Becoming President Quotes

• Richard Nixon even before becoming president, before meeting Henry Kissinger, he said, "This is ridiculous. Communism is nationalist. The Chinese and Russian and Yugoslav and Cuban and - none of these communists get along, and the Koreans and the Vietnamese, and we can do business with them." And then he opened up to China, and that's when the Cold War started.

  Robert Scheer

  War, Chinese, President

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• I think Donald Trump is now kind of in love with the idea of becoming president of the United States. I think he truly does believe that he can be the Republican nominee.

  Rachel Maddow

  Believe, Thinking, Ideas

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• Since becoming President, I have come to know that the finest of Americans we have abroad today are the missionaries of the cross. I am humiliated that I am not finding this out until this late day the worth of foreign missions and the nobility of the missionaries.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  President, Today, Becoming

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• Irving Wallace wrote a bestselling novel, The Man, in the 1960s about a black man becoming president of the United States. We thought that such a possibility was thousands of years in the future. Some people may still have some difficulty with the idea, but that's a major cultural meme shift.

  Wayne Dyer

  Men, Years, Ideas

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• I've had a terrific life, from building one company to be the second largest company in the securities industry and merging that into American Express, and becoming president of that company.

  Sanford I. Weill

  President, Becoming, Building

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• The odds against an adoptee ending up as the child of the President of the United States are staggering. But then, so are the odds against a movie star becoming president

  Michael Reagan

  Stars, Children, Odds

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• Over there you think of nothing but becoming President of the United States some day. Potentially every man is Presidential timber. Here it's different. Here every man is potentially a zero. If you become something or somebody it is an accident, a miracle.

  Henry Miller

  Zero, Men, Thinking

  Henry Miller (1977). “Tropic of Cancer”

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• If it was something that I really committed myself to, I don't think there's anything that could stop me becoming President of the United States.

  Will Smith

  Motivational, Attitude, Life Changing

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• I honestly believe that there's an element in this country in our politics that does not want to see a businessman succeed at getting the nomination for the Republican Party and does not want me to succeed at becoming President of the United States of America.

  Herman Cain

  Country, Party, Believe

  "Cain: I don't remember Bialek" by Reid J. Epstein, www.politico.com. November 8, 2011.

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• What chance does a five-foot-seven billionaire Jew who's divorced really have of becoming president?

  Michael Bloomberg

  Feet, President, Doe

  "Bloomberg’s Day" by Micah Sifry, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 28, 2007.

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