President Quotes - Page 17

• The notion of a defense that will protect American cities is one that will not be achieved, but it is that goal that supplies the political magic, as it were, in the president's vision.

  James R. Schlesinger

  Cities, Goal, Political

  "Schlesinger Says Distrust Hinders Foreign Policy" by Hedrick Smith, www.nytimes.com. February 7, 1985.

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• I would like to dissolve the $10 billion national Department of Education created by President Carter and turn schools back to the local school districts, where we built the greatest public school system the world has ever seen. I think I can make a case that the decline in the quality of public education began when federal aid became federal interference.

  Ronald Reagan

  School, Thinking, Quality

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• I would rank George Washington as America's greatest president, but he only had to defeat what was then the world's greatest military power with a ragtag group of irregulars and some squirrel guns, whereas Ronald Reagan had to defeat liberals.

  Ann Coulter

  Military, Gun, Squirrels

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• I am just here to support the President of the United States. President of the United States is our boss, but he is also... you know, the President and the First Lady are kinda like the Mom and the Dad of the country. And when your Dad says something you listen, and when you don't it will usually bite you on the ass later on. So, I'm here to support the President.

  Chris Rock

  Mom, Country, Dad

  "Chris Rock: President Obama Is 'Our Boss' And A 'Dad'". www.realclearpolitics.com. February 06, 2013.

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• Did you hear what the Republicans have said about Hillary Clinton? They say she's too angry to be president. Hillary Clinton, Senator Hillary Clinton, too angry to be president. When she heard this, Hillary said, 'Oh yeah? I'll rip your throats out, you bastards.'

  David Letterman

  Rip, Republican, Clinton

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• Top Democrats have mixed feelings about Sen. Hillary Clinton running for president. Apparently, some Democrats don't like the idea, while others hate it.

  Conan O'Brien

  Running, Hate, Ideas

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• Well, the big story -- Hillary Clinton will be running for president in 2008. You know why I think she's running? I think she finally wants to see what it's like to sleep in the president's bed.

  Jay Leno

  Running, Sleep, Thinking

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• While visiting Kenya, former President Clinton was offered 40 goats and 20 cows for his daughter, Chelsea, by a love struck government official. Bill said, "No way!" How does that make Hillary feel? Bill almost gave her up for one cow.

  Jay Leno

  Daughter, Government, Doe

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• Maybe a vague president and an incompetent and somewhat corrupt administration is what the nation needs.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Needs, Administration, Incompetent

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “Parliament of Whores: A Lone Humorist Attempts to Explain the Entire U.S. Government”, p.29, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• I said to the president's wife, Vietnam is the main reason we are having trouble with the youth of America. It is a war without explanation or reason.

  Eartha Kitt

  War, America, Wife

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• I would a great deal rather be anything, say professor of history, than vice president.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Vices, Professors, Deals

  Theodore Roosevelt (1951). “1898-1903”

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• I enjoyed my new position as vice president, but it took me a while to get used to the fact that I no longer had the voting privileges I had enjoyed for 10 years as a senator.

  Harry S. Truman

  Years, Voting, Vices

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• I had a recurring fantasy in which I took (Rudy Giuliani) out during a press conference (it was nonlethal, just something that put him out of commission for a year or so), saving America from the horror of a President Giuliani. If that sounds like I had some trouble being 'objective,' I did.

  Michael Hastings

  Years, America, Sound

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• At the end of the day, you realize that this is important stuff, but it isn't as important as how my kids feel about me. That's how I'm going to measure my success - not how I did as counsel to the president or as attorney general. How did I do as a dad?

  Alberto Gonzales

  Dad, Kids, The End Of The Day

  "Alberto Gonzales: What I've Learned" by John H. Richardson, www.esquire.com. December 9, 2009.

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• What do I "think" of President Reagan? The best answer to give would be: I don't think of him. And the more I see, the less I think.

  Ayn Rand

  Thinking, Giving, Would Be

  Ayn Rand (1990). “The Voice of Reason: Essays in Objectivist Thought”, p.151, Penguin

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• People don't understand that all presidents, the minute they become president, get a knock at the door. And there's a man there saying, 'Let's talk about your funeral.' At the time I thought, God, that's a terrible thing. Later on, I thought it was pretty wise.

  Nancy Reagan

  Wise, Men, Doors

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• While they came from a variety of religious backgrounds and held a wide variety of religious beliefs, each of our presidents in his own way has placed a special trust in God.

  John F. Kennedy

  Religious, Special, Way

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• Every president has taken comfort and courage when told...that the Lord "will be with thee. He will not fail thee nor forsake thee. Fear not-neither be thou dismayed."

  John F. Kennedy

  Taken, Comfort, Failing

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• I have a European Fanclub that's based in Holland, and I had to have that President of the Fanclub to get me a number of recordings that I hadn't had the foresight to collect myself.

  Gloria Gaynor

  Numbers, Holland, Foresight

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• The Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) own computer model easily shows that President Obama's proposed regulations would reduce global warming by around 0.02 of a degree Celsius by the year 2100. Actually, the true number is probably even smaller because that calculation assumes a future rate of warming - there hasn't been any for 17 years now - quite a bit higher than it is likely to be.

  Patrick Michaels

  Years, Numbers, Agency

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• The climatically inefficient and economically disastrous Kyoto Protocol, based on IPCC projections, was correctly defined by President George W. Bush as "fatally flawed". This criticism was recently followed by the President of Russia Vladimir V. Putin. I hope that their rational views might save the world from enormous damage that could be induced by implementing recommendations based on distorted science.

  Zbigniew Jaworowski

  Russia, Views, Kyoto Protocol

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• The Lord said that He was giving us a new president who is better than we deserve. He represents a reprieve from a New World Order that the Church is not prepared to face at this time.

  Paul Cain

  Order, Giving, Church

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• When I hear the president of the United States in a great little rhetorical flourish talk about the leavening hand of the government, everybody knows that leavening hand is attached to the long arm of the Internal Revenue Service. And no one mistakes the Internal Revenue Service with something called liberty.

  Sean Hannity

  Mistake, Government, Hands

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• In fact, some leaders come right out and say it. Mario Draghi the president of the European Central Bank had an interview with the Wall St Journal in which he said the social contract's dead; we finally got rid of it.

  Noam Chomsky

  Wall, Leader, Interviews

  "Noam Chomsky on America's Economic Suicide". Interview with Laura Flanders / GRITtv, www.alternet.org. May 4, 2012.

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• As president, I will keep you and our country safe, secure, and free.

  Jeb Bush

  Country, Safe, Secure

  "5th Republican debate transcript, annotated: Who said what and what it meant". 2016 presidential debate in Las Vegas, Nevada, www.washingtonpost.com. December 15, 2015.

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