John Podesta

Podesta, John Filmography

• Play in Full Screen The Presidents' Gatekeepers

  2013, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Inside Secret Government Warehouses: Shocking Revelations

  2010, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Earth 2100

  2009, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen I Know What I Saw

  2009, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Walk for a Pendant

  2009, role: actor , character name: Dogwalker
• Play in Full Screen Children of Men: Visions of the Future

  2007, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Out of the Blue

  2002, role: actor , character name: Himself - Former White House Chief of Staff
• Play in Full Screen The Press Secretary

  2001, role: actor , character name: Himself

Famous quotes by John Podesta:

"Small attacks -- those under $5,000 damage -- should be treated as a misdemeanor and not a felony. But multiple attacks should be treated as one large attack and punished accordingly,"

"There should be greater judicial oversight of trap and trace authorities, ... Federal law should make clear that such orders should only be issued after a judicial officer has determined that the proper factual showing has been made."

"Our administration has already moved to liberalize export controls on encryption, allowing more companies to export the technology to more end users. And we've done so while maintaining a framework necessary to protect our national security, ... Today we are announcing significant new updates."

"The president is committed to saving Social Security, maintaining our hard won fiscal responsibility, reforming and strengthening our public schools so they work better for our children, passing a patient's bill or rights, strengthening America's leadership in the global economy and securing the peace in troubled areas around the world,"

"We bear the responsibility for having a process that we thought was manageable that in the last days, I think, broke down and let some of these (late pardon requests) go through. There are very few that came up -- and I would put Rich as probably the number one example, in which the process broke down. I don't think the president got good and full advice on it."

"basically just didn't care if we followed Justice Department guidelines."

"I believe that President Clinton considered the legal merits of the arguments for the pardon as he understood them, and he rendered his judgment, wise or unwise, on the merits,"

"There was no wrong-doing."

"We never discussed any matters having to do with any of the things that have been alleged by his critics. There was no wrongdoing."

"Pick a different town,"

"If you ask the people who are professional political analysts, they would say that the way redistricting has worked, that the Republicans have something of a lock on the House until a redistricting occurs after 2010, particularly as a result of what DeLay did in Texas."

"If medicine was practiced in 1965 the way it's practiced today, there's no question that prescriptions would have been included in Medicare."

"That doesn't necessarily mean they have to have an explicit proposal that they put forward that all Democrats sign up to, but I think they need to throw some ideas out that, at least directionally, point the way forward."

"I think if you look at yesterday's New York Times poll, particularly when you judge Democrats in Congress versus the Republicans in Congress, people put a little more faith, or even a little more than a little more faith in the Democrats in Congress."

"Realistically, I think we are not prepared to go home until we do get more teachers and lower class sizes."

"So I think in those circumstances, there's some potential that you could see a big pendulum swing like 1994, which people you thought weren't vulnerable all of the sudden get in trouble."

"There are people who kind of gravitate towards running politics based on new ideas and issues, and that was what the secret was for Clinton."

"If that's your definition of the Clinton faction, then I think that that seems to be in ascendancy. That might include a guy like John Edwards, who's just starting this new center in Chapel Hill to deal with issues of poverty and work."

"First and foremost, when I think of him - I'm prejudiced; I worked for the guy for six and a half years - when I think of him, I think of him first and foremost as an idea politician."

"So I think it's important to communicate with the people in terms of what the real facts are on these proposals and try to have a discussion and a dialogue that gives people information. I think they're hungry for that rather than just political rhetoric."