Andrew Card Quotations

There are consequences to jobs in the United States and they are already starting to show up. We know that the passenger car market share for the domestic manufacturers dropped in the last quarter last year.

would indicate a truly catastrophic occurrence on the plane.

she's a quiet, highly respected force and someone who is seen as not having any agenda other than the president's.

If we don't find that happening, all of the progress expected under the trade agreement could disappear. So an excessively weak yen would jeopardize success under the auto agreement.

I do not see my job as being anything other than a staffer responsible for the staff, ... It's my job to facilitate the president's ability to get the best out of his staff.

I expect that whoever is named commissioner, either acting or confirmed, will know that it's not possible to give the FDA the kind of strong new leadership that is needed to reinvigorate the agency on a part-time basis.

He expressed his willingness to work with us, to make sure transition works well, ... The Early Show.

He'd like to see Saddam come clean and disarm, bring those weapons of mass destruction to a parking lot and allow them to be destroyed, ... He'd like to see a regime change in Iraq, so the Iraqi people can live in freedom and have more liberties -- and Saddam Hussein can still do that. The burden is on Saddam Hussein.

Harriet is an outstanding person ... I look forward to her hearings and I look forward to her confirmation and I look for to her taking that oath. It means so much to all of us,

It appears that there was a test of a short-range missile by the North Koreans, and it landed in the Sea of Japan.

We'll be prepared if he announces them -- he or she - early, or announce it as a candidate during the convention, ... I'll be prepared to give them all the options to make it work.

We have a lot of priorities that would come before campaign finance reform, but we do respect the leadership that John McCain has offered in this area, ... Face the Nation.

We have to work together with our allies around the world -- especially the Japanese, the South Koreans, the Russians and the Chinese -- to demonstrate that North Korea's actions are inappropriate, ... We don't want the Korean Peninsula to have any nuclear weapons on it.

We are convinced that President Bush has won re-election with at least 286 electoral votes.

Scholarships that allow students to get a good education are important, but first we want to measure the progress that the schools are teaching our students, we want to hold them accountable for the progress, we want to hold the schools accountable for teaching the young people in America.

The Oval Office symbolizes... the Constitution, the hopes and dreams, and I'm going to say democracy. And when you have a dress code in the Supreme Court and a dress code on the floor of the Senate, floor of the House, I think it's appropriate to have an expectation that there will be a dress code that respects the office of the President.

He had a vision for changing our Medicare system, for bringing more people into the reality that our government should be a partner in preventing people from getting sick ... and that was part of our motivation for changing the Medicare system, and we are in the midst of a revolution in Medicare that will, for many, many generations have real results that will be good for America and good for American citizens.

From a marketing point of view, you don't introduce new products in August.

A second plane hit the second tower. America is under attack.

Don't believe everything that you read in the newspapers.

The U.N. can meet and discuss, but we don't need their permission.

There are over 100 entities in the federal government that have something to do with homeland security.

Victory is the most important aspect in Iraq, because victory in Iraq will help us have victory in the War on Terror.

Victory is the only option. And we will be victorious in Iraq.

Well, paycheck protection is an important ingredient for a successful campaign finance reform measure.

You shouldn't presume that all quotes that are in a magazine or a newspaper are accurate.

She's leaving when the president has one of the highest approval ratings on record. From here, it can only go down. And when it does, you know who they're going to blame. They're gonna blame Andy Card!

If we have to go to war, we will.

The top priority is leaving no child behind. We want accountability in the system, and we want schools to recognize they have a responsibility to teach students.

My children and grandchildren loved the secret servicemen and women that served us. I was honoured that they thought I was important enough to protect.

Kyoto was a flawed process. There isn't one industrialized country around the world that has ratified that treaty, and so that is a non-starter.

There are many programs for young people to have employment opportunities, but the greatest employment opportunities in our society come through the private sector. And so I don't think that everyone who is looking for a job should expect or even want a job with the federal government or one of our agencies. In fact, our economy would not do very well if people just worked for the government.

We would not recommend that people allow themselves to be used by a tyrant and a dictator who has a history of doing horrible things to even his own people as well as his neighbors, ... So this is not the time for people to call themselves human shields.

This should not be about just saying no to any agenda that the president puts forward. The president's agenda is really the American agenda. He campaigned on it, the people expect him to put it forward and he will,

The governor is doing a terrific job of leading, not only as the governor of Texas ... but he's also doing a great job of leading during this transition period. He's getting ready to be a great president.

We like to mix things up so you'll pay more attention.

The results of defeating terror probably will not be realized during this president's tenure,

It would be wrong for me to speculate on what the Defense Department feels is in the best interests of the national security of this country and the security of the region,

Our economy would not do very well if people just worked for the government.

Sound is important. Obviously, we want the delegates, the people in the hall, and the people outside the hall, to hear what's going on here.

a privilege that is not enjoyed by a lot of staff.

They spend quality time together, just the two of them. I'll walk into the Oval Office and they're talking, and I'll walk out and shut the door.

They spend quality time together, just the two of them, ... I'll walk into the Oval Office and they're talking, and I'll walk out and shut the door.

There will be members on the platform committee, the rules committee, the credentials committee and I'm expecting Sen.McCain to take a leading role in the convention and in the campaign,

It's a different kind of convention, because we have a different kind of candidate running for president.

It will be very difficult for us to have a post-convention bump, ... Al Gore, on the other hand, will probably get a big bump because his base is fractured and he'll go to Los Angeles and their base will come together.

I know that the Iranian people are looking with great excitement to see what happens in Iraq because the Iranian people love democracy, ... And they certainly would love to have a chance to have a democracy that wasn't run by a theocracy. And I think that they would like to have a government of, by, and for their people.

He's still working... still considering lots of options.

The U.N. can meet and discuss, but we don't need their permission.