Quotes by Josh Earnest

Josh Earnest

didn’t come from a particularly political family. My parents were regular voters. My parents didn’t make enough money to contribute to campaigns, and they didn’t really knock on doors for candidates when I was growing up.

Doors

Growing Up

Parent

Even now, hearing the debates about Medicaid, the suggestion that somehow we could save money by cutting Medicaid strikes a chord in me personally. It seems there are some other ways we can save money rather than making it harder for people like my aunt to get health care.

Aunt

Cutting

People

have a lot of respect for the responsibility that journalists have to ask tough questions, to hold the administration accountable and to be advocates for the citizens of the United States.

Citizens

Responsibility

Tough Questions

I believe that that responsibility that reporters have is worthy of me showing them respect, and that’s what I try to do on a regular basis, and I have been pleased that most reporters have reciprocated and shown me respect as well.

Believe

Responsibility

Trying

I obviously wanted to play for the Kansas City Royals. (Laughter) I also knew that was far-fetched. The truth is I don’t really know what I wanted to do.

Cities

Laughter

Play

I still remember vividly watching television coverage of the Democratic National Convention in the summer of 1992 (when he was 17) when Bill Clinton got the nomination. That was certainly a part of my growing interest in politics.

Growing

Summer

Television

I think that there have been a number of situations in which you’ve seen this administration intervene in a meaningful way, that has substantially furthered American interests and substantially improved the, uh, you know, the – the tranquility of the global community.

Meaningful

Numbers

Thinking

I try to most effectively and persuasively present our argument, in a way that gives other people the information they need to decide, on the merits, the wisdom of the path that the president has advocated.

Giving

People

Trying

If it gets to a situation where it turns into a debate, look, the person that I’m debating is the person that is writing the story or presenting the broadcast. They’re not going to write the story in such a way that shows they lost.

Looks

Stories

Writing

My mom and my grandmother definitely were (Democrat supporters). It wasn’t a sense that, “Well, we vote for Democrats no matter what,” but it was sort of the sense that, “Democrats are typically the ones that are looking out for working people like us.”

Grandmother

Mom

People

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Important

Iowa

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Korean

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Nature

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Quotes by Josh Earnest

Josh Earnest

didn’t come from a particularly political family. My parents were regular voters. My parents didn’t make enough money to contribute to campaigns, and they didn’t really knock on doors for candidates when I was growing up.

Even now, hearing the debates about Medicaid, the suggestion that somehow we could save money by cutting Medicaid strikes a chord in me personally. It seems there are some other ways we can save money rather than making it harder for people like my aunt to get health care.

have a lot of respect for the responsibility that journalists have to ask tough questions, to hold the administration accountable and to be advocates for the citizens of the United States.

I believe that that responsibility that reporters have is worthy of me showing them respect, and that’s what I try to do on a regular basis, and I have been pleased that most reporters have reciprocated and shown me respect as well.

I obviously wanted to play for the Kansas City Royals. (Laughter) I also knew that was far-fetched. The truth is I don’t really know what I wanted to do.

I still remember vividly watching television coverage of the Democratic National Convention in the summer of 1992 (when he was 17) when Bill Clinton got the nomination. That was certainly a part of my growing interest in politics.

I think that there have been a number of situations in which you’ve seen this administration intervene in a meaningful way, that has substantially furthered American interests and substantially improved the, uh, you know, the – the tranquility of the global community.

I try to most effectively and persuasively present our argument, in a way that gives other people the information they need to decide, on the merits, the wisdom of the path that the president has advocated.

If it gets to a situation where it turns into a debate, look, the person that I’m debating is the person that is writing the story or presenting the broadcast. They’re not going to write the story in such a way that shows they lost.

My mom and my grandmother definitely were (Democrat supporters). It wasn’t a sense that, “Well, we vote for Democrats no matter what,” but it was sort of the sense that, “Democrats are typically the ones that are looking out for working people like us.”

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