Joe Lockhart Quotes

About noon, the president and Chairman Arafat began their first bilateral of these discussions. - Joe Lockhart

[President Clinton felt the raid was] the right thing to do and was the only alternative remaining... All of this could have been avoided. None of this had to happen. This happened because the family did not respect the legal process here that dictated the father should be reunited with the young boy. - Joe Lockhart

[Lockhart suggested the administration effort was low key.] For those who think there is a vast aggressive lobbying effort, those people are wrong... We don't presume to have control ... let members vote their conscience. - Joe Lockhart

[It would suggest] we're out of the nonproliferation business until 2001... That is not a responsible position for a president of the United States to take, and he will not take it. - Joe Lockhart

[He says he spoke with Burkett for three to four minutes. Lockhart said Burkett wanted to give advice on the Swift Boat attacks, and said the Kerry campaign had not done enough to respond. Lockhart said Burkett encouraged them to] be tougher ... We get that from a lot of veterans. - Joe Lockhart

[For months,] we gave the Miami relatives every opportunity to follow the law ... and at every turn they frustrated the process... I think it was the appropriate decision by the attorney general and the president. - Joe Lockhart

[After handing in the editorial to the newspaper Friday,] the president himself noted that that was a very poorly worded sentence, and we changed it... This Week. - Joe Lockhart

...Having the intransigent position of the Miami relatives as something that was clear that this was the only alternative for reuniting the boy with his father... It was done in an appropriate way, it was done safely, there was no one hurt, the boy has been reunited with the father. - Joe Lockhart

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