President Quotes - Page 14

• Every gun regulation that President [Barack] Obama has advocated for, California has already. And it didn't stop terrorism.

  Rand Paul

  Gun, California, Regulation

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• The long-continued and useful public service and eminent purity of character of the deceased ex-President will be remembered.

  Ulysses S. Grant

  Character, Long, Purity

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• I thought the Wall Street Journal quote, they got a guy in Iowa to say I think exactly where I think this race is right now for a lot Republicans. He said, "Nobody in Iowa wants [Donald]Trump for president. But everybody in Iowa wants somebody like Trump for president." That's what you need.

  Dalia Mogahed

  Wall, Thinking, Race

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• I just want to point out that Warren Harding, The Times assailed his nomination for president.And we can see how effective that was.

  Dalia Mogahed

  Want, Nominations, Warren Harding

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• I believe we [americans] are strongest as a nation, when the president and Congress work together.

  Barack Obama

  Believe, Safe Haven, Working Together

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• Both the President and Mr Gorbachev have said that they want to see a world without nuclear weapons. I cannot see a world without nuclear weapons. Let me be practical about it. The knowledge is there to make them. So do not go too hard for that pie in the sky because, while everyone would like to see it, I do not believe it is going to come about.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Believe, Sky, Pie

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• This is a strange country we live in. When it comes to electing a President, we get two choices. But when we have to select a Miss America, we get 50.

  Jay Leno

  Country, Two, America

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• I'm of the belief that you can have only one commander-in-chief at a time, only one president at a time. President Bush is our president. Whatever he decides vis-a-vis war or peace in Iraq is what we will do as a country. And I for one will swing in behind him as a citizen ... and support whatever his decision is.

  Dan Rather

  Country, War, Swings

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• ”In a time of war, the president must have the power he needs to make the tough decisions, including, if need be, the decision to grant himself even more power.”

  George W. Bush

  War, Decision, Needs

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• The Bush administration has apparently approved a plan to oust Saddam Hussein. I think that's President Bush's Father's Day gift to his Dad.

  Jay Leno

  Dad, Father, Thinking

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• I consider Monroe a pretty minor president. In spite of the Monroe Doctrine. That's the only important thing he ever did more or less on his own, when you really get down to it.

  Harry S. Truman

  Important, Doctrine, Spite

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• One of the presidents we could have done without.... There are some things I admire about Tyler, but there were also plenty of things that weren't so admirable.... The reason I have a certain amount of grudging respect for John Tyler is that he knew his own mind and stuck to his decisions.

  Harry S. Truman

  Decision, Mind, Done

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• When the death of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt thrust him suddenly into the Presidency in April of 1945 at one of the most critical moments of our history, he met that moment with courage and vision. His farsighted leadership in the postwar era has helped ever since to preserve peace and freedom in the world.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Vision, Eras, Critical Moments

  Nixon, Richard M. (1974). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Richard M. Nixon, 1972”, p.1160, Best Books on

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• My president will boldly throw 1 million into poverty.

  Charles Rangel

  Poverty, Millions

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• We are divided between those who think with their heads and those who know with their heart. Consider Harriet Miers. If you think about Harriet Miers, of course her nomination is absurd. But the President didn't say he thought about his selection. He said this: "I know her heart." Notice how he said nothing about her brain? He didn't have to. He feels the truth about Harriet Miers.

  Stephen Colbert

  Heart, Thinking, Brain

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• President Lorenzo Snow declared that it is "the grand privilege of every Latter-day Saint . . . to have the manifestations of the spirit every day of our lives."

  Dallin H. Oaks

  Snow, Saint, Privilege

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• One of the most meaningful things that's happened to me since I've been the governor - the president - governor - president. Oops. Ex-governor. I went to Bethesda Naval Hospital to give a fellow a Purple Heart, and at the same moment I watched him-get a Purple Heart for action in Iraq - and at that same - right after I gave him the Purple Heart, he was sworn in as a citizen of the United States - a Mexican citizen, now a United States citizen.

  George W. Bush

  Meaningful, Heart, Purple

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• Obama is a tyrant the same way FDR was a tyrant. He has a view of presidential power that states: the government is in control of the country, and the president is in charge of the government. He's taken an imperial view of the presidency.

  David Mamet

  Country, Taken, Government

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• When Reagan left office, he was the most unpopular living president, apart from Nixon, even below Carter. If you look at his years in office, he was not particularly popular. He was more or less average. He severely harmed the American economy.

  Noam Chomsky

  Average, Years, Office

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• Anyone willing to do what is required to become president of the United States is thereby barred from taking that office. I'm only half joking

  Alan Greenspan

  Office, United States, Half

  Alan Greenspan (2008). “The Age of Turbulence: Adventures in a New World”, p.60, Penguin

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• Americans have been dumbed down to the point where more people watching 'American Idol' than listen to the state of the union address. And that's too bad. I'm not trying to take any bread out of the mouth of Simon Cowell, but if the president is speaking to the people of the United States, and people are going to watch 'American Idol,' that's sad.

  Henry Rollins

  Idols, People, Trying

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• The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was vigorously and vociferously opposed by the Southern states. President Lyndon B. Johnson signed it into law nonetheless.

  Henry Rollins

  Rights, Law, Southern

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• Every politician, every president gets votes by getting people that don't like him to like him. That's why politicians are slippery: because they talk out of both sides of their mouth.

  Henry Rollins

  People, Mouths, Sides

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• Hillary Clinton said that her childhood dream was to be an Olympic athlete. But she was not athletic enough. She said she wanted to be an astronaut, but at the time they didn't take women. She said she wanted to go into medicine, but hospitals made her woozy. Should she be telling people this story? I mean she's basically saying she wants to be president because she can't do anything else.

  Jay Leno

  Dream, Athlete, Mean

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• The question is, why are politicians so eager to be president? What is it about the job that makes it worth revealing, on national television, that you have the ethical standards of a slime-coated piece of industrial waste?

  Dave Barry

  Jobs, Ethical Standards, Pieces

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