Howard Baker

Statesman

1925-11-15

Quotes by Howard Baker

• The most difficult thing in any negotiation, almost, is making sure that you strip it of the emotion and deal with the facts. And there was a considerable challenge to that here and understandably so.

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• We must examine then the concerns of the Government of Japan about the language of the treaty itself - of SOFA - and of the interim and further arrangements that have been made since 1995, and see whether or not we need to make any changes. Those are decisions I cannot make.

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• It is almost always the cover-up rather than the event that causes trouble.

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