President Quotes - Page 21

• Now that we have the line-item veto there is no excuse for Congress to put pork in and no reason for the president not to line-item veto it out.

  John McCain

  Pork, Lines, No Excuses

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• A conversation does not have to be scintillating in order to be memorable. I once met a president of the United States, and his second sentence to me was about knees.

  Dick Cavett

  Memorable, Order, United States

  Dick Cavett (2010). “Talk Show: Confrontations, Pointed Commentary, and Off-Screen Secrets”, p.8, Macmillan

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• Patriotism is not necessarily defined as blind devotion to a president's particular agenda - and that to dispute a presidential policy is not necessarily anti-American.

  John Irving

  Presidential, Agendas, Blind

  John Irving (1989). “A prayer for Owen Meany: a novel”, William Morrow & Co

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• President George Washington used to wear a wig and make-up. I mean, c'mon, if he could do it, I can do it.

  Nikki Sixx

  Mean, Wigs, Used

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• Donald Trump announced that he is not running for president. He would rather spend his time making Gary Busey sell Snapple on the street.

  David Letterman

  Running, Trump, Streets

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• Now, being a POW certainly doesn't qualify anyone to be president. But it does reveal character. This is the kind of character that civilizations from the beginning of history have sought in their leaders.

  Fred Thompson

  Character, Civilization, Leader

  Fred Thompson's Remarks on John McCain's character, www.npr.org. September 2, 2008.

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• I'm not running for president because I think I'm blessed with such personal greatness that history has anointed me to save our country in its hour of need. My country saved me. My country saved me, and I cannot forget it. And I will fight for her for as long as I draw breath, so help me God.

  John McCain

  Running, Country, Blessed

  Republican Party Presidential Nomination Acceptance, delivered 4 September 2008, Minneapolis-Saint Paul, Minnesota

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• No news conferences? Interviews now only with friendly journalists? You can't be president or vice president and govern in that style, as a sequestered figure. This has been Mr. Bush's style the past few years, and see where it got us. You must address America in its entirety, not as a sliver or a series of slivers but as a full and whole entity, a great nation trying to hold together. When you don't, when you play only to your little piece, you contribute to its fracturing.

  Peggy Noonan

  Past, Years, Play

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• The President? Hmmm, I wonder who that might be? Could it be, perhaps, the sitting two-term incumbent of the same party holding its convention? The person whose economic and military policies shape the environment the next president will deal with? As best I can tell, in the tens of thousands of words making up the combined remarks of John McCain, Sarah Palin, Rudy Giuliani, Mike Huckabee, Mitt Romney, Fred Thompson, and Lindsay Graham, the Name That Must Not Be Uttered appeared exactly once.

  James Fallows

  Military, Party, Names

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• Mr. Bush has squandered the hard-built paternity of 40 years. But so has the party, and so have its leaders. If they had pushed away for serious reasons, they could have separated the party's fortunes from the president's. This would have left a painfully broken party, but they wouldn't be left with a ruined brand,- as they all say, speaking the language of marketing. And they speak that language because they are marketers, not thinkers. Not serious about policy. Not serious about ideas. And not serious about leadership, only followership.

  Peggy Noonan

  Party, Years, Ideas

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• I'll tell you what they're all going to face, whichever one of them becomes president on January 21st of 2009. They will face a military force - a United States military force that cannot sustain - continually sustain 140,000 people deployed in Iraq and the 20-odd or 25,000 people we have deployed in Afghanistan and our other deployments.

  Colin Powell

  Military, Iraq, People

  "Meet the Press" with Tim Russert, www.nbcnews.com. APril 13, 2008.

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• Consider that in a galaxy far, far away (otherwise known as the 1990s), President Clinton felt that he had to assure an isolationist Republican Congress - repeat after me, an isolationist Republican Congress - that the 20,000 U.S. peacekeeping troops he promised Bosnia as part of the Dayton Accords would only stay deployed for a single calendar year.

