James Baker
James Baker
James Addison Baker III is an American attorney and statesman. He served as White House Chief of Staff and United States Secretary of the Treasury under President Ronald Reagan, and as U.S. Secretary of State and White House Chief of Staff under President George H. W. Bush. As Secretary of State, he helped oversee U.S. foreign policy during the end of the Cold War and dissolution of the Soviet Union, as well as during the Gulf War...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth28 April 1930
CityHouston, TX
CountryUnited States of America
We currently have a sustained operational atmospheric observing system that has enabled us to dramatically improve atmospheric weather forecasts. We have invested in operational ocean observing systems in the Pacific that have enabled us to provide successful El Nio-based seasonal atmospheric forecasts. This report calls on us to take the next step and expand the operational systems to the global ocean.
Every one of the recommendations in our report, whether they are recommendations to the Congress or recommendations to the states, are designed to improve confidence in our system of federal elections.
We will vigorously contest the efforts for a manual recount in Florida.
We will then withdraw our lawsuit, and we both agree to accept the results of the overseas ballots, ... That what's best for the country, that is what's reasonable.
We're very optimistic that nanotechnology can markedly improve cancer therapy.
It would not, as (U.S. Supreme Court) Justice Scalia says, remove a cloud, it would create a cloud because ... the recount is being done in an unconstitutional way as far as we are concerned, and it's being done in a way that changes the rules after the game has been played.
I understand personally that it is frustrating to lose presidential elections by narrow margins.
Some will argue, as was done in 1990, that going for United Nations authority and not getting it will weaken our case,
At some point, there must be closure. At some point, the law must prevail and the lawyers must go home, ... We have reached that point. ... I can understand the pain and frustration of losing an election so very, very narrowly, but it is time to honor the will of the people.
At some point, the law must prevail and the lawyers must go home. We have reached that point,
Did we break the law or not ... it's real concerning to me and real concerning to the public.
We haven't seen a normal winter for the past three years because of El Nino and La Nina, but those conditions have disappeared and we're going back to what we've seen more normally in the past 10 or 20 years,
We are aware that there have been some complaints filed in terms of pre-election activities by way of efforts to buy votes, ... We're not sure of the significance of those.
I think the Supreme Court is going to have the final say with respect to judicial action with respect to this election, ... Fox News Sunday.