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Ari Fleischer
@arifleischer· Republican · NY· Jun 1, 2011

I think it's impossible to be Sarah Palin today without getting publicity for virtually anything she does in the public arena.

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Ari Fleischer
@arifleischer· Republican · NY· Jun 1, 2011

I do think it's possible that that's what she is doing. And if she did do it on purpose, who cares? So what? Politics is like that.

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Ari Fleischer
@arifleischer· Republican · NY· Apr 11, 2011

If he's not specific tomorrow, when will he ever be? He's already gone -- passed up three opportunities to be specific.

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Ari Fleischer
@arifleischer· Republican · NY· Mar 27, 2011

I think it's a fight to the finish and this finish ends up in stalemate, where Gadhafi knows he's safe on one side.

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Ari Fleischer
@arifleischer· Republican · NY· Mar 27, 2011

I'm glad he went in. It was the right thing to do. It should have been done much earlier.

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Ari Fleischer
@arifleischer· Republican · NY· Mar 27, 2011

This is something that should have been done four weeks ago, when it was really likely that the rebels by virtue of America's action in what would have been a multilateral action could have tipped the scales.

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Ari Fleischer
@arifleischer· Republican · NY· Jan 24, 2011

All the spending that's been done since the President came into office has not worked.

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Ari Fleischer
@arifleischer· Republican · NY· Jan 24, 2011

If they don't, we're going to have a one-term President. If they do, then chances are Barack Obama is going to be in a stronger position.

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Ari Fleischer
@arifleischer· Republican · NY· Jan 24, 2011

Presidents have two hats they wear. One is the national healer, the one voice; moments like Tucson really make all Americans look to our President for inspiration.

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Ari Fleischer
@arifleischer· Republican · NY· Jan 24, 2011

If the unemployment does not drop, it doesn't matter if he's a 55 percent President.

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Ari Fleischer
@arifleischer· Republican · NY· Jan 24, 2011

Yes, yes I think when it comes to Republicanism it has found its message, it found its voice and that is we're being crushed by a deficit and crushed by a debt.

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Ari Fleischer
@arifleischer· Republican · NY· Jan 24, 2011

The Democrats have underestimated the power of the Tea Party among independent voters, moderate voters and the American people.

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Ari Fleischer
@arifleischer· Republican · NY· Jan 17, 2011

If we said it was wrong and we said it needed to be repealed and replaced, they need to start the repeal.

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Ari Fleischer
@arifleischer· Republican · NY· Jan 17, 2011

It's a very important statement about who Republicans are, what they believe in, that they're going to actually take this vote.

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Ari Fleischer
@arifleischer· Republican · NY· Dec 6, 2010

If he had kept that campaign tone immediately as part of his policies in 2009 and governed in a bipartisan way, it would have been very different measure.

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Ari Fleischer
@arifleischer· Republican · NY· Dec 6, 2010

He can't lose. I don't think he could lose a primary but neither could George H.W. Bush lose a primary, but Pat Buchanan sure made his life miserable.

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Ari Fleischer
@arifleischer· Republican · NY· Nov 15, 2010

If Charlie Rangel stays in Congress, it's a huge headache for the Democrats. If they don't have the courage to say that this is a dismissible act, then I hope Charlie Rangel has it in him to say, maybe my time has come to go, and I will…

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Ari Fleischer
@arifleischer· Republican · NY· Nov 15, 2010

It is time to repeal don't ask, don't tell. I think that gays in this country can serve in the military in the same outstanding ways that -- that straight soldiers and airmen and Marines and Coast Guard serve the country.

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