American President Quotes - Page 4

• While we dance in the streets and pat ourselves on the back for being a nation great enough to reach beyond racial divides to elect our first African-American president let us not forget that we remain a nation still proudly practicing prejudice.

  Harvey Fierstein

  African American, President, Prejudice

  "Historic for Some, Same Old Shit for the Rest of Us" by Harvey Fierstein, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 8, 2008.

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• We all remember that [Donald] Trump was one of the leaders of the so-called birther movement trying to delegitimize the presidency of our first African-American president Barack Obama, which is an outrage.

  John Lewis

  Leader, African American, President

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• For an American president to be aiding America's enemy in developing nuclear weapons technology is unprecedented, absolutely.

  Liz Cheney

  Technology, America, Enemy

  "Liz Cheney: We Must Unify Behind Trump". "The Rush Limbaugh Show", www.rushlimbaugh.com. August 12, 2016.

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• I don't recall an American president basically coming out and criticizing the Israeli public.

  Vijay Prashad

  President, Coming Out, Criticize

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• American presidential leadership never goes out of style.

  Monica Crowley

  Presidential, Style, Presidential Leadership

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• Gerhard Schröder offered a clear German NEIN to an American president's war of aggression that was in violation of international law. That took courage. Ms. Merkel did not join him at the time. If Trump now begins to take the wrecking ball to our set of values, we must say clearly: That is not our approach.

  Martin Schulz

  War, Law, President

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Like I say, if [Barack] Obama really, really wanted to use the law to stop acts of militant terrorism, he would get hold of the architects of Sharia, as the American president, and he'd say, "You know, you guys, you're gonna have to moderate this. This is not good. It's not right."

  Rush Limbaugh

  Law, Guy, President

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• Mr. Bush is flaky, incompetent, and the most dangerous American president in a generation.

  Mark Latham

  President, Generations, Dangerous

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• From Ukraine to Syria, he [Vladimir Putin] is behaving like the world's new general and celebrating victories, while the American president sits on the sidelines and Europe sleeps. The West's behavior toward Putin is political and moral capitulation.

  Garry Kasparov

  Sleep, Ukraine, Europe

  "Putin Needs Wars To Legitimize His Position". Interview with Erich Follath, www.spiegel.de. November 10, 2015.

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• The pattern of American presidential elections is that the more optimistic candidate, whether it's John Kennedy and let's get America moving again, Ronald Reagan, it's morning in America, or Barack Obama, yes, we can, always wins, or nearly always wins.

  Mark Shields

  Morning, Moving, Optimistic

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• What I want to do is basically tell my generation's story about how music and culture helped affect a generation, and a generation that's so profound, that it went on to elect the first African-American president.

  Steve Stoute

  Profound, African American, President

  Source: deadline.com

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• You [ the American President] can print more money, you just print and pay. I mean, it's a bad option, but you can do it.

  Eric Bolling

  Mean, President, Pay

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• In retrospect, I can see that President Brezhnev was quite proud of the limited agreement that he had concluded in Vladivostok; and to have a new American president come in and say, "That is not good enough - let's do much more, and do it quite rapidly," took him by surprise.

  Jimmy Carter

  Agreement, Not Good Enough, President

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• The Alliance and NATO is two different things. France is a member of the Alliance. NATO is an organization not mentioned in the North Atlantic Treaty, has been built up in the course of history, in the course of history France has left that organization. Normally the Alliance has been lead by consent, building up consensus on important issues of questions, in many instances over the last 30 years that I have followed events closely. In many, many cases was being done under the spiritual guidance of the American President, that is true, but sometimes also at the guidance of others.

  Helmut Schmidt

  Spiritual, Years, Building Up

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• I have said there are three principles that should be followed. One, we should maintain the "one China" policy that every American president has articulated, including President Reagan. Secondly, we should make clear that we want a peaceful resolution. And three, Taiwan should not challenge that arrangement in a way that will provoke a conflict. Those are three perfectly clear principles. I haven't used any of the other slogans.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Challenges, Peaceful, President

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Decisions made in Washington are more important to us than those made here in Dar es-Salaam. So, maybe my people should be allowed to vote in American presidential elections.

  Julius Nyerere

  People, Presidential, Decision

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• If you go to the Lincoln Memorial, the Second Inaugural is probably the most religious speech ever given by an American President. In its 732 words, it references God 14 times and has two verses of the Bible.

  Newt Gingrich

  Religious, Two, Memorial

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• I think there are white alumni out there who wouldn't mind having an African American president of their school, but would be reluctant to have an African American coach, because he represents the school so. I think it's just sheer backward racism.

  Frank Deford

  School, Thinking, White

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• This is America, where a white Catholic male Republican judge was murdered on his way to greet a Democratic Jewish woman member of Congress, who was his friend. Her life was saved initially by a 20-year old Mexican-American gay college student, and eventually by a Korean-American combat surgeon, all eulogized by our African American President.

  Mark Shields

  Gay, College, White

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• The American president has particular power. This makes Trump the most dangerous man in the world. He's equally dangerous because of his finger on the nuclear trigger and because of his mind ensconced in solipsistic reality. The two are a dreadful combination.

  Robert Jay Lifton

  Reality, Men, Mind

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• The fact is we're always going to be interwoven with the American economy, and that's why it's important to have a good, strong, constructive relationship with whoever the American President is and whatever administration it is, whatever their priorities. We will always work constructively together. But at the same time, Canadians expect us to stand up for our own values, to make our own choices, whether it's around climate or multilateral institutions, and that's exactly what we're going to keep doing.

  Justin Trudeau

  Strong, Choices, Priorities

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• That's not an accident that Donald Trump didn't begin with, say, trade or jobs or anything, that he actually began by otherizing the first African-American president of the United States.

  Ta-Nehisi Coates

  Jobs, African American, President

  Source: www.npr.org

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• You want to talk about doing damage to our elections and damaging our stature, to have it just thought and stated repeatedly that the strongman of Russia can pick an American presidential candidate and get him or her elected? Do you think if Hillary had won and the Republicans had tried this line that Putin chose her, do you think that would have gotten past a day in the Drive-By Media? They wouldn't have even taken the story. They'd laughed at it, sloughed it off, and you'd-a never heard about it.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Taken, Past, Thinking

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• Now an American president like [Ronald] Reagan wouldn't have a meeting, wouldn't have a summit. He'd give 'em a warning and then - or [Gerge W.] Bush would give 'em a warning and then - whatever would happen. Because you don't allow the murder of American citizens. You just don't permit it.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Giving, President, Citizens

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• We've just got to have American strength on the world stage. When Donald Trump becomes president of the United States, the Russians and other countries in the world will know they're dealing with a strong American president.

  Mike Pence

  Country, Strong, President

  "National Security Highlights from the Vice Presidential Debate" by Zachary Burdette, Quinta Jurecic, www.lawfareblog.com. October 5, 2016.

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