Lanny Davis Quotations

Many lawyers are, media-wise, brain-dead. Bob gets how to be a lawyer and communicate effectively. Lawyers cannot operate just by no-commenting anymore.

Since last August, the new chairman of the board, Roel Pieper, came up against a cesspool of financial issues,

But they now are living day to day without having the slightest idea about how to control where this is going.

But for peaceful purposes and when agreements can be worked out and when understandings can be had then what we are talking about is economic development opportunities, peaceful and useful opportunities... Then I think we are on the same page.

He was the go-to person in the Clinton White House.

He focuses on the half-empty glass. But it is equally true to say the glass is half-full.

There is nobody on either side of the aisle that thinks there was anything even possible that Sandy could have done deliberately here,

He cannot erase the fact that he put his privacy rights ahead of the need to find that young woman.

He cannot erase that, whether he's innocent or not -- and I assume he is, ... Late Edition with Wolf Blitzer.

Knowing those animals are locked up, not able to do any more harm that's one satisfaction. I do not look at them as humans. Humans don't do that.

I'm sure a sitting Supreme Court justice believes that providing some final closure on all these legal arguments might be a good thing here.

The president has stated that he cannot say that out of the hundreds and hundreds of calls he made to supporters that he never asked for financial support. He said that he cannot recall specifically asking for contributions during these calls, though he may well have.

The problem with energy taxes is that the poor and middle class subsidize the wealthy, and environmentalists tend to forget that.

Voluntarily appearing in front of a congressional committee in public does not violate separation of powers.

We gave them what we thought they wanted.

When problems reach a critical mass, as they have in this White House, a feeling of futility and a total lack of control sets in.

There are limits when free speech becomes bigotry. We are trying to set limits while still protecting free speech.

When you are under siege and you have to react to every day's crises and the media are in a feeding frenzy, it is hard to stay on message, let alone in control of your message,

Finally, we are going to have the chance to have a court hear the facts that the prosecutors refused to allow the jury to hear, which is why 5 out of 12 jurors asked for this result. Truth and facts are what make our system of justice work.

There's no cause and effect between that particular incident and the policy that had been debated and evolving way before those contributions came in.

Tell it early, tell it all and tell it yourself. The rules are the same whether you're a president, a corporate CEO or a baseball player.

It's a self-created nightmare. Cheney took a non-story, or a minor story, and created a huge negative story because of his stubbornness and his arrogance.

The news today is just the tip of the iceberg for L & H. This is a classic story of the chicken coming home to roost.

It's deja vu all over again. We made the same arguments in the Clinton administration and ultimately we surrendered. And Sandy Berger testified on the China matter and campaign finance. Sooner or later, transparency wins out over that principle. You might as well do it earlier rather than later.

I know people who describe him as a very decent man. So he starts out with a reservoir of open-mindedness among even arch-liberal Democrats like myself.

In this presumption-of-guilt culture, which is what has come about in Washington in the last 10 or 15 years, there must be a sense of anger there and an inability to manage the facts.

I recommend that Cheney do a press conference and answer every question,

If he had asked for the ship's speed, we would have given it to him in 10 seconds. The information he provided to The Courant is either a result of his attorneys not sharing information they had with him, or he flat-out said something he knew not to be true. Maybe in the future he should be in better communications with the lawyers.