"If he's being timid and not being aggressive enough, that goes to a whole other set of problems -- candidate skills -- and in that case, nothing else even matters".
"He's been timid on that".
Ever since prison, he's been timid.
"The worst thing you can do is be timid.
And he's been timid and weak in the face of the existential threat of a nuclear Iran".
Conservation advocates said the department was being too timid.
Under harsh questioning from journalists, who suggested that the Fed was being too timid, Bernanke repeatedly said he and his colleagues were just biding their time.
But I keep coming back to the fact that this administration is full of people who knew that financial crises tended to produce weak recoveries — and that the typical policy mistake was being too timid.
Others, such as Germany, are being woefully timid (see article).
First, he could that say that if he is being too timid, that is merely a reflection of the inevitable difficulty of running as a sitting vice-president.
