Presidential Quotes - Page 31

• 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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• Given the realities of the U.S. criminal justice system, the prosecution may be unable to salvage this case. But just because that system fails victims on the regular doesn't mean we have to, too. French commentators are already calling for DSK to jump back into the country's presidential race and ride a wave of sympathy into office. Really, the stakes are greater than even that political prize. If we accept the narrative that only perfect women are raped, we risk sacrificing justice not only for this woman, but for victims of sexual assault everywhere. After all, nobody's perfect.

  Jaclyn Friedman

  Country, Mean, Sacrifice

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• It is time for Democrats who distrust President Bush to acknowledge that he will be commander in chief for three more critical years, and that in matters of war we undermine presidential credibility at our nation's peril.

  Joe Lieberman

  War, Years, Three

  "Lieberman's Iraq Views Rankle Some Democrats". www.foxnews.com. December 10, 2005.

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• I have terrible short-term memory loss, which I like to think of as Presidential eligibility.

  Paula Poundstone

  Memories, Loss, Thinking

  "Paula Poundstone: Look What the Cat Dragged In". TV Movie, November 7, 2006.

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• Under a Presidential government, a nation has, except at the electing moment, no influence; it has not the ballot-box before it; its virtue is gone, and it must wait till its instant of despotism again returns.

  Walter Bagehot

  Government, Waiting, Gone

  Walter Bagehot (1930). “The English Constitution: And Other Political Essays”, p.44, Lulu.com

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• There is no more dangerous thing for a democracy than a foreign policy based on presidential preventive war.

  Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

  War, Democracy, Dangerous

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• I was recruited by my family the day after the presidential election. My daughters were visually upset at the results and asked, ‘what are we going to do?’ I told my wife Christie that they were right, I had to do something. It was my time to step up and serve.

  Bobby Schilling

  Daughter, Wife, Upset

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• Sen. Frist has every right, and indeed the duty, to see that every presidential nominee for the Federal bench at every level gets an up or down vote.

  John Jay Hooker

  Benches, Levels, Vote

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• Every four years the naive half who vote are encouraged to believe that if we can elect a really nice man or woman President everything will be all right. But it won't be. Any individual who is able to raise $25 million to be considered presidential is not going to be much use to the people at large. He will represent oil, or aerospace, or banking, or whatever moneyed entities are paying for him. Certainly he will never represent the people of the country, and they know it. Hence, the sense of despair throughout the land as incomes fall, businesses fail and there is no redress.

  Gore Vidal

  Country, Nice, Fall

  Gore Vidal (2002). “The Last Empire: Essays 1992-2000”, p.416, Vintage

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• In the 2004 presidential election, we saw a wonderful example of citizens making contributions. In fact, individual giving to both the Kerry and Bush campaigns was the highest in our nation's history.

  Mark Shields

  Giving, Example, Campaigns

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• As lawmakers, we must assure the people of America that our nation will not experience the nightmare of the 2000 presidential election.

  Eddie Bernice Johnson

  America, People, Election

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• Do you suppose a woman knows why she loves? Does she select? Does she say to herself, 'Go to! here is a distinguished statesman with presidential possibilities; I shall proceed to fall in love with him.' or, 'I shall set my heart upon this musician, whose fame is on every tongue?' or 'this financier, who controls the world's money markets?'

  Kate Chopin

  Falling In Love, Heart, Musician

  Kate Chopin (2013). “The Awakening: And Selected Short Stories - Beyond the Bayou, Ma'ame Pelagie, Desiree's Baby, Respectable Woman, Kiss, Pair of Silk Stockings, Locket, Reflection (Beloved Books Edition)”, p.115, Lulu Press, Inc

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• I think that the media is as divided on this issue [of gay marriage] as the Obama family — which is to say not at all. And so he’s never going to get negative coverage for this....When you have almost the entire media establishment on your side on an issue in a presidential campaign, it’s very hard to lose politically.

  Mark Halperin

  Gay, Thinking, Your Side

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• After the rigged Iranian presidential elections in 2009, the Islamic regime attacked the 'humanities' as the main source of protests, the most effective tool used by the West, especially America, to corrupt and incite Iranian youth, and finally closed down all the Humanities departments in Iran's universities.

  Azar Nafisi

  Islamic, America, Iran

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• During my 2004 presidential campaign, I was fond of saying that it was high time for the Christian right to meet the right Christians.

  Al Sharpton

  Christian, Campaigns, Affection

  "Sharpton: Sexually-based issues dividing black churches" by Al Sharpton, www.cnn.com. October 20, 2006.

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• Federal elections happen every two years in this country. Presidential elections every four years. And four years just isn't long enough to dismantle all the environmental laws we've got in this country.

  Jared Diamond

  Country, Years, Law

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• A presidential speech is always the work of many hands.

  David Frum

  Hands, Speech, Many Hands

  "The Bush Administration is Caught Half-Way Across a Bridge". Interview with Georg Mascolo, www.spiegel.de. January 23, 2007.

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• Ronald Reagan, of course, was a Republican governor of California who went through a painful defeat in the 1976 presidential race before winning four years later

  Michael Medved

  Pain, Winning, California

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• Presidential power is the power to persuade.

  Richard Neustadt

  Presidential Power

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