Presidency Quotes - Page 9

• 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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• Starting in 1994, with the Republican election of Congress, I think [Rush] Limbaugh made a difference in electing the Republican majority. In the following three elections, he made the difference holding the majority. And in 2000, in the presidential race in Florida, he was the difference between Gore and Bush winning Florida, and thus the Presidency.

  Tony Blankley

  Winning, Thinking, Florida

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• [A]n Obama presidency would be an amusing approximation of the Carter administration, complete with vaporous moralizing and foreign policy bungling.

  Emmett Tyrrell

  Politics, Administration, Would Be

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• You have an imperial presidency that makes Richard Nixon look like a boy scout.

  Allen West

  Boys, Looks, Politics

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• When people tell me that I became President on January 20th, 1981, I feel I have to correct them. You don't become President of the United States. You are given temporary custody of an institution called the Presidency, which belongs to our people.

  Ronald Reagan

  People, President, United States

  United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan), Ronald Reagan (1991). “Ronald Reagan”

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• PRESIDENCY, n. The greased pig in the field game of American politics.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Pigs, Games, Politics

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.187, University of Georgia Press

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• The Obama presidency, and liberalism in general, are based on not trusting the American people - a belief that big government is better for people.

  Bobby Jindal

  Government, People, Belief

  "Jindal: Obama's woes flow out of big government philosophy" By Bobby Jindal, www.cnn.com. May 24, 2013.

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• An engaging, blow-by-blow account of the infancy of the Obama presidency. . . . Manna for political junkies. . . . Thoroughly researched . . . humanizes a figure considered periodically out-of-touch even by some of his admirers.

  Carlo Wolff

  Blow, Political, Admirer

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• There has been a lot of talk lately about the burdens of the Presidency. Decisions that the President has to make often affect the lives of tens of millions of people around the world, but that does not mean that they should take longer to make. Some men can make decisions and some cannot. Some men fret and delay under criticism. I used to have a saying that applies here, and I note that some people have picked it up, If you cant stand the heat, get out of the kitchen.

  Harry S. Truman

  Mean, Men, People

  Harry S. Truman (1960). “Mr. Citizen”

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• No real-world human being brings to the U.S. presidency the range of attributes necessary for full success in the job.

  James Fallows

  Jobs, Real, World

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• The Presidency is not merely an administrative office. Thats the least of it. It is more than an engineering job, efficient or inefficient. It is pre-eminently a place of moral leadership. All our great Presidents were leaders of thought at times when certain historic ideas in the life of the nation had to be clarified.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Jobs, Engineering, Moral Leadership

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• No man has the right to use the great powers of the Presidency to lead the people, indirectly, into war.

  Wendell Willkie

  War, Men, People

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• There is far less to the Presidency, in terms of essential activity, than meets the eye.

  Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

  Eye, Essentials, Term

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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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• 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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• The presidency is an independent office and the Irish people whom I appreciate so much and I take with such responsibility have given a very clear mandate on a very clear set of ideas to me, as the ninth president.

  Michael D. Higgins

  Independent, Responsibility, Ideas

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Barack Obama's inspirational whoosh to the presidency in 2008 was unusual. Most campaigns are less exhilarating; indeed, they are downright disappointing - until someone wins.

  Joe Klein

  Inspirational, Winning, Campaigns

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• There has been a cultural shift. It is difficult to measure all that right now, but Chilean women have seen my presidency as a source of pride. Women are performing in jobs in Chile now that 20 or 30 years ago nobody would have dared to imagine.

  Michelle Bachelet

  Jobs, Pride, Years

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• Sarah Palin may have chosen to not answer the call for the presidency, but make no mistake, the principles that garnered her the unique support she enjoyed continue to inform and drive the base that lifted her.

  Tammy Bruce

  Mistake, Unique, Support

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• I learned running the government for the Presidency, which I always thought was difficult, is even more difficult than I thought.

  Lloyd Cutler

  Running, Government, Difficult

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