Presidential Quotes - Page 14

• But did you know that during the past quarter century, no presidential election has been won by more than ten million ballots cast? Yet every federal election during the same time period had at least one hundred million people of voting age who did not bother to vote!

  Andy Andrews

  Past, Voting Age, People

  Andy Andrews (2012). “How Do You Kill 11 Million People? (International Edition): Why the Truth Matters More Than You Think”, p.45, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• We celebrate the past to awaken the future.

  John F. Kennedy

  Inspirational, Time, Past

  John F. Kennedy's Speech at the 25th Anniverary of the Signing of the Social Security Act, Hyde Park, New York, www.jfklibrary.org. August 14, 1960.

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• What really counts is not the immediate act of courage or of valor, but those who bear the struggle day in and day out - not the sunshine patriots but those who are willing to stand for a long period of time.

  John F. Kennedy

  Courage, Struggle, Sunshine

  Kennedy, John F. (1963). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1962”, p.185, Best Books on

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• Freedom is a fragile thing and is never more than one generation away from extinction. It is not ours by inheritance; it must be fought for and defended constantly by each generation, for it comes only once to a people. Those who have known freedom, and then lost it, have never known it again.

  Ronald Reagan

  Freedom, People, Liberty

  Ronald Reagan, Michael Reagan (2016). “The Last Best Hope: The Greatest Speeches of Ronald Reagan”, p.7, Humanix Books

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• At a press conference yesterday NASA announced that 2005 was the hottest year on record. It is so hot, and global warming is so bad, if the presidential election were held today, Al Gore would still lose.

  Jay Leno

  Years, Yesterday, Hot

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• A government which lays taxes on the people not required by urgent public necessity and sound public policy is not a protector of liberty, but an instrument of tyranny. It condemns the citizen to servitude.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Government, People, Liberty

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• If we celebrate Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday at a time of presidential inaugurals, this is thanks to Ronald Reagan who created the holiday, and not to the Democratic Congress of the Carter years, which rejected it.

  David Horowitz

  Birthday, Kings, Holiday

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• To further the appreciation of culture among all the people, to increase respect for the creative individual, to widen participation by all the processes and fulfillments of artthis is one of the fascinating challenges of these days.

  John F. Kennedy

  Appreciation, People, Creative

  John Fitzgerald Kennedy, Magnum Photos, inc, John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts (U.S.) (1962). “Creative America”

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• Today, possible presidential candidate Donald Trump released his birth certificate. It lists his eyes as blue and his hair as ridiculous.

  Conan O'Brien

  Eye, Hair, Blue

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• Former President George W. Bush has hired a man to lead his presidential think tank in Dallas. The man was hired because he was the only candidate who could say the words, 'George W. Bush think tank' with a straight face.

  Conan O'Brien

  Men, Thinking, Tanks

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• Presidents and presidential assassins are like Las Vegas and Salt Lake City. Even though one city is all about sin and the other is all about salvation, they are identical, one-dimensional company towns built up by the sheer will of true believers.

  Sarah Vowell

  Cities, Lakes, Vegas

  Sarah Vowell (2005). “Assassination Vacation”, p.7, Simon and Schuster

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• I read the book [My Life by Bill Clinton] completely. And I think it compares very favorably with Ulysses S. Grant's gold standard of presidential autobiographies.

  Dan Rather

  Book, Thinking, Ulysses's Grant

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• Democratic presidential candidate Al Gore officially introduced his history-making running mate today, Senator Joseph Lieberman of Connecticut....In their first joint appearance they gave a preview of the Gore-Lieberman fight-back, comeback strategy. Their message: They represent the future, not the past, and they are the ticket of high moral standards most in tune with real mainstream America.

  Dan Rather

  Running, Real, Fighting

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• Sen. Joe Biden, on the day of announcing his candidacy for president of the United States, called Barack Obama the first mainstream African-American who is articulate, bright, and . . . clean. I think we've seen the shortest presidential campaign in history.

  Jay Leno

  Thinking, African American, Biden

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• I ask that all Americans demonstrate in their personal and public lives... the high ethical standards that are essential to good character and to the continued success of our Nation.

  William J. Clinton

  Character, Ethical Standards, Essentials

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• If I'm the president of the United States, I walk right into Union Square, I set up my little presidential podium, and I say, 'Listen, citizens of San Francisco, if you vote against military recruiting, you're not going to get another nickel in federal funds. Fine. You want to be your own country? Go right ahead. And if Al Qaeda comes in here and blows you up, we're not going to do anything about it. We're going to say, look, every other place in America is off limits to you, except San Francisco. You want to blow up the Coit Tower? Go ahead.'

  Bill O'Reilly

  Country, Military, Blow

  "The Radio Factor", November 8, 2005.

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• You cannot win a battle in any arena merely by defending yourself.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Success, Winning, Battle

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• I think the Democratic Party realizes, having lost two presidential elections, we need to do a better job of creating a farm team.

  John Mahoney

  Jobs, Team, Party

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• If image is everything, how can the Democratic presidential hopefuls compete with a President fresh from a war victory.

  Judy Woodruff

  War, Air, Victory

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• Hurricane Sandy interrupted Mr. Romney’s momentum and allowed Mr. Obama to look presidential and bipartisan.

  Karl Rove

  Momentum, Looks, Hurricane Sandy

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• Public debt [is] a burden on all the people.

  Calvin Coolidge

  People, Debt, Burden

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• All power in human hands is liable to be abused.

  James Madison

  Hands, Liable, Humans

  James Madison, David B. Mattern (1997). “James Madison's "Advice to My Country"”, p.80, University of Virginia Press

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• A strong nation, like a strong person, can afford to be gentle, firm, thoughtful, and restrained. It can afford to extend a helping hand to others. It's a weak nation, like a weak person, that must behave with bluster and boasting and rashness and other signs of insecurity.

  Jimmy Carter

  Strong, Thoughtful, Compassion

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• The American dream is not that every man must be level with every other man. The American dream is that every man must be free to become whatever God intends he should become.

  Ronald Reagan

  Dream, Freedom, Men

  Ronald Reagan (1993). “Actor, Ideologue, Politician: The Public Speeches of Ronald Reagan”, Greenwood Publishing Group

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• There is a connection, hard to explain logically but easy to feel, between achievement in public life and progress in the arts. The age of Pericles was also the age of Phidias. The age of Lorenzo de Medici was also the age of Leonardo da Vinci. The age of Elizabeth was also the age of Shakespeare. And the New Frontier for which I campaign in public life, can also be a New Frontier for American art.

  John F. Kennedy

  Art, Achievement, Progress

  Response to letter sent by Theodate Johnson on September 13, 1960. "John F. Kennedy Quotations: The Arts", www.jfklibrary.org.

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