Presidential Quotes - Page 30

• From the 12th Congressional District Hopeful William Jefferson Clinton during the Nixon investigations.
  I wanted to share some information I've turned up regarding two of your Clinton quotes.

  Keith Richards

  Two, Hopeful, Information

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• The other thing we have to do is to take seriously the role in this problem of . . . older men who prey on underage women. . . . There are consequences to decisions and . . . one way or the other, people always wind up being held accountable.

  William J. Clinton

  Men, Wind, People

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• I want to make it very clear that this middle-class tax cut, in my view, is central to any attempt we're going to make to have a short-term economic strategy and a long-term fairness strategy, which is part of getting this country going again.

  William J. Clinton

  Country, Cutting, Class

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• Thomas Jefferson believed that to preserve the very foundations of our Nation, we would need dramatic change from time to time. Well, my fellow Americans, this is our time. Let us embrace it.

  William J. Clinton

  Foundation, Needs, Citizens

  Bill Clinton's first inauguration speech, www.aol.com. January 20, 1993.

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• He needs to get a hard slap of reality in the face every once in a while. He has an arrogant side.

  Robbie Savage

  Reality, Needs, Arrogant

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• Stop telling the truth about my record!

  Bob Dole

  Records, Telling The Truth

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• Baseball is the greatest of all team sports.

  Herbert Hoover

  Sports, Baseball, Team

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I pride myself on being one of the oldest fans. I can certainly count up about seventy years of devotion.

  Herbert Hoover

  Baseball, Pride, Years

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• I protest that we fans are being emotionally starved and frustrated by long periods of perfect performance of these batteries. More over, when there are nothing but strikes and balls going on, you relapse into your worries over the Bank of England, or something else.

  Herbert Hoover

  Baseball, Perfect, Worry

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• I returned to the white House after midnight more depressed than ever before. I had long since arranged to attend the World Series in Philadelphia the next day. Although I like baseball, I kept this engagement only because I felt that my presence at a sporting event might be a gesture of reassurance to a country suffering from a severe attack of 'jitters.'

  Herbert Hoover

  Country, Baseball, Next Day

  Herbert Hoover (1952). “The great depression, 1929-1941”

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• I want more runs in baseball itself. When you were raised on a sandlot, where the scores ran twenty-three to sixty-one, you yearn for something more than a five to two score. You know as well as I do that the excitement, temperature and decibels of any big game today rise instantly when there is someone on base. It reaches ecstasy when somebody makes a run.

  Herbert Hoover

  Running, Baseball, Games

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• I was for a short time on the baseball team as shortstop, where I was not so good.

  Herbert Hoover

  Baseball, Team, Shortstops

  "The Memoirs of Herbert Hoover: Years of adventure, 1874-1920".

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• I was not able to work up much enthusiasm over the ball game, and in the midst of it I was handed a note informing me of the sudden death of Senator Dwight morrow. He had proved a great pillar of strength in the senate and his death was a great loss to the country and to me. I left the ballpark with the chant of the crowd ringing in my ears, 'We Want Beer!'

  Herbert Hoover

  Country, Baseball, Loss

  Herbert Hoover, (2013). “The Memoirs of Herbert Hoover - The Great Depression, 1929-1941”, p.90, Read Books Ltd

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• Somebody has inquired as to whether I will be going to the opening baseball game. I hope to have that pleasure.

  Herbert Hoover

  Baseball, Games, Pleasure

  United States. President (1929-1933 : Hoover), Herbert Hoover (1974). “Herbert Hoover: Containing the Public Messages, Speeches, and Statements of the President”

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• The rigid volunteer rules of right and wrong in sports are second only to religious faith in moral training.

  Herbert Hoover

  Sports, Baseball, Religious

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Through baseball we channel boys desire for exercise and let off their explosive violence without letting them get into the police court.

  Herbert Hoover

  Baseball, Exercise, Boys

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• If this isn't the Fat Lady singing, it's awful close to that. If Ari seriously thought she was a contender for the presidential nomination, he would not walk away right now.

  Stuart Rothenberg

  Singing, Nominations, Awful

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• Sooner or later, I need to begin to do what any candidate does in a presidential race; I need to begin to win.

  Lamar Alexander

  Winning, Race, Political

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• The typical presidential staff resents the vice-president even more than they do the first lady.

  Dick Morris

  Political, Vices, Typical

  Dick Morris (2007). “The New Prince: Machiavelli Updated for the Twenty-First Century”, p.157, St. Martin's Press

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• Americans long to be united. After 9/11, we all just wanted to be one nation. Not a single American on September the 12, 2001, cared who won the next presidential election.

  William J. Clinton

  Long, September 11, Next

  "Clinton: Time again to choose a more perfect union". William J. Clinton's speech to the Democratic National Convention, edition.cnn.com. July 27, 2004.

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• I would support a Presidential candidate who pledged to take the following steps: ... At the end of the war in the Persian Gulf, press for a comprehensive Middle East settlement and for a 'new world order' based not on Pax Americana but on peace through law with a stronger U.N. and World Court.

  George McGovern

  War, Order, Law

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• Libertarian presidential candidate André Marrou's idea is that "government power is opposed to individual liberty." Must we still debate such sophomoric notions?... Besides, liberty, although very important, is not the only value.

  George Will

  Government, Ideas, Individuality

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• A libertarian presidential candidate isn't going to win anyway, so he can afford to say that all taxation is theft, and it isn't the job of a libertarian presidential candidate to cook up new ways to commit theft.

  L. Neil Smith

  Jobs, Winning, Taxation

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• Nothing will motivate conservative evangelical Christians to vote Republican in the 2008 presidential election more than a Democratic nominee named Hillary Rodham Clinton - not even a run by the devil himself ... I certainly hope that Hillary is the candidate. She has $300 million so far. But I hope she's the candidate. Because nothing will energize my [constituency] like Hillary Clinton. If Lucifer ran, he wouldn't.

  Jerry Falwell

  Christian, Running, Devil

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• When I said during my presidential bid that I would only bring Christians and Jews into the government, I hit a firestorm. `What do you mean?' the media challenged me. `You're not going to bring atheists into the government? How dare you maintain that those who believe in the Judeo-Christian values are better qualified to govern America than Hindus and Muslims?' My simple answer is, `Yes, they are.'

  Pat Robertson

  Christian, Atheist, Believe

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