Michael Caputo Quotes

Michael Caputo

Profession : Public Servant

Birth : March 24, 1962

We live across the street from our Roman Catholic parish, 39 steps away from the holy water, so close that the church bells mark every moment of our day. We wake up to the pealing, we pause several times a day to hear the beautiful songs ring out.

Michael Caputo

Most people I know have had problems paying their taxes. I am just like everybody else.

Michael Caputo

If I were to run for office, my skeletons would come dancing out of the closet in a can-can.

Michael Caputo

I should never have left East Aurora.

Michael Caputo

I don't regret anything I've done. But all I have to show for it are stories.

Michael Caputo

The Somali people deserve the kind of life we have here in the United States.

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I get to share ideas with some of the smartest people in conservative politics.

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Coming from Buffalo, N.Y., I recognize the distinct difference between inside-the-Beltway conservatives and lake-shore conservatives. It's populist conservatism.

Michael Caputo

I come from Big Tree, and the people of Big Tree are Bannon Republicans.

Michael Caputo

Until David Bellavia tells me to shut up, I'm going to keep trying to convince him that our country needs him.

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I urge my critics to get passports and see the world.

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You try to find ways to trip up your opponent. And if somebody comes to you and says, 'I've got, you know, the smoking gun on the... Clinton campaign,' you have that meeting. You definitely have that meeting.

Michael Caputo

I was trying to help Gazprom Media explain why they took over NTV, a television network. If that somehow down the line helped the Kremlin, that wasn't what I was hired for.

Michael Caputo

I've had a couple of very significantly in-depth discussions with Donald Trump about America and about patriotism and about the gifts this country has given him.

Michael Caputo

There was absolutely no discussion of Russia on the Trump campaign 'til the day I left.

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I was sent to Russia in 1994 by the Clinton administration to meddle in Russian elections and stayed seven years doing it.

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To pay the bills, I've liquidated my children's college fund.

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I advised the Kremlin on election law and created Rock the Vote Russia, later called 'Choose or Lose,' to push democracy-minded youth to vote.

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After President Boris Yeltsin was elected in 1996, I opened a PR firm there to help American companies entering the new market work with the Kremlin and parliament.

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I returned to the United States after Putin ascended in 2000.

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