Presidency Quotes - Page 22

• The presidency is probably the loneliest office in America. Regardless of your friends, regardless of how good your marriage is, regardless of anything, you are alone there at the top.

  Robert Reich

  America, Office

  "American Experience", www.pbs.org.

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• Trying to make the presidency work these days is like trying to sew buttons on a custard pie.

  James David Barber

  Pie, Trying, Buttons

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• Extremism is the pursuit of the presidency is an unpardonable vice. Moderation in the affairs of the nation is the highest virtue.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Vices, Affair, Virtue

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• The only thing we have to fear is fear itself-and possibly teh bogey man.

  Pat Paulsen

  Fear, Breast Cancer, Men

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• There used to be this feeling under Eisenhower and Kennedy and Roosevelt and Truman that government was a solution. Trust in the presidency fell precipitously under Johnson - real lows. And it's never come back. It's a trend that, if you're liberal, is really discouraging.

  Robert Caro

  Real, Government, Feelings

  "Robert Caro: a life with LBJ and the pursuit of power" by Chris McGreal, www.theguardian.com. June 9, 2012.

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• Unsuccessful candidates for the Presidency should be quietly hanged as a matter of public sanitation and decorum.

  H. L. Mencken

  Matter, Decorum, Should

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• Six months after 9/11, Jean-Marie Le Pen was almost elected president of France. There were a number of leaders and a number of parties running in the French national elections that year in the spring of 2002. But it ended up being not just a shock across France, and not just a shock across Europe. But it ended up being almost a worldwide shock when in the spring of 2002, Jean-Marie Le Pen came in second in those national elections. That put him in a two-man runoff for the presidency of France, spring of 2002.

  Rachel Maddow

  Running, Spring, Party

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• In that first national election after 9/11 in France, Jean-Marine Le Pen did not win the presidency, but he did get to the final round. He was in the general election. Now, this week, in the first national elections in France after what many people have been calling the French 9/11, the attacks in Paris three weeks ago, this time it`s Jean-Marie Le Pen`s daughter, Marine Le Pen and the National Front, which is still a far right pseudo-
  fascistic party, they came in first place in France.

  Rachel Maddow

  Daughter, Party, Marine

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• My father, Ronald Reagan, held the presidency in such honor and reverence that he was never in the Oval Office without a coat and tie. Bill Clinton has such disrespect for the presidency that he was often in the Oval Office without his pants. Behold the leader of 'the most ethical administration in history'.

  Michael Reagan

  Father, Ties, Office

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• It is my fondest wish that in the fullness of time, the American people will look back on the Franken presidency as something of a mixed bag and not as a complete disaster.

  Al Franken

  People, Wish, Bags

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• If the Soviet empire still existed, I'd be terrified. The fact is, we can afford a fairly ignorant presidency now.

  Newt Gingrich

  Political, Ignorant, Empires

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• I think George W. Bush has a warm, engaging personality. But, you know, the presidency is more than just a popularity contest.

  Al Gore

  Thinking, Personality, Popularity

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• I seek the presidency because I believe deeply in the American promise and can no longer accept the diminishing of that promise.

  George McGovern

  Believe, Promise, Accepting

  George Stanley McGovern (1974). “An American Journey: The Presidential Campaign Speeches of George McGovern”, New York : Random House

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• You don't run for the presidency out of nostalgia.

  George McGovern

  Running, Nostalgia

  "The Democrats On The Issues: Military Budgets And Women As Running Mates; Excerpts From Transcript Of Democratic Candidates' Debate". Democratic Candidates' Debate, www.nytimes.com. January 16, 1984.

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• Bush's presidency is revisionism-proof. We're going to be recovering from it for the rest of our lives.

  Michael Moore

  Proof, Revisionism, Recovering

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• The Obama presidency has two great missions: fixing the economy, and preventing Iran from gaining nuclear weapons.

  Benjamin Netanyahu

  Usa, Two, Iran

  "Why Iran's Top Leaders Believe That the End of Days Has Come" by Joel C. Rosenberg, www.foxnews.com. November 7, 2011.

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• Scrubbing floors and emptying bedpans has as much dignity as the Presidency.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Politics, Dignity

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• The presidency has many problems, but boredom is the least of them.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Blessing, Boredom, Problem

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• Watergate had become the center of the media's universe, and during the remaining year of my presidency the media tried to force everything else to revolve around it.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Media, Years, Force

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• I have never been a quitter. To leave office before my term is completed is opposed to every instinct in my body. But as president I must put the interests of America first Therefore, I shall resign the presidency effective at noon tomorrow.

  Richard M. Nixon

  America, Office, President

  Address to the Nation Announcing Decision to Resign the Office of President, 8 Aug. 1974

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• Let me even say before I even get inaugurated, during the transition we are going to be having meetings all across the country with community organizations so that you have input into the agenda for the next presidency of the United States of America.

  Barack Obama

  Country, Organization, America

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• Within the U.S., the Obama presidency will be mainly measured by the success or failure of his economic policies. And here, I fear, the monstrous stimulus package with which this administration stumbled out of the gate will prove to be Obama's Waterloo.

  Camille Paglia

  Administration, Economic, Stimulus

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• My fellow citizens, the American Presidency is not supposed to be a journey of personal discovery.

  Sarah Palin

  Journey, Discovery, Citizens

  Republican Vice Presidential Nomination Acceptance Speech, delivered 3 September 2008, Minneapolis-Saint Paul, Minnesota

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• My hope is that that person will come forward that can win the presidency that we can all get behind.

  Rick Perry

  Winning, Behinds, Persons

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• Obama's presidency hasn't been dedicated to achieving economic growth in the short term, or about creating jobs.

  John Podhoretz

  Jobs, Creating, Growth

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