President Quotes - Page 25

• 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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• 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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• 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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• It is absolutely right that President Reagan considers SDI and thank goodness people considered nuclear research before the last war.

  Margaret Thatcher

  War, People, Nuclear

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• A reporter meets interesting people. If he endures, he will get to know princes and presidents, popes and paupers, prostitutes and panderers. And always, in the back of his head, there will be a dozen men and women he will never meet. And always, he will feel the poorer for it.

  Jim Bishop

  Men, People, Interesting

  "Fish Out Of Water: Number 3 in series". Book by MaryJanice Davidson, p. 10, February 6, 2014.

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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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• Don't you think that being a person of faith has become a third rail in American politics? If you want to run for president nowadays, you'd better get out there and say you're a very faith-based person.

  Bill Maher

  Running, Thinking, Politics

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• The comedy gods are smiling on me tonight, because I have been saying, for the longest time, that president Bush must set a timetable for removing his head from his ass...and, by god, today they went in and looked for it... They didn't find it. So now we don't know where it is, but at least for once in my life, I get to see the words "Bush", "operation", and "success" in the same sentence.

  Bill Maher

  Successful, Lasts, Tonight

  "Bill Maher: The Decider". Documentary, Comedy, 2007.

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• Mitt Romney looks like an American President in a Canadian movie.

  David Letterman

  Looks, American President, Romney

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• Arnold Schwarzenegger met with President Bush. It's amazing if you think about it. It was the Terminator and the One-Term-inator.

  David Letterman

  Thinking, Schwarzenegger, Mets

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• Every day is President's Day when you have an intern!

  David Letterman

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• President Obama could keep a big map with push pins on it to keep track of how many countries hate us, and when we get down to only half, let's have a ball. I'll blow up the balloons myself.

  Paula Poundstone

  Country, Hate, Blow

  "Celebrate Bad Times, Come On!" by Paula Poundstone, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 7, 2009.

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• I read this morning that he's [Saddam Hussein] also said the love that the Iraqis have for him is so much greater than anything Americans feel for their President because he's been loved for 35 years, he says, the whole 35 years.

  Diane Sawyer

  Morning, Years, Hussein

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• I understand I'm running against a person who is so anxious to become president, he will do whatever it takes.

  George W. Bush

  Running, Anxious, Whatever It Takes

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• They all start competing against Lincoln as the greatest president. And the [library] building becomes the symbol, the memorial to that dream.

  Doris Kearns Goodwin

  Dream, Memorial, Library

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• I never thought that Bill Clinton should be the president. When he was running to be the president of the United States, he said on over a hundred occasions, he said the following: He said, 'One of the great accomplishments while I was the governor of Arkansas, was to take my state in education from 50th to 49th.' And I thought, ' you know, Bill, you should keep that a secret.

  Lewis Black

  Running, Accomplishment, Secret

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• Don't accept the post or stay unless you have an understanding with the President that you're free to tell him what you think "with the bark off" and you have the courage to do it.

  Donald Rumsfeld

  Thinking, Understanding, Accepting

  Donald Rumsfeld (2001). “Public Statements of Donald H. Rumsfeld, Secretary of Defense, 2001”

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• I tend to pair up Benjamin Harrison and Dwight Eisenhower because they're the two presidents I can think of who most preferred laziness to labor.... There's not much else you can say about Harrison except that he was president of the United States.

  Harry S. Truman

  Thinking, Two, Pairs

  Harry S. Truman (2015). “Where the Buck Stops: The Personal and Private Writings of Harry S. Truman”, p.50, New Word City

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• I feel like the American people are being lied to and manipulated. President Bush is trying to force 9/11 and Saddam together.

  Janeane Garofalo

  People, Trying, Together

  "Questioning Bush's motives on Iraq". "In the Crossfire" with Tucker Carlson, James Carville, www.cnn.com. March 10, 2003.

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• The president's need for complete candor and objectivity from advisers calls for great deference from the courts.

  Warren E. Burger

  Objectivity, Needs, Court

  Warren E. Burger (1984). “Significant Supreme Court Opinions of the Honorable Warren E. Burger: Chief Justice of the United States”

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• I tremendously admire, and I think we all should, the great work done by our commander in chief, our president George Bush...

  Wesley Clark

  Thinking, Done, Great Work

  "Judy Woodruff's Inside Politics", votesmart.org. October 20, 2003.

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• Former president George W. Bush released his new memoir. By the way, 'memoir' is just a fancy word for 'a bunch of stuff that happened to me.

  Craig Ferguson

  Fancy, Stuff, Way

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• The virus in the movie 'Contagion' is based on the bird flu which came out of nowhere back in 2008. Everyone thought it was going to change the way we live and it just faded away. Wait a minute, I'm talking about President Obama.

  Craig Ferguson

  Talking, Bird, Waiting

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• Right now the best way that I can impact the world is through entertainment. One day, and that day will come, I can impact the world through politics. The great news is that I am American, therefore I can become President. But don't forget: I am G.I. Joe.

  Dwayne Johnson

  Impact, One Day, News

  "The Rock, Dwayne Johnson, on ‘Journey 2,’ Fighting At WrestleMania and His Political Future". Interview With Eric Larnick, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 7, 2012.

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• On Sunday, the president flies to the Azores islands to attend a summit with British Prime Minister Tony Blair and Spanish Prime Minister Jose Aznar, and here's my prediction: Bush gets voted off.

  Craig Kilborn

  Sunday, Islands, Prime

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