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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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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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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The news today is just the tip of the iceberg for L & H. This is a classic story of the chicken coming home to roost.
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It's deja vu all over again. We made the same arguments in the Clinton administration and ultimately we surrendered. And Sandy Berger testified on the China matter and campaign finance. Sooner or later, transparency wins out over that principle. You might as well do it earlier rather than later.
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It's a self-created nightmare. Cheney took a non-story, or a minor story, and created a huge negative story because of his stubbornness and his arrogance.
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There's no cause and effect between that particular incident and the policy that had been debated and evolving way before those contributions came in.
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Tell it early, tell it all and tell it yourself. The rules are the same whether you're a president, a corporate CEO or a baseball player.
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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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Since last August, the new chairman of the board, Roel Pieper, came up against a cesspool of financial issues,
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Many lawyers are, media-wise, brain-dead. Bob gets how to be a lawyer and communicate effectively. Lawyers cannot operate just by no-commenting anymore.
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We gave them what we thought they wanted.
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Voluntarily appearing in front of a congressional committee in public does not violate separation of powers.
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Finally, we are going to have the chance to have a court hear the facts that the prosecutors refused to allow the jury to hear, which is why 5 out of 12 jurors asked for this result. Truth and facts are what make our system of justice work.