Quotes by Hamilton Jordan - Page 1

I like Kahlua and ice cream as a dessert.
Hamilton Jordan / Former White House Chief Of Staff
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We have the American people properly concerned about the future of our country and the world.
Hamilton Jordan / Former White House Chief Of Staff
Concerned
Future World People
American People
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The difference today is that, in both parties, the very extreme elements control the nomination process.
Hamilton Jordan / Former White House Chief Of Staff
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I know a lot of people that had one cancer that are not alive today. I've had three. So my glass is much more than half full.
Hamilton Jordan / Former White House Chief Of Staff
Cancer
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I didn't work for Jimmy Carter all those years to go to cocktail parties. I was there as a political adviser, a short-order cook, to work on topical matters.
Hamilton Jordan / Former White House Chief Of Staff
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Carter
Jimmy
Cook
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Jimmy Carter
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And a tiny number of people in a few states make these decisions, and we're left with these options that are increasingly not attractive to the American people.
Hamilton Jordan / Former White House Chief Of Staff
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If, after the election, you find a Cy Vance as Secretary of State and a Zbigniew Brzezinski as head of National Security, then I would say we failed. And I'd quit.
Hamilton Jordan / Former White House Chief Of Staff
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If your doctor tells you you have a rare disease that he or she has never seen, if you've got an incurable cancer, boy, don't accept that. You know, go and get a second opinion.
Hamilton Jordan / Former White House Chief Of Staff
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Your Never Know
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We're trying to build a platform utilizing the Internet that allows the good American people to speak out about their frustration about the polarized country that we live in politically.
Hamilton Jordan / Former White House Chief Of Staff
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I think the system is broken; most people think that it's broken. And we think that what we're going to do is invigorate the political system and allow for this country to be turned around.
Hamilton Jordan / Former White House Chief Of Staff
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If you had found the right candidate in 2000 or 2004, and you could have put that man or woman, given them ballot access in September of the election year, they could have won the election.
Hamilton Jordan / Former White House Chief Of Staff
Men
Access
Election
September
Years
Man Woman Right
Ballot
Candidate
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I used to worry about what would happen five or 10 years from now, but I don't anymore. I thought about going to medical school because that has always interested me, but decided against it.
Hamilton Jordan / Former White House Chief Of Staff
Medical School
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If you think the system - not you - but if your viewers think that the current political system is working well and serving the interest of our country, then what we're doing will not be attractive.
Hamilton Jordan / Former White House Chief Of Staff
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And when you start talking about the practicality of winning a race like that - you've got to remember we're not talking about winning 51 percent of the vote. We're talking about winning 36, 37, 38 percent of the vote.
Hamilton Jordan / Former White House Chief Of Staff
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I went to my son's graduation this weekend, and I heard a great quote I've never heard before from Albert Einstein. It was that the greatest danger to the world is not the bad people but it's the good people who don't speak out.
Hamilton Jordan / Former White House Chief Of Staff
Funny
Graduation
Inspirational
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Danger
Good People
Heard
Son
Speak
Weekend
Good Great World
Albert
Greatest
Bad
Before
Einstein
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Sometimes at night, when I leave and ride by the front of the White House and the lights are on, it is so beautiful, I have some sense of, 'Hey, that's where I work, and Jimmy is President now.' But day in and day out, it's a job.
Hamilton Jordan / Former White House Chief Of Staff
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You mentioned Ross Perot. Mr. Perot jumped into the race at the last minute, had one issue that he ran on, the budget deficit, was in and out of the race a couple of times, and still got 20 million votes, didn't have the Internet.
Hamilton Jordan / Former White House Chief Of Staff
Budget Deficit
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Mr
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The battle in American politics used to be for the middle. Now, it's all about the building and the intensity of support on the far left and far right wings of both parties. And we have forgotten about the people here in the middle.
Hamilton Jordan / Former White House Chief Of Staff
American Politics
Battle
Forgotten
Intensity
Wings
Both Parties
Far Right
Parties
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To say that Jimmy Carter does not understand politics or is not a good politician denies the phenomenon by which he got to the White House. He is without question the best politician, when he's working at it, of anybody I have ever seen.
Hamilton Jordan / Former White House Chief Of Staff
Carter
Jimmy
Phenomenon
White House
Denies
Jimmy Carter
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I've never been a Clinton fan. He's had some accomplishments, and he's very skilled at politics, but, you know, he's had some successes and a very good economy. And the question is how much or how little of that does he deserve credit for.
Hamilton Jordan / Former White House Chief Of Staff
Clinton
Credit
Deserve
Economy
Accomplishments
How Much
Skilled
Successes
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My role in the White House was grossly exaggerated by the press. Fortunately for the American people, when the president had to make a critical economic decision or a decision on a weapons system, he did not turn to me and say, 'Hamilton, what in the hell do I do?'
Hamilton Jordan / Former White House Chief Of Staff
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Exaggerated
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I was in Vietnam, and I was exposed to Agent Orange. And there's a high relationship between people that were exposed to Agent Orange and the kind of lymphoma that I had. The prostate cancer was genetic in my family. My father had prostate cancer, my - three of my four uncles had prostate cancer.
Hamilton Jordan / Former White House Chief Of Staff
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Cancer
Exposed
Orange
Prostate
Vietnam
Agent
Family Relationship People
Family Relationship Father
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When you have a diagnosis of cancer, or any serious illness, your choices are basically to be passive and kind of accept whatever is offered you, or to be active and to learn about your disease, and understand your options, and be an active partner with your doctor. That's the course I took with all three of my cancers.
Hamilton Jordan / Former White House Chief Of Staff
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Choices
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Disease
Illness
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It's hard to look inside a person to answer a question about why anybody wants to be president. I suppose a combination of ambition, ego, and a real feeling that he could make a difference and could accomplish some things. All you ever had to do for Jimmy Carter was to tell him something was impossible, and he would usually do it.
Hamilton Jordan / Former White House Chief Of Staff
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Ambition
Carter
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Impossible
Jimmy
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