President Quotes - Page 29

• It's not just enough to change the president if we want to change America.

  Dan Quayle

  America, Want, Enough

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• Ronald Reagan is the most ignorant president since Warren Harding.

  Ralph Nader

  Ignorant, Warren Harding, Harding

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• I worry about a culture that devalues life and believe as your president I have an important obligation to foster and encourage respect for life in America and throughout the world.

  George W. Bush

  Believe, America, Worry

  Remarks on Stem Cell Research, delivered 9 August 2001

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• The job of the president of the United States is not to love his wife; it's to manage a wide range of complicated issues.

  Matthew Yglesias

  Jobs, Issues, Wife

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• Former South Africa President Nelson Mandela announced Tuesday he will begin writing his autobiography. He spent 25 years in prison before being elected to public office. In America, we do it the other way around.

  Argus Hamilton

  Writing, Years, America

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• Nothing works on the campaign trail like attacks on candidates for bad attendance. It alienates people on both sides of every issue and reflects a callous disregard of the work of the people. The feeble argument that "I'm running for president" isn't much of a rebuttal: George W. Bush finds time to be president, and he's running too.

  Dick Morris

  Running, Issues, People

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• President Obama is so much smarter and a better communicator than members of Congress in either party. The contrast, side by side, is almost ridiculous.

  Jonathan Chait

  Party, Sides, Ridiculous

  "PRUDEN: An FDR lesson Obama missed" by Wesley Pruden, www.washingtontimes.com. March 2, 2010.

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• It's easy being vice president - you don't have to do anything.

  Joe Biden

  Vices, Easy, Vice President

  "Biden - "It's Easy Being Vice President" by Dominique Pastre, www.foxnews.com. February 26, 2010.

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• Offering 'comprehensive' reform usually means years of arguing and horse-trading among pressure groups to get anything done. By the time all the special interests are appeased or bought off, the resulting elephantine legislation typically looks nothing like what was intended. In short, big-government medicine usually doesn't work on big-government sickness. If President Obama wants 'comprehensive' change, it would be better simply not to spend any more money we don't have.

  Victor Davis Hanson

  Horse, Mean, Government

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• In trying to explain our political paralysis, analysts cite President Obama's tactical missteps, the obstinacy of congressional Republicans, rising partisanship in Washington, and the Senate filibuster, which has devolved into a super-majority threshold for important legislation. These are large factors to be sure, but that list neglects what may be the biggest culprit of all: the childishness, ignorance, and growing incoherence of the public at large.

  Jacob Weisberg

  Ignorance, Political, Important

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• Ours is not the first generation to understand the dire need for health reform. And I am not the first president to take up this cause, but I am determined to be the last.

  Barack Obama

  Reform, Needs, Generations

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• Yesterday, President-elect Barack Obama announced his new economic team. You know what he should do? Hire those people who were in charge of his fundraising campaign. We can pay this thing off in like a week.

  Jay Leno

  Team, Yesterday, Fundraising

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• I watched that new reality show on ABC with Charlie Gibson, 'America's Next Top Vice President.' ... Oh, what an exciting show that is! Did you see Sarah Palin's interview with Charlie Gibson? Did you all watch that? In fact, John McCain was watching it at home, and at one point, he turned to his wife and said, 'She looks really familiar.'

  Jay Leno

  Home, Reality, America

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• You know, Sarah Palin is the Governor of Alaska, you know that. And she's a lifelong member of the National Rifle Association. So great, is what I'm thinking, another vice president that shoots a drinking buddy; just get ready.

  David Letterman

  Drinking, Thinking, Alaska

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• As you all know by now, Barack Obama sent out a cell phone text message at 3 a.m. on Saturday morning to tell everyone he picked Joe Biden as his vice president. How do you think this makes Hillary Clinton feel, huh? Finally, she gets a telephone call at 3 a.m., it's to tell her they picked Joe Biden.

  Jay Leno

  Morning, Thinking, Phones

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• As you know, John McCain is an older, white-haired man who has been in the Senate for over twenty years, voted for the Iraq War, and said Barack Obama did not have the experience to be president. I'm sorry, that's our intro for next week when Joe Biden is on, I got confused.

  Jay Leno

  Sorry, Confused, War

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• President Obama answered questions on YouTube today. He was asked 7,500 times about legalizing marijuana. And that was just from Chad in Portland.

  Conan O'Brien

  Marijuana, Portland, Today

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• I believe we're all aware that there are people and organizations throughout the world who are bent on destroying America, everything we stand for and inflicting harm on American citizens. It is the obligation of the president of the United States to respond to those. I believe, I must add, that this adminstration for the last seven months has neglected compelling national security threats besides this ... I hope that the president will not confine his activities to just this.

  John McCain

  Believe, Seven Months, Organization

  "A Quick Look At Reactions In Congress". www.cnn.com. August 20, 1998.

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• President Clinton broke ground Saturday for the World War II memorial in Washington. He'll never have the military's full respect. However, after surviving ten female accusers, he's been made an honorary member of the Tailhook Association.

  Argus Hamilton

  Military, War, Memorial

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• 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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• President Bush paid homage Wednesday to World War II veterans of Normandy at the D-Day Memorial. Later that night, his twin daughters paid a special tribute to World War II veterans of the Pacific. They each downed two kamikazes.

  Argus Hamilton

  Daughter, War, Night

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• Senate Democrats vowed Sunday to kill President Bush's energy plan. They think this is their ticket back to the White House in 2004. All they have to do now is figure out a way to get cars to run on beautiful pictures of Alaska.

  Argus Hamilton

  Beautiful, Running, Sunday

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• The greatest hope most Americans - including Republicans - had when Barack Obama was elected president was that the election of a black person as the country's president would reduce, if not come close to eliminating, the racial tensions that have plagued America for generations.

  Dennis Prager

  Country, America, Black

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• Not a single time have we gotten our rights from Congress or the President, we get them from God. And when He gives us those rights, He puts a warning bell inside of us. When somebody tries to take them, a warning bell goes off. And that's what America is feeling right now.

  Glenn Beck

  Rights, America, Giving

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• A large portion of American citizens, especially people of color, have lost confidence in our criminal justice system. Many have called for appointing special prosecutors when a police officer kills or injures a civilian. If you were elected president, would you publicly support special prosecutors in these cases and what is one other thing you would do to fix our broken justice system?

  Russell Simmons

  Color, Broken, Justice

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