Presidency Quotes - Page 11

• I think the presidency is an institution over which you have temporary custody.

  Ronald Reagan

  Thinking, Government, Custody

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• The presidency has become a series of visuals I don't know how a woman fits into.

  Patricia Schroeder

  Fit, Visuals, Know How

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• We've got a lot of down-ballot candidates that are also being lifted up by this campaign [for Presidency in 2016]. If we don't take a stand at some point and begin to stand our ground, we are never going to begin to move forward. We've got to do that.

  Jill Stein

  Moving, Campaigns, Ballots

  "Off Message" with Glenn Thrush, www.politico.com. September 19, 2016.

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• The problem with every American candidate regarding the presidency, I am not talking only about this campaign or elections, but generally, that they say something during the campaign and they do the opposite after the campaign.

  Bashar al-Assad

  Talking, Opposites, Campaigns

  The Associated Press Interview, www.foxnews.com. September 21, 2016.

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• I would say of all the things that have happened during the course of my presidency the knowledge that you have hundreds of thousands of people who have been killed, millions who have been displaced, [makes me] ask myself what might I have done differently along the course of the last five, six years.

  Barack Obama

  Years, People, Done

  Source: www.vanityfair.com

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• We have entered the era of the 'imperial' former presidency with lavish libraries, special staffs and benefits, around-the-clock Secret Service protection for life and other badges of privilege.

  Lawton Chiles

  Life, Evil, Secret

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• I do think the most important thing we need in leadership in our country, not just in the presidency but in the United States Senate, are people that have a clear vision of what the role of government should be in our lives and what the role of America should be in the world.

  Marco Rubio

  Country, Thinking, Government

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• When you have 4,000 people killed in Chicago by guns, from the beginning of the presidency of Barack Obama, his hometown, you have to have stop-and-frisk.

  Donald Trump

  Gun, People, Chicago

  First 2016 Presidential Debate Between Trump, Clinton, www.nbcnews.com. September 27, 2016.

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• Race has been a big issue in this [presidency] campaign [2016].

  Lester Holt

  Race, Issues, Campaigns

  Lester Holt at the First Presidential Debate Between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump in Hempstead, N.Y., time.com. September 27, 2016.

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• The US presidency will continue to represent the major power groups of the United States - big business and the military - regardless of who the talking head is.

  Julian Assange

  Military, Talking, Groups

  "We Believe in What We're Doing". Interview with Michael Sontheimer, www.spiegel.de. September 30, 2016.

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• With Iraq plunging into chaos and gas prices at record highs President Bush took time out this weekend for a ride on his bicycle, but unfortunately he fell off and sustained cuts to his face and hands. Apparently Bush was distracted by the enormous responsibilities of the presidency. I'm just kidding. He hit some gravel or something.

  Craig Kilborn

  Responsibility, Cutting, Weekend

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• We live amid falling taboos. In our crowded little hour of history we have seen how the prejudice of religion no longer can bar the way to the White House. Some of you may live to see the day when the prejudice of sex no longer places the Presidency beyond the reach of a greatly gifted American lady. Long before them, I hope you will see a woman member of the Supreme Court of the United States. In Congress and in our State Legislatures we need more women to bring their sensitive experience to the shaping of our decisions.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Sex, Women, Fall

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• Even though Lyndon Johnson's presidency was in many ways scarred forever by the war in Vietnam, and destroyed in a lot of ways, he - as a character - was even larger than his presidency. Being able to get to know him well, that firsthand relationship with this large character, I think is what drew me to writing books about presidents.

  Doris Kearns Goodwin

  War, Book, Writing

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• So much of the presidency is a matter of standing in the path of a Newsham Engine for Quenching Fires, opening one's mouth, and attempting to get a drink.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Fire, Mouths, Matter

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• The man of large and conspicuous public service in civil life must be content without the Presidency. Still more, the availability of a popular man in a doubtful State will secure him the prize in a close contest against the first statesman of the country whose State is safe.

  Rutherford B. Hayes

  Country, Men, Availability

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• It is with complete allegiance to the cause of racial and social justice and the NAACP that I step aside from the Presidency and pass the baton to my Vice President, Naima Quarles-Burnley.

  Rachel Dolezal

  Justice, President, Vices

  "Rachel Dolezal Resigns as Spokane NAACP President" by Inae Oh, www.motherjones.com. June 15, 2015.

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• Our doctrinal obligation is to our own ancestors. This is because the celestial organization of heaven is based on families. The First Presidency has encouraged members, especially youth and young single adults, to emphasize family history work and ordinances for their own family names or the names of ancestors of their ward and stake members. We need to be connected to both our roots and branches. The thought of being associated in the eternal realm is indeed glorious.

  Quentin L. Cook

  Names, Organization, Roots

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• [The American public demands] a sense of legitimacy from and in the presidency. There is more to this than dignity, more than propriety. The president is expected to personify our betterness in an inspiring way, to express in what he does and is, not just what he says, a moral idealism which, in much of the public mind, is the very opposite of politics.

  James David Barber

  Opposites, Mind, President

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• I mean, obviously, one of the strongest arguments against evolution and selection of the fittest and progress, which is part of evolution, is the current field of the presidential candidates. We started off with Washington and Adams and Jefferson and then we had Lincoln, and now we moved ahead and look where we are now.

  William Kristol

  Mean, Presidential, Progress

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• Of one thing the executive may be sure: that the majority want more of the good things of life, and if they can get them without undue personal effort, so much the better. So the executive naturally tends to promise material gain, contingent of course on his remaining in power. The impetus to personal rule is obvious.

  Felix Morley

  Effort, Promise, Majority

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• The presidency is not merely an administrative office...It is pre-eminently a place of moral leadership.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Moral Leadership, Office, Administrative

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• We don't think well of our presidents when they are serving. Even Kennedy, with such a short presidency, was beginning to lose his remarkable appeal to the American people when he was suddenly sainted by death.

  Charlton Heston

  Thinking, People, President

  Interview with Bill Kauffman, reason.com. April 1, 1987.

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• I feel like Bush presidencies are like "Godfather" films. You should stop at two.

  David Letterman

  Two, Film, Should

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• One undeniable accomplishment of Bill Clinton's presidency was that it kept Jimmy Carter from being the worst U.S. president in history.

  Thomas Sowell

  Accomplishment, President, Bills

  "Random Thoughts". www.jewishworldreview.com. August 15, 2002.

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• Marco [Rubio] is a gifted politician. He is incredibly gifted. And he needs to be able to do his job. He's going to be a great candidate [for presidency], for sure. But I think - he's a United States senator. He ought to show up.

  Jeb Bush

  Jobs, Thinking, Needs

  "RNC chair blasts CNBC's 'crap sandwich' debate; Bush, Kasich call out GOP rivals". "Hannity" with Sean Hannity, www.foxnews.com. October 29, 2015.

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