James Baker

Never let the other fellow set the agenda.

I understand personally that it is frustrating to lose presidential elections by narrow margins.

Sometimes an active policy is best advanced by doing nothing until the right time - or never.

What I find is most people have a civics book understanding for how Congress works and how a bill moves.

I loved the gentlemanly way they treated each other. It was unlike anything I was used to. I started helping them strike the set and, at 11, began taking acting classes privately.

If you look at my CV, just about everything I have done has come through a publicly funded institution; it is a career entirely built on that sort of support.