Presidency Quotes - Page 14

• Another Clinton presidency would be a death blow to the American Dream.

  Marco Rubio

  Dream, Blow, Would Be

  Marco Rubio (2015). “American Dreams: Restoring Economic Opportunity for Everyone”, p.10, Penguin

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• I think history is continuous. It doesn't begin or end on Pearl Harbor Day or the day Lyndon Johnson withdraws from the presidency or on 9/11. You have to learn from the past but not be imprisoned by it. You need to take counsel of history but never be imprisoned by it.

  Richard Holbrooke

  Thinking, Past, Needs

  "Office of the Historian Hosts Conference on the American Experience in Southeast Asia". 2009-2017.state.gov. September 29, 2010.

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• It is not patriotic to decide to destroy a new president who was duly elected by an overwhelming margin. It is un-patriotic to resolve to destroy that presidency.

  Russ Feingold

  Patriotic, President, Resolve

  "A Senator Without Constituents". Interview with Mark Byrne, www.gq.com. February 20, 2012.

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• One day we will look back and realize that the Barack Obama Presidency was the biggest fraud ever perpetrated on the American people.

  Clint Eastwood

  People, One Day, Looks

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• Excellence does not begin in Washington.

  Ronald Reagan

  Excellence, Doe

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• The job is nothing but a twenty-ring circus-with a whole lot of bad actors.

  Herbert Hoover

  Jobs, Actors, Circus

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• Presidents generally do what they are good at in their first four years, then spend their second term responding to the agendas imposed upon them by events.

  Dick Morris

  Years, President, Agendas

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• If the President does it, it can't be illegal.

  Richard M. Nixon

  President, Doe, Illegal

  "Memo to Sunday Talkers: Please Get the Answers the American People Cannot" by Rep. John Conyers, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 7, 2006.

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• I expect it is very possible that I would make as good a President as a great many men who are talked of for that position.

  Warren G. Harding

  Men, President, Position

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• The moment somebody's a president and you call him "Mr. President," (the person represents) our culture, our history, our sense as our nation.

  Rahm Emanuel

  President, Culture, Moments

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• When I leave the office on January 20th, I will leave even more idealistic than I was the day I took the oath of office.

  William J. Clinton

  Oath Of Office, January, Idealistic

  Clinton, William J. (2000). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 2000-2001”, p.2632, Best Books on

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• My proudest accomplishment was that I never dropped a bomb, fired a bullet, or shot a missile.

  Jimmy Carter

  Accomplishment, Bombs, Bullets

  Former President Jimmy Carter address to the students and community members at the Lady Bird Johnson Auditorium, February 16, 2011.

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• Not a chance. I don't know what Sarah (Palen)'s doing, (but) I have no desire to be president of the United States, zero desire. I don't think that I would be electable.

  Glenn Beck

  Zero, Thinking, Desire

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• The presidential news conference is indispensable because it is the only forum in our society where you can be questioned on a regular basis and held accountable.

  Helen Thomas

  Presidential, News, Our Society

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• This nation is daring and decent and ready for change.

  George W. Bush

  Daring, Ready For Change, Decent

  George W. Bush's acceptance speech at the Republican National Convention in Philadelphia, abcnews.go.com. August 3, 2000.

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• Being President is like the man who was tarred and feathered and ridden out of town on a rail... A man in the crowd asked how he liked it, and his reply was that if it wasn't for the honor of the thing, he would much rather walk.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Men, Honor, President

  Martin D. Tullai, Abraham Lincoln (1998). “Speaking of Abraham Lincoln”

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• Thomas Jefferson made a comment about the Presidency and age. He said that one should not worry about one's exact chronological age in reference to his ability to perform one's task. And ever since he told me that, I stopped worrying.

  Ronald Reagan

  Worry, Age, Tasks

  Reagan, Ronald (1982). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Ronald Reagan, 1981”, p.77, Best Books on

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• There is far less to the Presidency, in terms of essential activity, than meets the eye.

  Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

  Eye, Essentials, Term

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• As with almost every significant aspect of the Bush presidency, its handling of 9/11 was a catastrophe from start to finish.

  Eric Alterman

  Significant, Aspect, Catastrophe

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• The presidency is more than a popularity contest.

  Al Gore

  Popularity, Contests, Popularity Contest

  "Gore accepts Democratic nomination 'as my own man'" by Mike Ferullo, www.cnn.com. August 18, 2000.

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• About the time we can make the ends meet, somebody moves the ends.

  Herbert Hoover

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

  "The Big Book of Presidents: From George Washington to Barack Obama". Book by Nancy J. Hajeski, 2015.

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• Be polite to all, but intimate with few.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Cynicism, Intimate, Polite

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• No man will ever carry out of the Presidency the reputation which carried him into it.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Men, Political, Politics

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• When the burdens of the presidency seem unusually heavy, I always remind myself it could be worse. I could be a mayor.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Burden, Mayors, Heavy

  Johnson, Lyndon B. (1967). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1966”, p.373, Best Books on

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• As soon as I moved to Princeton in 1978, I became fascinated by local history, much of it Revolutionary War-era; and I became fascinated by the presidency of Woodrow Wilson at Princeton University.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  War, Princeton University, Eras

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