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Former White House Press Secretary

Ari Fleischer is a former White House Press Secretary under President George W. Bush, serving from 2001 to 2003. He is recognized for his role in shaping the administration's communication strategy during the early years of the Bush presidency.

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“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.”

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“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.”

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“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?”

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“One of the reasons people love sports is because it's non-political. And to the degree that Donald Trump puts sports organizations like golf tournaments in difficult positions, they won't want anything to do with him, i think all of this is evidence that Donald Trump is finding it a lot harder to be a candidate than he probably anticipated.”

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“There is something democratic about grass-roots, widespread money support. There is something anti-democratic about one person propping up a candidate who can't make it.”

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“The right thing to do is to let the dust settle.”

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“Iraq has tremendous resources that belong to the Iraqi people. And so there are a variety of means that Iraq has to be able to shoulder much of the burden for ther own reconstruction.”

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“There are certain times you rattle the press's cages, and other times you don't, and you have to be discerning about it.”

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“If you are ever uncomfortable or are unsure of something, you attribute it.”

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“It's so much easier to do press if you take positions that the press likes than to take conservative Republican positions.”

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“This is a massive crisis for the press, and the degree now that the press revs up its scrutiny and its opposition to Donald Trump, as opposed to being neutral and fair to Donald Trump - they will compound their own problem, because Republicans don't trust them, independents largely don't trust them, and the press risks just being credible to only one party in America.”

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“The press lost credibility with Republicans and independents during the Obama years, setting itself up for the damage that's going to be done during the Trump years.”

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“The press is hostile to Donald Trump, they always will be. And Donald Trump is happy to return the favor. And you know what, he actually has the upper hand in that relationship.”

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

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“I don't expect the press to say thank you for the efforts that I make.”

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“I think it's important for the people to see the government is functioning.”

People Thinking Important Government

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“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.”

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“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”

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“Given the chance to throw off a brutal dictator like Saddam Hussein, people will rejoice.”

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“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.”

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

Needs Terrorist Get Back Scare Horns Tin

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“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.”

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“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.”

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“If he declares he has none, then we will know that Saddam Hussein is once again misleading the world.”

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“We know for a fact that there are weapons there.”

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“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.”

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

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“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.”

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“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.”

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“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.”

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“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.”

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“I get a kick out of Democrats thinking they know how handicap a GOP race.”

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“A safety net for the poor indeed requires some level of income redistribution.”

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“If Democrats were good at thinking like Republicans, they would see the light and stop being Democrats.”

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“...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.”

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“The greatest threat to the security of the people of North Korea comes from the government of North Korea.”

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“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.”

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“The president typically never does comment on anything involving the Supreme Court cases, Supreme Court ruling, or Supreme Court finding, typically.”

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“The 2000s were marked by terrorism and a bipartisan desire to fight it.”

Desire Fighting Terrorism Bipartisan

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“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.”

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“When President George W. Bush cut taxes, he cut them for everyone.”

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About the Author

Born: October 13, 1960
Known for: Former White House Press Secretary
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