“Presidents don't have the benefit of hindsight. You have to make difficult decisions based on the information that's before you at that moment.” MomentsDifficultPresidentDecisionInformationBenefitsThat MomentHindsightDifficult Decisions Author:Marco Rubio
“As the briefer, my job is to carry CIA`s best information and best analysis to the president of the United States and make sure he understands it.” StatesJobsPresidentUnitedUnited StatesInformationAnalysisCia Author:Michael Morell
“When you're bringing in a fairly unknown candidate challenging a sitting president, the population needs a lot more information than reduced coverage provides.” NeedsPresidentChallengesInformationSittingPopulationCandidatesCoverage Author:Walter Cronkite
“Not everyone is sold on crisis consultants. Linda Gray, assistant vice president and director of news and information at the University of Central Florida in Orlando, says that to a certain extent, the worse the crisis, the closer to home you should deal with it. .. You ought to be dealing with the crisis, not explaining things to somebody else.” ShouldHomeCertainPresidentDealsInformationOughtDirectorsNewsCrisisUniversityVicesGrayFloridaExplainingAssistantsVice PresidentConsultantsOrlandoExplaining Things Author:Linda Gray
“[Footnote:] Pliny the Elder described a Whale called "Balaena or Whirlpool, which is so long and broad as to take up more in length and breadth than two acres of ground." This brings up again the old question: Are the classics doomed? Our ancestors believed that four years of this sort of information would inevitably produce a President, or at least a Cabinet Member. It didn't seem to work out that way.” WayYearsLongTwoSeemsPresidentFourInformationProduceMembersWork OutLengthBroadsFour YearsAncestorDoomedEldersWhalesCabinetsBreadthAcresFootnotesWhirlpools Author:Will Cuppy
“You cannot give the vice president the authority to declassify specific information and then turn around and say he can just give carte blanche to an assistant of his to declassify whatever he wants.” WantGivingTurnsPresidentInformationAuthorityVicesAssistantsVice PresidentBlanche Author:Joe Biden
“In general I saw my job as the first president whose full term would be served after the Cold War in a global information society where we were interdependent but not integrated. And therefore, we were vulnerable to the worst, and able to seize the best, of what's going on in the world.” WorldFirstsWarWould BeAbleJobsPresidentTermSawsWorstInformationColdVulnerableCold WarIntegratedInformation Society Author:William J. Clinton
“The fact that the president was willing to reveal classified information for political gain and put the interests of his political party ahead of America's security shows that he can no longer be trusted to keep America safe.” FactsShowsAmericaPoliticalPresidentInterestPartySecurityInformationWillingSafeGainsTrustedPolitical PartiesClassified Information Author:Howard Dean
“Libby was advised by the vice president of the United States that Wilson's wife worked at the CIA in the counterproliferation division. Libby understood that the vice president had learned this information from the CIA.” StatesPresidentUnitedUnited StatesWifeInformationUnderstoodVicesDivisionCiaVice PresidentWilson Author:Patrick Fitzgerald
“It is worth reminding that being president is a tough job for anybody, and particularly so in the information age. There's such a glut of information. Anything a president says or does is picked up on the Internet or the 24/7 news media and criticized almost instantly. Leaders persuade through their words and as such their words need to be measured and well chosen. It is a tough job.” NeedsWellsDoeAgeJobsPresidentLeaderMediaInformationInternetNewsToughChosenRemindingInformation AgeNews Media Author:Donald Rumsfeld
“Republicans are now saying that Dan Rather should lose his job because he misled the country with bogus information. Which is odd because the Democrats are saying the exact same thing about President Bush.” ShouldCountryJobsPresidentLosesInformationRepublicanDemocratOddPresident BushMisled Author:Jay Leno
“FDR, JFK, LBJ [all Democratic presidents ] we have a pretty long list of presidents who maybe were not entirely forthcoming with intelligence information before they went to war, so I'd be cautious against making legal cases against the administration.” LongWarPresidentCasesInformationDemocraticListsAdministrationCautiousBe CautiousForthcomingLbj Author:Barack Obama
“If national pride is ever justifiable or excusable it is when it springs, not from power or riches, grandeur or glory, but from conviction of national innocence, information and benevolence.” IfsPresidentInformationPrideSpringGloryConvictionRichesInnocenceGrandeurBenevolenceNational Pride Book:Works: with a life of the author Source: Works: with a life of the author
“I am pleased that the President has signed an Executive Order this week requiring federal agencies to disclose information about prices and quality of healthcare services.” OrderPresidentQualityWeekInformationAgencyExecutivesHealthcareExecutive Orders Author:Timothy Murphy
“Our democratic values also include - and our national security demands - open and transparent government. Some information obviously needs to be protected. And since his first days in office, President Obama has worked to strike the proper balance between the security the American people deserve and the openness our democratic society expects.” PeopleNeedsFirstsGovernmentValuesPresidentSecurityInformationBalanceDemandOfficeDeserveDemocraticStrikesOpennessPresident ObamaProtectedNational SecurityTransparentDemocratic SocietyDemocratic Values Author:John O. Brennan
“One of the things that will probably need to be addressed is in the treatment of history, i.e. the Presidential Papers Act. If they can act with impunity, if they know that what they're doing is not going to see the light of day anytime in their lifetime, if they have the right to withhold information from the public, then presidents are given a vastly freer hand.” IfsKnowsNeedsHandsLightGivenPresidentInformationPaperLifetimePresidentialTreatmentPapersImpunity Author:Ted Gup
“It will be important to restore those provisions, those disclose provisions, those release provisions so that presidents are indeed held accountable and their information and papers are made public.” MadeImportantPresidentInformationPaperReleasePapersProvision Author:Ted Gup