Presidential Quotes - Page 35

• I debated in high school! If you told things that weren't true or just made things out of whole cloth, you were penalized. It's too bad they don't apply the same standards to presidential candidates as they do to high school students.

  Mark Hamill

  School, Students, Made

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• The average GOP presidential vote in these last five elections was 44.5 percent. In the last three, it was 48.1 percent. Give Romney an extra point for voter disillusionment with Obama, and a half-point for being better financed than his predecessors. It still strikes me as a path to narrow defeat.

  William Kristol

  Average, Giving, Voters

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• The 2004 Election marks the first time in modern political history that Republican voter turnout matched Democratic turnout in a presidential election year.

  Jeff Miller

  Years, Political, Voter Turnout

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• Not a season passes without new disclosures showing Nixon's numerous attempts at criminal use of his presidential powers and in fact the scorn he held for the rule of law.

  Bob Woodward

  Law, Criminals, Use

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• Outside events can change a presidential campaign, a president, and the history of the nation: the Iranian hostage crisis, the bombing of the Marine barracks in Beirut, the downing of the helicopter in Mogadishu, Somalia, the suicide attack on the USS Cole, and, of course, the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.

  Mark McKinnon

  Suicide, Marine, Hostage Crisis

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• Of all presidential perks, the pardon power has a special significance. It is just the kind of authority that would attract the special attention of someone obsessed with himself and his own ability to influence events.

  Barbara Olson

  Special, Attention, Events

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• The weak economy, widening income inequality, gridlock in Congress and a presidential election: Those were perhaps the dominant economic and political themes of 2012.

  Steven Rattner

  Economic Inequality, Political, Income

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• The presidential candidates are offering prescriptions for everything from Iraq to healthcare, but listen closely. Their fixes are situational and incremental. Meanwhile, the underlying structural problems in American politics and government are systemic and prevent us from solving our most intractable challenges.

  Larry Sabato

  Government, Offering, Iraq

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• You know a Senate race is obviously a much smaller deal than a presidential race. What I think makes a very hard job considerably easier when you're going to debate is if you have reminded yourself - or somebody has reminded you during the course of your campaign - that consistency is enormously important. That people don't want to hear you say one thing in one part of the state and another thing in another part of the state.

  Michael Bennet

  Jobs, Thinking, Race

  "Transcript: Face to Face with Sen. Bennet". Interview with John Dickerson, www.cbsnews.com. October 3, 2012.

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• Al Gore adopted three utterly different personas in three national presidential debates.

  Rich Lowry

  Different, Three, Als

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• You see, even though back then Barack was a Senator and a presidential candidate... to me, he was still the guy who'd picked me up for our dates in a car that was so rusted out, I could actually see the pavement going by through a hole in the passenger side door... he was the guy whose proudest possession was a coffee table he'd found in a dumpster, and whose only pair of decent shoes was half a size too small.

  Michelle Obama

  Coffee, Shoes, Doors

  Michelle Obama's speech at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, N.C., www.npr.org. September 4, 2012.

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• I perfectly understood President Obama's attitude throughout the French presidential campaign. He had no reason to distance himself from Nicolas Sarkozy. It's the basic solidarity that leaders who worked together owe to each other.

  Francois Hollande

  Attitude, Distance, Leader

  "Francois Hollande: 'France Isn't Just Any Country'". Slate.fr interview, www.slate.com. May 7, 2012.

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• The Commission on Presidential Debates must be replaced if we want to have a democracy in this country.

  John B. Anderson

  Country, Democracy, Want

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• Every man needs a good, solid watch. My favorite watch is the Presidential Rolex. I own many watches, but this one is usually the one on my wrist. I buy mine in the Diamond District in New York City. Classic.

  French Montana

  New York, Men, Cities

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• We have a presidential election coming up. And I think the big problem, of course, is that someone will win.

  Barry Crimmins

  Winning, Thinking, Voting

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• A decent and manly examination of the acts of government should not only be tolerated, but encouraged.

  William Henry Harrison

  Government, Examination, Should

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• Wouldn`t it be great for some of the Republican candidates to stand up to the money guys
  and say, if you want a presidential nominee who will do what the Bushes did, go from war to war, look elsewhere.

  Chris Matthews

  War, Guy, Looks

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• It may seem to your conceited to suppose that you can do anything important toward improving the lot of mankind. But this is a fallacy. You must believe that you can help bring about a better world. A good society is produced only by good individuals, just as truly as a majority in a presidential election is produced by the votes of single electors. Everybody can do something toward creating in his own environment kindly feelings rather than anger, reasonableness rather than hysteria, happiness rather than misery.

  Bertrand Russell

  Believe, Conceited, Hysteria

  Bertrand Russell, John Greer Slater, Peter Köllner (1996). “A Fresh Look at Empiricism: 1927-42”, p.642, Psychology Press

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• I will not step down, I will not resign, ... I will work to the end of my term in office under the constitution. In the year 2000, there will be presidential elections under the constitution and I will not run in those elections.

  Boris Yeltsin

  Running, Years, Office

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• Who can guarantee that he [Alexander Milinkevich, a Belarussian opposition presidential candidate] is the most promising candidate capable of competing with the incumbent president?

  Alexander Lukashenko

  Guarantees That, Competing, Candidates

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• I hold that in this country there must be complete severance of Church and State; that public moneys shall not be used for the purpose of advancing any particular creed; and therefore that the public schools shall be nonsectarian and no public moneys appropriated for sectarian schools.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Country, School, Religion

  Theodore Roosevelt (2005). “Fear God and Take Your Own Part”, p.361, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Republicans are having trouble luring Gov. Chris Christie into the presidential race. They should try pie.

  David Letterman

  Race, Pie, Trying

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• Have you seen these Republican presidential candidates? I bet Obama is sorry now that he spent all that money on the new birth certificate.

  David Letterman

  Sorry, Birth, Republican

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• The Great Society is a place where every child can find knowledge to enrich his mind and to enlarge his talents. It is a place where the city of man serves not only the needs of the body and the demands of commerce but the desire for beauty and the hunger for community. It is a place where men are more concerned with the quality of their goals than the quantity of their goods.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Beauty, Children, Men

  The Great Society, delivered 22 May 1964, Ann Arbor, MI

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• It is an incalculable added pleasure to any one's sum of happiness if he or she grows to know, even slightly and imperfectly, how to read and enjoy the wonder-book of nature.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Book, Wonder, Pleasure

  Theodore Roosevelt (1990). “Outdoor Pastimes of an American Hunter”, p.339, Stackpole Books

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