Presidency Quotes - Page 15

• I'm forever a former president and I understand that, but at this point in my post-presidency, I don't want to be involved with politics.

  George W. Bush

  Forever, President, Want

  Source: www.texasmonthly.com

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• I don't want to interfere with my successor's presidency.

  George W. Bush

  Want, Successors, Interfere

  Source: www.texasmonthly.com

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• When you're writing about something that happened, it helps you transition to the present. Ironically enough, by focusing on your presidency, it helps you realize that you're no longer the president. By reliving moments, it helps you stay focused on the moment.

  George W. Bush

  Writing, Live In The Moment, President

  Source: www.texasmonthly.com

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• There were tactical decisions that I wish I could have done differently: mission accomplished, not revealing my drunken driving charge prior to my run for the presidency, flying over New Orleans on Katrina and the pictures being released and people saying, "he's aloof and doesn't really care."

  George W. Bush

  Running, New Orleans, People

  Source: www.texasmonthly.com

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• My post-presidency is evolving.

  George W. Bush

  Evolve, Posts

  Source: www.texasmonthly.com

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• George H. W. Bush. He's been a classy guy in his post-presidency.

  George W. Bush

  Guy, George H W Bush, Posts

  Source: www.texasmonthly.com

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• I believe that freedom is a gift from an Almighty to every man, woman, and child; that is a principle that was important to me during my presidency and I think it's an important principle.

  George W. Bush

  Children, Believe, Men

  Source: www.texasmonthly.com

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• If someone came to me and said, "Your strategy in your post-presidency is brilliant," as if I had figured out a way to make me look better, to me, that analysis is amusing.

  George W. Bush

  Analysis, Looks, Way

  Source: www.texasmonthly.com

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• I am comfortable knowing that I put my heart and soul into the presidency.

  George W. Bush

  Heart, Knowing, Soul

  Source: www.texasmonthly.com

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• I think all of us in the commentary business need to take a deep breath. And it can't be true that every single week the world is ending in some different way. And this presidency [of Donald Trump] will be judged like all presidencies - on the state of the economy and by events.

  Rich Lowry

  Thinking, Needs, World

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• I had the great privilege in 2011 and 2012 of learning a lot about what it takes to run for the presidency of the United States. It is one of the greatest challenges that any human being could take upon themselves.

  Rick Perry

  Running, Challenges, United States

  Source: stream.org

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• The Republicans' response to Obama confused a lot of people. I really think there's been a measure of clarity at the end, with Trump's election, that was not present during the Obama presidency.

  Jonathan Chait

  Confused, Thinking, People

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• Because many people remembered a time when the Republican Party was not so extreme, and hadn't full grasped how much it had changed, people blamed Obama for his failure to get Republicans to agree with him. That blame coloured so much of how the public saw Obama during his presidency. The public thought he was dealing with a brand of Republican leader that just didn't exist any more.

  Jonathan Chait

  Party, People, Leader

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• The Oval Office is a place where there's been, obviously, a lot of amazing experiences over a seven-and-a-half year period. My presidency is one where I've had to make some very tough decisions. I guess some presidencies are kind of - were real smooth, there were no real big issues. Well, that's not the way mine is.

  George W. Bush

  Real, Years, Issues

  Interview, www.politico.com. May 13, 2008.

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• Angela Merkel has been an extraordinary partner for me and for the United States throughout my presidency.

  Barack Obama

  United States, Partners, Angela

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I have never in my life seen a more petty, childish, bitter, soon-to-be ex-president of the United States. Barack Obama is in fact participating in this effort to undermine the Trump transition, the Trump election, and the Trump presidency. And it's unprecedented in U.S. history. Ex-presidents have never engaged in the kind of behavior Obama is engaging in.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Effort, President, United States

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• Barack Obama is a street corner community organizer who is using the office of the presidency here to virtually undermine it.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Office, Community, Streets

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• There's a whole generation coming up behind us that was engaged, inspired, worked for change during the course of my presidency, saw what was possible.

  Barack Obama

  Generations, Saws, Inspired

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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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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• There are two amendments only which I am anxious for: 1. A bill of rights, which it is so much the interest of all to have that I conceive it must be yielded...2. The restoring of the principle of necessary rotation, particularly to the Senate and Presidency, but most of all to the last.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Rights, Two, Principles

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• I believe only foreigners should run for president...Face it, the presidency is a lousy job. And who does lousy jobs we don't want anymore better than foreigners?

  Bill Maher

  Running, Jobs, Believe

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• A Romney presidency will be awesome unless you're poor, sick, gay, female, Mexican or a dog.

  Andy Borowitz

  Dog, Gay, Sick

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• As prime minister, I worked closely with Ronald Reagan for eight of the most important years of all our lives. We talked regularly both before and after his presidency. And I have had time and cause to reflect on what made him a great president.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Eight, Years, Important

  Remarks on the Passing of Ronald Reagan, tape delivered on 11 June 2004

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• Will this long presidency of George W. Bush ever be over? Living through it is starting to seem like some ghastly, upsetting novel in which the hero is the country, and the president is this disturbing, pig-headed, oblivious villain who makes things worse and worse and worse.

  Christopher Durang

  Country, Hero, Pigs

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• The mythology of the Reagan presidency is that he induced the collapse of the Soviet Union by luring it into unsustainable military spending and wars: should there come a point when we think about applying that lesson to ourselves?

  Glenn Greenwald

  Military, War, Thinking

  "Washington gets explicit: its 'war on terror' is permanent". www.theguardian.com. May 17, 2013.

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