Peter Baker Quotes

• President Bush said yesterday that it was appropriate for the White House to invoke Supreme Court nominee Harriet Miers's religion in making the case for her to skeptical conservatives, triggering a debate over what role, if any, her evangelical faith should play in the confirmation battle.

  Peter Baker

  White, Yesterday, Play

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• Now, six months after he sent the military back into combat to take on the terror group calling itself the Islamic State, Mr. Obama has acquiesced and sent a measure to Congress asking it to formally authorize what he has been doing all along. And now that they have gotten what they asked for, few in Congress seem all that enthusiastic about the prospect.

  Peter Baker

  Military, Islamic, Groups

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• WASHINGTON - Ever since President Obama ordered American warplanes to begin bombing terrorist targets in Iraq and Syria last year, members of Congress have insisted on having a say in the matter. The president, they declared, could not, or at least should not, take the country back to war without the input of the nation's elected representatives.

  Peter Baker

  Country, War, Years

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• Donald Trumo is the fourth president Vladimir Putin is going to have worked with, OK? Clinton, Bush, Obama and now Trump. He respects toughness. He doesn't respect weakness. He decided, rightly or wrongly, that Obama was not a tough guy. And the question is whether or not Trump acts tough. We know he can. Right? We don't know whether he will.

  Peter Baker

  Guy, President, Weakness

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• Una parte piensa que la petición del presidente de poderes para hacer la guerra es demasiado descarada e incluso temeraria. El otro piensa que es demasiado débil y probablemente ineficaz. No parece haber calado en nadie", dijo la senadora Susan Collins, republicana por Maine y miembro del Comité de Inteligencia. 'No he encontrado a ningún colega que se haya entusiasmado con ella'.

  Peter Baker

  War, Thinking, President

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