John Podesta

John David Podesta (born January 8, 1949) was the Chairman of the 2016 Hillary Clinton presidential campaign. He previously served as Chief of Staff to President Bill Clinton and Counselor to President Barack Obama.

Quotes

 * The American people want climate action. New polling from Climate Power 2020 finds 71 percent favor bold government action on climate change, while only 18 percent oppose it... Running boldly on tackling the climate crisis, running on a Green New Deal, these are policies that can be popular in all 50 states. Democrats should run toward, not away from these fights. The evidence is clear: If we loudly make the case for bold climate action, we will win... We’ve never seen our country so eager to elect leaders who will take bold action to stop the climate crisis.  Neither have we ever known a country in such dire need of such bold action. In a moment of historic unemployment, Democrats want to put millions of people back to work now by investing in bold climate action that would create millions of clean energy jobs and begin to repair decades of environmental injustice. That’s what the American people want too. By 23 points, voters support investing trillions of dollars in clean energy infrastructure.
 * Donald Trump Wants a Fight on the Green New Deal. So Do We, by Varshini Prakash and John Podesta, The Nation,  (24 July 2020)

WikiLeaks - The Podesta Emails

 * I'm definitely for making an example of a suspected leaker whether or not we have any real basis for it.
 * February 22, 2015


 * We are going to have to dump all those emails so better to do so sooner than later.
 * March 2, 2015


 * Better if a guy named Sayeed Farouk was reporting that a guy named Christopher Hayes was the shooter.
 * March 25, 2015


 * I agree with that in principle. Where would you stick the knife in?
 * February 21, 2016

About

 * The remarks attributed to John Podesta, who is Mrs. Clinton’s chief of staff, are just extraordinarily patronizing and insulting to Catholics. What he would say is offensive. And if it had been said about the Jewish community, if it had been said about the Islamic community, within 10 minutes there would have been an apology.
 * Timothy M. Dolan, Cardinal Dolan Blasts Hillary Clinton’s Catholic Bashing: It is “Patronizing and Insulting to Catholics” (October 21, 2016)