President Quotes - Page 24

• My president will boldly throw 1 million into poverty.

  Charles Rangel

  Poverty, Millions

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• I've always thought that the President could do so much here to help change images. If the President would go into a public bathroom in the Capitol, and have the TV cameras film him cleaning the toilets and saying 'Why not? Somebody's got to do it!' then that would do so much for the morale of the people who do the wonderful job of keeping the toilets clean. I mean, it is a wonderful thing that they're doing.

  Andy Warhol

  Jobs, Mean, People

  Andy Warhol (2014). “The Philosophy of Andy Warhol: From A to B and Back Again”, p.113, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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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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• No one has died from giving a bad presentation. Well, at least one person did, President William Henry Harrison, but he developed pneumonia after giving the longest inaugural address in U.S. history. The easy lesson from his story: keep it short, or you might die.

  Scott Berkun

  Pneumonia, Giving, Stories

  Scott Berkun (2009). “Confessions of a Public Speaker”, p.13, "O'Reilly Media, Inc."

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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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• Maxwell's Equations have had a greater impact on human history than any ten presidents.

  Carl Sagan

  Impact, Maxwell, Equations

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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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• Before any American points a finger at President Putin and calls him nasty names, they should recognize that a lot of Americans agree with Putin on his stance against homosexual and transgender people.

  Henry Rollins

  Names, People, Nasty

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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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• Enough Americans saw fit to give president Obama a second term. I don't think there will be many people keeping their Romney/Ryan bumper stickers on their cars.

  Henry Rollins

  Thinking, People, Giving

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• I don't believe it mattered to Timothy McVeigh who was president or who his congressional representative was when he blew up the Murrah Building in 1995.

  Henry Rollins

  Believe, Building, Representatives

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• President Bush, yes, spent money like a drunken sailor, and left the nation with a record $400-billion deficit. President Obama, however, is spending far more money than Bush, with a record $1.8 trillion deficit projected for his first year.

  Paul Kengor

  Years, Records, Sailor

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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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• President George Bush declared a National Day of Prayer for Peace. This was after he had carefully arranged and started the war.

  George Carlin

  Prayer, War, National Day Of Prayer

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• I have a huge crush on President George W. Bush. I saw him at a recent fundraiser, and he`s a babe. He`s got that Ronald Reagan charm. I think he`s hot. I respect his wife, but if he wasn`t married I`d be putting on my cowboy boots and coming around.

  Roseanne Barr

  Crush, Cowboy, Thinking

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• President James Garfield could write in Latin with one hand while writing in Greek with the other. I would give my right arm to be ambidextrous.

  Jay Leno

  Latin, Writing, Hands

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

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• Good news. President Bush is creating thousands of new jobs. Unfortunately, all of them are at the White House.

  Jay Leno

  Jobs, White, Creating

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• President Bush said the other day the war is not about timetables. It's about winning. Hey, it worked in Florida.

  Jay Leno

  War, Winning, Florida

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• Egyptian President Sadat had a belly dancer entertain President Nixon at a state dinner. Mr. Nixon was really impressed. He hadn't seen contortions like that since Rose Mary Woods.

  Johnny Carson

  Rose, Dancer, Dinner

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• Did you know Richard Nixon is the only president whose formal portrait was painted by a police sketch artist?

  Johnny Carson

  Artist, Police, Portraits

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• George Washington, who said to his father, Dad, if I never tell I lie, how am I ever gonna become President? Never got a dinner!

  Red Buttons

  Dad, Father, Lying

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• Vanity Fair magazine reports that former President Clinton and Al Gore haven't spoken to each other since George W. Bush's inauguration. Not only that, Bill and his wife, Hillary, haven't spoken since Richard Nixon's inauguration.

  Conan O'Brien

  Vanity, Wife, Bills

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• The president is not doing well with African Americans. His popularity rating - his approval rating - with blacks: two percent. Two percent. That is somewhere between Mark Fuhrman and sickle cell anemia.

  Bill Maher

  Approval Rating, Cells, Two

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• A president can be unpopular for good reasons. You know, I'm not always on the side that the people are right, for God's sake. But, you know, he's not popular when he goes overseas. He couldn't go to Rosa Parks' funeral.

  Bill Maher

  People, Funeral, Sake

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• Middle names are kind of like vice presidents: It's a fine distinction and certainly an honor, but you're never not aware that someone else got the real job.

  Paul Reiser

  Jobs, Real, Names

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