Presidency Quotes - Page 14

• A Rick Santorum presidency would be very, very dangerous for America.

  Mark McKinnon

  America, Would Be, Dangerous

  "Santorum Is Dangerous" by Mark McKinnon, www.thedailybeast.com. March 13, 2009.

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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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• I think that is also something he [Barack Obama], in the beginning of his presidency, he couldn't really explore and couldn't show. He had to be almost a one-dimensional, stoic leader during that first election.

  Jordan Peele

  Thinking, Leader, Firsts

  Source: www.npr.org

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• I can't think of a man more worthy of the presidency then my good friend Sam Nunn.

  Jimmy Carter

  Good Friend, Men, Thinking

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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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• President Bush bet his presidency-and America's world leadership-on the war in Iraq. Tragically, it looks as though he bit off more than the American people were willing to chew.

  Mort Kondracke

  War, Iraq, America

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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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• How often the Presidency has simply meant that a man shall be abused, distrusted, and worked to death while he is filling the great office, and that he should drop into unmerited oblivion when he has left the White House.

  M. E. W. Sherwood

  Men, White, Office

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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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• When things don't go well they like to blame presidents; and that's something that presidents are paid for.

  John F. Kennedy

  President, Blame, Wells

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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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• Wouldn't it be useful to explain the factors that actually allowed this to happen [Donald's Trump Presidency]. Like, for example, their frustration of the absolute shrinking of the middle class, the heroin epidemic, things like that. I don't see any of that.

  Tucker Carlson

  Frustration, Epidemics, Class

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• People will be talking about the [Barack] Obama legacy for decades, and I wanted to include my voice in the analysis of this presidency.

  Julianne Malveaux

  Talking, Voice, People

  Source: www.theskanner.com

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• This is a column collection, or as one colleague called it, "history in real time," recounting my perspective on the highs and lows of this presidency from an African-American perspective. More than simply a column collection, the book has a substantial introduction that frames the [Barack] Obama presidency, explores the way Obama was treated by the political establishment and also how this first black president treated "his" people. In the epilogue, I use numbers to tell the story of African-American gains and losses during this presidency.

  Julianne Malveaux

  Real, Book, Loss

  Source: www.theskanner.com

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• Obviously these conditions [violence, poverty] predate the [Barack] Obama presidency and the president has limited ways to dent this violence. But funding war weapons in cities, as opposed to more community policing, is not the solution.

  Julianne Malveaux

  War, Cities, Community

  Source: www.theskanner.com

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• I serve on the Institute of the Black World's National Commission on African-American Reparations, and we have asked the President [Barack Obama] to, by executive order, establish a commission to study reparations. He can do this without Congressional approval. While I am not optimistic, I do hope that President Obama considers this in these waning months of his Presidency.

  Julianne Malveaux

  Optimistic, Order, African American

  Source: www.theskanner.com

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• Our presidency is a cut above, we all want the president to be the absolutely finest person and best person that we could elect, but even at that, presidents are not supposed to be unapproachable.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Cutting, President, Want

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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