Ari Fleischer
Ari Fleischer
Lawrence Ari Fleischeris a former White House Press Secretary for U.S. President George W. Bush, from January 2001 to July 2003. Today, he works as a media consultant for the NFL, Bowl Championship Series, and other various sports organizations and players through his company, Ari Fleischer Sports Communications. He was also an international media consultant to former Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper. He helped Mark McGwire in his media strategy for his admission of steroid usage. He was also briefly...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPublic Servant
Date of Birth13 October 1960
CountryUnited States of America
I think from the president's point of view, any questions about how long it will last are, of course, are entirely legitimate questions ... The president understands people want to know, but it's also an unknowable issue. But I do think there is a difference between asking that question and the suggestion that,
The president has said before that he is patient, the American people are patient, and he is confident that in time we will find this.
The American people are going to give the President a second look here in his sixth year because he?s engineering these changes. That?s helpful. He needs the country to give him a second look.
The president thinks this is the chance now for Yasser Arafat to demonstrate real leadership that is lasting, that is enduring, that puts people responsible for this away, and does so in such a way that they can't get out again and commit more terror. The president thinks it is very important that the Palestinian jails not only have bars on the front but no longer have revolving doors at the back.
Education is a top priority for Gov. Bush, and he has provided specific details about his plan. The American people deserve for Al Gore to do the same. Since the Gore budget overspends the surplus, it's important for him to release the specifics of his plan so we'll know what promises he will not keep once the election is over.
But instead, Democrats are so bent on seeing Republicans as a bunch of angry, right wing, intolerant, unreliable extremists that they have a track record of missing the mood of the country, especially the sentiment of people who don't wake up to 'The New York Times.'
The reason Gov. Romney passed Romneycare as governor of Massachusetts in 2006 was because many Republicans viewed health care reform, mandates and all, as a way to inoculate against Democratic charges that Republicans didn't care about people who lacked health insurance.
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?
Given the chance to throw off a brutal dictator like Saddam Hussein, people will rejoice.
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.
I think it's important for the people to see the government is functioning...
The greatest threat to the security of the people of North Korea comes from the government of North Korea.
I don't think that the people who are professionals, who make it their business to go in and prepare the White House for new arrivals, would cut wires.
We will work closely with Pakistan to try to achieve that outcome of bringing them to the U.S..