“This is what happens, when, for the first time in modern history, a ca...” — James Baker Quote

“This is what happens, when, for the first time in modern history, a candidate resorts to lawsuits to try to overturn the outcome of an election for president.”

“You don't need to know who's playing on the White House tennis court to be a good president.”

“When you have energy companies like Shell and British Petroleum, both of which are perhaps represented in this room, saying there is a problem with excess carbon dioxide emission, I think we ought to listen.”

“Never let the other fellow set the agenda.”

“I understand personally that it is frustrating to lose presidential elections by narrow margins.”

“Sometimes an active policy is best advanced by doing nothing until the right time - or never.”

“For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.”

“I have always said to young artists that scholastic training and the studying of art history are crucial to fully developing as an artist.”

“I was France.”

“The Internet was supposed to be the greatest tool of global communications and means of sharing knowledge in human history. And it is. But it has also become the most effective instrument of mass surveillance and potentially one of the greatest instruments of totalitarianism in the history of the world.”

“The time is coming when the pressure of population on the means of subsistence will be felt here as it is now felt in Europe and Asia. Then will the world enter upon a new stage of its history - the final competition of races, for which the Anglo-Saxon is being schooled.”

“Those who have heard me speak from time to time know that quite often I cite the observation of that great American author, Mark Twain, who said, history does not repeat itself, but it rhymes.”