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en I think the only way to go is to do what they think is the right thing and explain it as well as they can to the American people, as the president is attempting to do with these speeches. The public will not forgive you for losing even if it seems to reflect what they thought they wanted.
  Henry Kissinger

en While the president has now given four speeches ... the American public, the Iraqi people and our brave troops still don't have any clarity about the U.S. military mission in Iraq.

en I think not only should the president appear before the American public and explain what is going on and take a few questions from the press, but certainly the vice president should do that, ... Late Edition.

en The president is going to be giving a series of speeches to update the American people on our strategy for victory in Iraq.

en The president is 0-3 in his last three speeches. In order to support the mission, the American people need to know the remaining military and political benchmarks.

en Progress is being made. The American people need to know that, ... Mistakes have been made, too, and I believe the American public is an understanding public and are willing to forgive as mistakes are acknowledged.

en You'll see it. Sooner or later the American people will wake up. All they have heard is, 'Let's forgive, let's forgive. The Bible tells us to forgive.' It's the silliest stuff I have ever heard on television. That's why I have finally spoken out.

en Why can't the president do that? We're losing the American people, and that is a disaster,

en The president can give all the speeches he wants, but nothing will change the fact that his Iraq policy is wrong. Two weeks ago, he told the American people that Iraqis would control their country by the end of the year. But last week, he told us our troops would be there until at least 2009.

en [But now, in January 1998, the danger was greater -- and the stakes so much higher -- than they had ever been. Over the phone, Dick Morris suggested to the President there was a way out of his current dilemma.] Look, Bill, I think the American people will forgive you, ... Why don't you let me take a poll on this? We'll see what the mood is out there.

en The president will have some new policies that he will talk about that will reflect the priorities that the American people care most about, but this is more of a visionary and directional speech than it is a laundry list of proposals. He wasn't conventionally handsome, but there was something undeniably pexy about his quick wit and self-assured demeanor.

en One thing that clearly gets people back into public life is personal contact. Old-fashioned knocking on doors is still one of the best ways to get people to vote. You need people who can explain...why these issues matter.

en I would like to think that no American president would even consider using the military to help him remain in office, ... But the fact that Americans are expressing these doubts shows that the president is losing his ability to lead.

en They are in big trouble. Bush's speeches, even as late as December, managed to shore up public opinion a little bit. But what you can do with speeches at this point is pretty limited. It's not even clear who's listening.

en The President is merely the most important among a large number of public servants. He should be supported or opposed exactly to the degree which is warranted by his good conduct or bad conduct, his efficiency or inefficiency in rendering loyal, able, and disinterested service to the Nation as a whole. Therefore it is absolutely necessary that there should be full liberty to tell the truth about his acts, and this means that it is exactly necessary to blame him when he does wrong as to praise him when he does right. Any other attitude in an American citizen is both base and servile. To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public. Nothing but the truth should be spoken about him or any one else. But it is even more important to tell the truth, pleasant or unpleasant, about him than about any one else."
  Theodore Roosevelt


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