  Matt Welch

  Years, Bosnia, Troops

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• What conservatives and Republicans must recognize is that the White House has broken with them. What President Bush is doing, and has been doing for some time, is sundering a great political coalition.

  Peggy Noonan

  White, Broken, House

  "Too Bad". www.wsj.com. June 2, 2007.

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• The English language is not always the President's friend.

  George Will

  Language, English Language

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• A critical component of White House Scandal Defense 101 is rallying the partisan base. This keeps approval ratings in territory where the wheels don't start falling off. The way to achieve this goal is you go negative and you don't let up. If you're always attacking your accusers, the debate becomes one of Democrat vs. Republican, rather than right vs. wrong. Anyone who questions the legality of the decision to wiretap thousands of Americans unlawfully is attacked, as either an enabler of terrorists or a bitter partisan trying to distract a president at war.

  Bob Barr

  War, Fall, Approval Rating

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• The accusation that President Clinton cares deeply about nothing is refuted by his tenacious and guileful battle to prevent any meaningful limits on the form of infanticide known as partial-birth abortion.

  George Will

  Meaningful, Abortion, Battle

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• The President is the symbol of who the people of the United States are. He is the person who stands for us in the eyes of the world and the eyes of our children.

  William Bennett

  Children, Eye, People

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• President Obama said that over 40 countries have offered to help the U.S. fight ISIS. Of course they said it the same way your friends do when they promise to help you move. 'Yeah just call me, you know, if I'm around. It'll be fun.'

  Jimmy Fallon

  Country, Fun, Moving

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• Obamacare is the nation's biggest job killer and stands in the way of our country's economic growth and prosperity. It should be defunded and repealed. President Obama should hear the pleas from the untold number of Americans who are losing their jobs, wages, and healthcare plans, and Congress should act immediately to stop Obamacare from inflicting any more damage on the country on our hard-working citizens.

  Ted Cruz

  Country, Jobs, Hard Work

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• Fifty four percent of Republican voters believe President [Barack] Obama is Muslim.
  And 66 percent of Trump voters believe President Obama is Muslim. If you hear anyone trying to explain the rise of Donald Trump without including that fact, then you`re hearing someone who doesn`t know what they`re talking about.

  Lawrence O'Donnell

  Believe, Talking, Trying

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• Sixty one percent of Donald Trump`s supporters believe that President [Barack] Obama was not born in the United States.They believe Donald Trump`s lie about where President Obama was born, the lie he started telling four years ago and has since replaced with other hate-driven lies like the thousands of Muslims Donald Trump lies about having seen celebrating in New Jersey on 9/11.

  Lawrence O'Donnell

  Hate, Lying, Believe

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• Probably about 35 percent of Donald Trump`s supporters do not believe that President [Barack] Obama is Muslim or that he was not born in the United States.Those Trump supporters are not white supremacists. But if Trump did not have the support of Obama haters who believe that the President is a Muslim, who believe that he was not born in the United States, Donald Trump would lose two-thirds of his support.

  Lawrence O'Donnell

  Believe, Two, White

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• The American president has to both keep our families safe and make the economy grow in a way that helps everyone, not just those at the top. That`s the job. I have a strategy to combat and defeat ISIS without getting us involved in another ground war. And I have plans to raise incomes and deal with a lot of the problems that keep families up at night.

  Hillary Clinton

  Jobs, War, Night

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• I am a member of Congress. And I do have a choice as to whether or not to continue as DNC chair and be neutral and do everything I can and put in the kind of time and hours and days on the road that I do to make sure that we can elect Democrats up and down the ballot and elect a Democrat as president. Or I could not be chair and go work for the candidate of my choice. I`m choosing to remain as chair so that I can fight like hell to make sure that the jokers on the other side of the aisle aren`t able to get hold of the White House.

  Hillary Clinton

  Fighting, White, Choices

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• As the refugee crisis unfolds across Europe, another is looming in our backyard. The number of children crossing the southwest border unaccompanied has quietly surged more than a year after President [Barack] Obama referred to the problem as a quote "urgent humanitarian situation."

  Joy-Ann Reid

  Children, Years, Europe

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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