Presidency Quotes - Page 13

• No man could be equipped for the presidency if he has never been tempted by one of the seven cardinal sins.

  Eugene McCarthy

  Men, Political, Politics

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• The student community of Presidency College was also politically most active.

  Amartya Sen

  College, Community, Students

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• The Presidency is not merely an administrative office. Thats the least of it. It is more than an engineering job, efficient or inefficient. It is pre-eminently a place of moral leadership. All our great Presidents were leaders of thought at times when certain historic ideas in the life of the nation had to be clarified.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Jobs, Engineering, Moral Leadership

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• No real-world human being brings to the U.S. presidency the range of attributes necessary for full success in the job.

  James Fallows

  Jobs, Real, World

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• There has been a lot of talk lately about the burdens of the Presidency. Decisions that the President has to make often affect the lives of tens of millions of people around the world, but that does not mean that they should take longer to make. Some men can make decisions and some cannot. Some men fret and delay under criticism. I used to have a saying that applies here, and I note that some people have picked it up, If you cant stand the heat, get out of the kitchen.

  Harry S. Truman

  Mean, Men, People

  Harry S. Truman (1960). “Mr. Citizen”

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• I began by telling the President that there was a cancer growing on the presidency, and if the cancer was not removed, the president himself would be killed by it.

  John Dean

  Cancer, President, Would Be

  "The Secret Government: The Constitution in Crisis" with Bill Moyers, billmoyers.com. November 4, 1987.

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• This is the man (Ronald Reagan) who proved that ignorance is no handicap to the presidency

  Molly Ivins

  Ignorance, Men, He Man

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• Presidents are not permitted to have personal feelings.

  William J. Clinton

  Feelings, President, Personal Feelings

  Clinton, William J. (2000). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 2000-2001”, p.2644, Best Books on

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• Only a madman or an actor would want to be President of the United States.

  Mick Jagger

  President, Actors, Want

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• I teach at USC, and it's obvious to anyone who teaches college students that they don't cover much modern history and certainly not the modern presidency.

  Robert Scheer

  Teaching, College, Usc

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• Many of the most highly publicized events of my presidency are not nearly as memorable or significant in my life as fishing with my daddy.

  Jimmy Carter

  Memorable, Lakes, Sea

  Jimmy Carter (1994). “An Outdoor Journal: Adventures and Reflections”, p.35, University of Arkansas Press

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• All respect for the office of the presidency aside, I assumed that the obvious and unadulterated decline of freedom and constitutional sovereignty, not to mention the efforts to curb the power of judicial review, spoke for itself.

  Ruth Bader Ginsburg

  Aggravation, Office, Effort

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• All of the great patriots now engaged in edging and squirming their way toward the Presidency of the Republic run true to form. That is to say, they are all extremely wary, and all more or less palpable frauds. What they want, primarily, is the job; the necessary equipment of unescapable issues, immutable principles and soaring ideals can wait until it becomes more certain which way the mob will be whooping.

  H. L. Mencken

  Running, Jobs, Issues

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• It all started off with stirring speeches, Greek columns, the thrill of something new. Now all that's left is a presidency adrift, surviving on slogans that already seem tired, grasping at a moment that has already passed, like a ship trying to sail on yesterday's wind.

  Paul Ryan

  Tired, Wind, Yesterday

  Republican National Convention VP Nomination Acceptance, delivered 29 August 2012, Tampa, Florida

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• Well, Warren Harding, I have got you the presidency. What are you going to do with it?

  Florence Harding

  Warren Harding, Wells, Harding

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• Those few days after Kent State were among the darkest of my presidency.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Political, Revolution, States

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• This act will leave a moral blot on his presidency

  Marian Wright Edelman

  Stupid, Humorous, Moral

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• Modern Democrats aren't the first political party to abuse power - far from it. Obama isn'€™t the first president to abuse executive power - not by a longshot. But he has to be the first president in American history to overtly and consistently argue that he's empowered to legislate if Congress doesn'€™t pass the laws he favors. It's an argument that's been mainstreamed by partisans and cheered on by those in media desperate to find a morsel of triumph in this presidency.

  David Harsanyi

  Party, Media, Law

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• Nor did Americans believe that Republicans had been waging war on minorities, women, or gays - especially given that Republicans have held the House only since 2011 and have been out of power in the Senate and presidency since 2009.

  Victor Davis Hanson

  War, Believe, Gay

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• Zeroes are important. A million seconds ago was last week. A billion seconds ago, Richard Nixon resigned the presidency. A trillion seconds ago was 30,000 BC, and early humans were using stone tools.

  Denis Hayes

  Important, Tools, Stones

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• That is the kind of America in which I believe. And it represents the kind of Presidency in which I believe - a great office that must neither be humbled by making it the instrument of any one religious group nor tarnished by arbitrarily withholding its occupancy from the members of any one religious group. I believe in a President whose religious views are his own private affair, neither imposed by him upon the Nation or imposed by the Nation upon him as a condition to holding that office.

  John F. Kennedy

  Religious, Believe, Views

  Speech at Greater Houston Ministerial Association, Rice Hotel, Houston, Texas, www.presidency.ucsb.edu. September 12, 1960.

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• Individual liberty is individual power.

  John Quincy Adams

  Liberty, Individual Power, Individual

  John Quincy Adams (1965). “John Quincy Adams and American continental empire: letters, papers and speeches”, Chicago, Quadrangle Books

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• I did though at least expect him to correct the false statements he made when he was trying to protect the Presidency. Instead, he talked about it as though I had laid it all out there for the taking. I was the buffet and he just couldn't resist the dessert.

  Monica Lewinsky

  Trying, Buffets, Dessert

  "The Month of Elul as Opportunity: Monica, Eve, and Repentance" by Levi Ben-Shmuel, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 1, 2010.

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• A past President, bullied and sandbagged by a monkey posing as a newscaster, finally lashed back....The nation's marketplace of ideas is being poisoned by a propaganda company so blatant that Tokyo Rose would've quit....As with all the other nefariousness and slime of this, our worst presidency since James Buchanan, he [President Bush] is having it done for him, by proxy. Thus, the sandbag effort by Fox News Friday afternoon.

  Keith Olbermann

  Friday, Past, Ideas

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• The Presidency is not a bed of roses.

  James K. Polk

  Bed Of Roses, Rose, Bed

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