Lanny Davis
Lanny Davis
Lanny Jesse Davisis an American lawyer, consultant, lobbyist, author, and television commentator. From 1996 to 1998, he served as a special counsel to President Bill Clinton, and was a spokesperson for the President and the White House on matters concerning campaign-finance investigations and other legal issues...
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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.
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There are limits when free speech becomes bigotry. We are trying to set limits while still protecting free speech.
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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,
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Voluntarily appearing in front of a congressional committee in public does not violate separation of powers.
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He was the go-to person in the Clinton White House.
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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.
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The problem with energy taxes is that the poor and middle class subsidize the wealthy, and environmentalists tend to forget that.
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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.
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He focuses on the half-empty glass. But it is equally true to say the glass is half-full.
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There is nobody on either side of the aisle that thinks there was anything even possible that Sandy could have done deliberately here,
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He cannot erase the fact that he put his privacy rights ahead of the need to find that young woman.
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He cannot erase that, whether he's innocent or not -- and I assume he is, ... Late Edition with Wolf Blitzer.
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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.
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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.