President Quotes - Page 9

• When I become president, all you assholes that ride bikes in the city? Lock and load! You're going down!

  Denis Leary

  Cities, Locks, Bike

  "Denis Leary: Lock 'N Load". Documentary, Comedy, www.imdb.com. 1997.

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• God is only the president of the day, and Webster is his orator.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Orators

  Henry David Thoreau (2004). “Walden: 150th Anniversary Illustrated Edition of the American Classic”, p.321, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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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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• On a friendship with former president George W. Bush: He's a personal friend, but we've all got the right not to agree with our friends.

  Lance Armstrong

  Former, Agree, President George W Bush

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• Hillary Clinton said that her childhood dream was to be an Olympic athlete. But she was not athletic enough. She said she wanted to be an astronaut, but at the time they didn't take women. She said she wanted to go into medicine, but hospitals made her woozy. Should she be telling people this story? I mean she's basically saying she wants to be president because she can't do anything else.

  Jay Leno

  Dream, Athlete, Mean

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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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• President Bush spoke with the Amish. He didn't want to, but it was the only group he could find that wasn't upset about the high price of gas.

  Jay Leno

  Upset, Groups, Want

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• President Bush appeared with Arnold Schwarzenegger at a huge campaign event. Only in California can a governor who speaks German and a president who can barely speak English try to make themselves clear to an audience that's primarily Spanish.

  Jay Leno

  California, Speak English, Trying

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• President Obama wants Congress to increase the minimum wage. Believe me, when it comes to doing the minimum for their wage, Congress knows what it's talking about.

  Jay Leno

  Believe, Talking, Want

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• Iraq began destroying those missiles they don't have over the weekend. See, President Bush may be the smartest military president in history. First, he gets Iraq to destroy all of their own weapons. Then he declares war.

  Jay Leno

  Military, War, Weekend

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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