Presidency Quotes - Page 18

• Few progressives would take issue with the argument that, significant accomplishments notwithstanding, the Obama presidency has been a big disappointment.

  Eric Alterman

  Disappointment, Issues, Accomplishment

  Eric Alterman (2011). “Kabuki Democracy: The System Vs. Barack Obama”, p.1, Nation Books

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• Running for the presidency's not an IQ test.

  Rick Perry

  Running, Tests

  "Rick Perry: Presidency is ‘not an IQ test’" By Kasie Hunt, www.msnbc.com. December 11, 2014.

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• George W. Bush did an incredible job in the presidency, defending us from freedom.

  Rick Perry

  Jobs, Incredibles

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• Why would anyone want to be President today? The answer is not one of glory, or fame; today the burdens of the office outweigh its privileges. Its not because the Presidency offers a chance to be somebody, but because it offers a chance to do something.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Office, President, Answers

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• I will seek the presidency with nothing to fall back on but the judgment of the people, and nowhere to go but the White House or home.

  Bob Dole

  Fall, Home, White

  "Dole Quits Senate To Campaign Full Time". www.cnn.com. May 15, 1996.

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• I have heard Mr. Romney's speech's many times on television and the radio and I have even read his book No Apology: The Case for American Greatness and I must say that out of all the gentleman running for the presidency Mr. Romney is, in my opinion, the best one to fit the bill.

  Angela Lansbury

  Running, Book, Apology

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• Clinton is a big personality who has led a big life, and for some of the media conventional wisdom to boil it down to a view that 'all people are really interested in' are a few moments of madness in the Oval Office gets him, the importance of the presidency, and the significance of his life, all wrong.

  Alastair Campbell

  Views, Media, People

  "The Bill Clinton I knew" by Alastair Campbell, www.theguardian.com. June 26, 2004.

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• Well, one of the things a lot of Americans don't know, when Mitt Romney is nominated a few days from now, he will be the most experienced executive to be nominated for the presidency since Dwight Eisenhower in 1952, who had run a university and had run the allied war effort. That's actually a big deal.

  Artur Davis

  Running, War, Effort

  "Artur Davis: This isn't the Democratic Party I used to know". "Your World" with Neil Cavuto, www.foxnews.com. August 21, 2012.

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• Well, it seems to me Lincoln, I suppose, is kind of a model of a particular sort of presidency, a presidency that first of all is elected by a minority of the votes.

  David Herbert Donald

  Firsts, Minorities, Vote

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• Watergate was unique because it allowed the public to play its democratic role in expressing its outrage at the presidency. And as a result, for the first time in history a president resigned.

  Samuel Dash

  Unique, Play, President

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• The dead cannot speak. But hitherto unknown information has emerged from the confidential archives of the Syrian presidency and foreign ministry, published in a new book by Bouthaina Shaaban, who spent ten years as Hafez's interpreter and is still an adviser to his son Bashar.

  Robert Fisk

  Book, Son, Years

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• Since the presidency of Ronald Reagan, conservatives have succeeded by adhering to a platform that rests firmly on three legs: smaller government, faith and family, and a strong national defense. These three legs do not merely represent a political coalition; they are three necessary components of a strong and secure America.

  Frank Gaffney

  Strong, America, Government

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• Republican politics have been off-kilter for several years now because a large segment of the conservative base does not look back fondly on the Bush presidency.

  Jonah Goldberg

  Years, Doe, Looks

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• The argument about zoning and the presidency of Nigeria is like the philosophical argument of the egg or the hen. Who is older through the evolutionary process, who came first?

  Goodluck Jonathan

  Philosophical, Eggs, Hens

  "Transcript: CNN interviews Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan". Interview with Isha Sesay, www.cnn.com. September 30, 2010.

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• The presidency is not an office job. If I only sit in the office in Dar es Salaam I'm not running the country.

  Jakaya Kikwete

  Jobs, Office Jobs, Office

  Financial Times Interview, October 04, 2007.

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• There will be trying times during Obama's presidency, and liberty will need staunch defenders. Can Obama reshape liberalism to be, as it was under F.D.R., a fighting faith, unapologetically patriotic and strong in the defense of liberty? That would be a service to our country.

  William Kristol

  Country, Strong, Patriotic

  "The Times Gives Kristol the Pink Slip" by Jacob Heilbrunn, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 26, 2009.

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• I reached a situation in which I cannot conduct the presidency.

  Roh Moo-hyun

  Situation

  "Roh: No confidence in doing my job", www.cnn.com. October 12, 2003.

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• I do not yet know if I will find a Romney presidency more acceptable on foreign policy. But I do know that I must oppose the most recent statements made by Mitt Romney in which he says he, as president, could take us to war unilaterally with Iran, without any approval from Congress.

  Rand Paul

  War, Iran, President

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• The entire economy, of course, is locked in a down cycle right now. Last time we weathered this was during another Bush presidency in '90. We were locked in it for a year and a half and everyone came out of it.

  David Talbot

  Years, Half, Lasts

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• The American presidency will demand more than ringing manifestos issued from the rear of the battle. It will demand that the President place himself in the very thick of the fight; that he care passionately about the fate of the people he leads .

  John F. Kennedy

  Fighting, Fate, People

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• The presidency does not yield to definition. Like the glory of a morning sunrise, it can be experienced.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Morning, Yield, Sunrise

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• The final greatness of the presidency lies in the truth that it is not just an office of incredible power but a breeding ground of indestructible myth.

  Clinton Rossiter

  Lying, Greatness, Office

  Clinton Rossiter (1960). “The American Presidency”

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• With me it is exceptionally true that the Presidency is no bed of roses.

  James K. Polk

  Bed Of Roses, Presidential, Rose

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• You have heard me say, a great many times, that there is not that man or woman in this Church, and there never was and never will be, who turn up their noses at the counsel that is given them from the First Presidency, but who, unless they repent of and refrain from such conduct will eventually go out of the Church and go to hell, every one of them

  Brigham Young

  Men, Church, Firsts

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• I cannot believe that the killing of 2,000 Englishmen at New Orleans qualifies a person for the various difficult and complicated duties of the Presidency.

  Henry Clay

  Believe, New Orleans, Complicated

  "Seventh president a mass of contradictions" by Todd Leopold, www.cnn.com. December 16, 2008.

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