President Quotes - Page 30

• 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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• The Negroes of America had taken the President, the press and the pulpit at their word when they spoke in broad terms of freedom and justice. But the absence of brutality and unregenerate evil is not the presence of justice. To stay murder is not the same thing as to ordain brotherhood.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Taken, America, Evil

  Martin Luther King (Jr.), Michael K. Honey (2011). “All Labor Has Dignity”, p.110, Beacon Press

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• It is perhaps my greatest hope, Mr. President, that some day we'll consider tax and spending measures with no one else in mind but future generations of American taxpayers. We're tying a millstone of debt around their necks, and it is a grave mistake.

  John McCain

  Mistake, Mind, Generations

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• I have said many times in the past I don't choose to be vice president, either Republican, Democrat, Libertarian or vegetarian.

  John McCain

  Past, Vices, Libertarian

  "Countdown with Keith Olbermann", www.nbcnews.com. July 8, 2004.

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• My preference would be to remain in the Senate, ... But you can't say I would refuse to serve in one of those (Cabinet) capacities. It's not the same as vice president.

  John McCain

  Vices, Would Be, Cabinets

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• I spent several years in a North Vietnamese prison camp in the dark, fed with scraps. Do you think I want to do that all over again as vice president of the United States? The vice president has two duties. One is to break a tie in case of a tie vote in the United States Senate... The other is to inquire daily as to the health of the president. Neither one of those are very challenging as compared to being able to live for a good part of the time in the state of Arizona.

  John McCain

  Dark, Thinking, Years

  "News from CNN" with Thelma Gutierrez, www.cnn.com. May 28, 2004.

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• The question is not whether you would like to be president or not. The question is: Do you think you can win and do you want to run? And none of those are clear to me.

  John McCain

  Running, Winning, Thinking

  "McCain disputes Cheney on Iraq". www.cnn.com. June 20, 2005.

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• It is because I owe America more than she has ever owed me that I am a candidate for president to the United States.

  John McCain

  America, United States, Candidates

  "The McCain 'Late Show' Surprise". www.politico.com. March 1, 2007.

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• Arizona may be the only state in America where mothers don't tell their children that someday, they can grow up and be president of the United States.

  John McCain

  Mother, Children, Growing Up

  John McCain at Atlantic Council Awards Dinner, www.atlanticcouncil.org. April 29, 2010.

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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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• The president had a press conference about this this week and he said that the U.S. has no plans to attack North Korea. And then he added, 'Like having no plan ever stopped me before.'. He has something even more deadly in store for them - we're going to bring them democracy.

  Bill Maher

  Korea, Democracy, Week

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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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• I am the President of the United States of America, clothed in immense power! You will procure me these votes.

  Abraham Lincoln

  America, United States, Vote

  "Fictional character: Abraham Lincoln". "Lincoln", 2012.

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• Don't worry about finding your bliss right now. Not even our President knew what his bliss was, nor did I. One of these days to your own surprise, your bliss will find you. But no matter what you do, participate, be there, full force, full heart, full steam ahead.

  Barbara Walters

  Heart, Worry, Matter

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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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• I don't know how you make a record on liberal and conservative these days. We've had a conservative Republican Congress, so to speak, and a conservative president, and we've run up one of the most astounding deficits in the history of our nation.

  Sam Nunn

  Running, Records, Conservative

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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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• My teenage children watched Senator Clinton on the Today Show, mouths agape. They attended our local caucus with me and saw hundreds of our friends and neighbors gathered in the elementary school gym on that Sunday afternoon, despite an ugly Maine snowstorm. They listened to the thoughtful searching debates and saw us cast our votes. How could anyone suggest we didn't know exactly what we were doing? 'What's the point of electing someone who doesn't believe in the American people?' they asked. 'If she wants to ignore us now when she's only a candidate, what will she do as the President?'

  Shoshana Zuboff

  Teenage, Children, Believe

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• I do not begrudge Bill Clinton's working for his wife, but the one thing I would say is really important to President Clinton to think about right now, because of the larger megaphone he has as a former president, he really needs to be careful with the truth.

  Claire McCaskill

  Thinking, Wife, Important

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