplomat who served as a Republican U.S. Senator from Tennessee, Senate Minority Leader, and Senate Majority Leader. He served as President Reagan's Chief of Staff from February 1987 until July of 1988. He served as a United States Ambassador to Japan from 2001 to 2005. He graduated from the University of Tennessee College of Law in 1949. He received Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1984 and Order of the Paulownia Flowers in 2008 (Japan). He wrote several books include: No Margin for Error, Howard Baker's Washington, and Scott's Gulf.

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