Presidency Quotes - Page 15

• The presidency is not an entry-level electoral job.

  John Podhoretz

  Jobs, Levels, Entry

  "Stopping Hillary". Interview with Kathryn Lopez, www.nationalreview.com. May 9, 2006.

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• That distinctive presidential conduct is now gone forever, banished to the snows of yesteryear by Barack Obama. From the beginning of his presidency to the present, he has spoken specifically and in unprecedented fashion of Republicans as his rivals, his stumbling blocks, the primary cause of his troubles.

  John Podhoretz

  Fashion, Block, Snow

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• I will begin my presidency with a jobs tour. President Obama began with an apology tour. America, he said, had dictated to other nations. No Mr. President, America has freed other nations from dictators.

  Mitt Romney

  Jobs, Apology, America

  Republican Party Presidential Nomination Acceptance, delivered 30 August 2012, Tampa, Florida

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• The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Leadership, Bullying

  First Inaugural Address, 4 Mar. 1933 See Francis Bacon 7; Montaigne 4; Thoreau 16; Wellington 3

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• In his first 100 days, Mr. Obama has put the fate of his presidency in the hands of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. He may come to regret that decision.

  Karl Rove

  Regret, Fate, Hands

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• Millions of young Americans have graduated from college during the Obama presidency, ready to use their gifts and get moving in life. Half of them can't find the work they studied for, or any work at all. So here's the question: Without a change in leadership, why would the next four years be any different from the last four years?

  Paul Ryan

  Leadership, Moving, College

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

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• President Obama is the kind of politician who puts promises on the record, and then calls that the record. But we are four years into this presidency. The issue is not the economy as Barack Obama inherited it, not the economy as he envisions it, but this economy as we are living it.

  Paul Ryan

  Years, Issues, Promise

  Paul Ryan's Speech at the Republican National Convention in Tampa, Florida,, www.npr.org. August 29, 2012.

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• We have a president who stole the presidency through family ties, arrogance and intimidation, employing Republican operatives to exercise the tactics of voter fraud by disenfranchising thousands of blacks, elderly Jews and other minorities.

  Barbra Streisand

  Exercise, Hype, Ties

  Barbra Streisand's Letter to Democrats, www.foxnews.com. April 2, 2001.

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• By disgracing and degrading the presidency of the United States, by fleeing the White House like a diseased cur, Richard Nixon broke the heart of the American Dream.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Dream, Heart, White

  Hunter S. Thompson, Jann Wenner (2012). “Fear and Loathing at Rolling Stone: The Essential Writing of Hunter S. Thompson”, p.432, Simon and Schuster

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• The Vice-Presidency is sort of like the last cookie on the plate. Everybody insists he won't take it, but somebody always does.

  Bill Vaughan

  Political, Vices, Doe

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• In my lifetime, Mitt Romney is the most qualified leader I've ever seen run for the presidency of the United States.

  Jack Welch

  Running, Leader, United States

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• We all obviously need others to look up to, and be inspirational to us. Ford did a great job as far as putting the presidency back where it belonged, getting the trust back after Nixon. And President Reagan has been one of the most influential presidents.

  Steve Garvey

  Jobs, President, Needs

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• Few men in our history have ever obtained the Presidency by planning to obtain it.

  James A. Garfield

  Men, Planning

  Diary entry, February 04, 1879.

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• Certainly there are worse sins than doing everything possible to make your presidency matter.

  Eric Alterman

  Matter, Sin

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• I acknowledged that I owed my presidency to People Power. I resolved during my presidency that I would in turn empower the people.

  Corazon Aquino

  People, Empowering, Turns

  "Sunday Interview -- Corazon Aquino/ The former president of the Philippines reflects on losing a husband to the cause they believed in, the revolution that later swept her to power and the difficulties of ruling in a democracy". Interview With Benjamin Pimentel, www.sfgate.com. February 18, 1996.

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• When you are running for the presidency of the United States, you have to expect that you are going to have attacks by all sides.

  Michele Bachmann

  Running, United States, Sides

  "Michele Bachmann Responds to Mainstream Media Hostility". "Hannity" with Sean Hannity, www.foxnews.com. July 12, 2011.

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• I want my candidacy for the presidency of the United States to stand for a moment when we the people stand once again for the independence from a government that has gotten too big and spends too much and has taken away too much of our liberties.

  Michele Bachmann

  Taken, Government, People

  "Bachmann: Obama 'Threatened' By My Candidacy". "Hannity" with Sean Hannity, www.foxnews.com. June 27, 2011.

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• There has been so much power concentrated. There is no leash on that power anymore and Americans face the situation that this power is getting momentum with each passing year with each presidency.

  James Bovard

  Years, Faces, Momentum

  "An Interview with James Bovard". "Talkin' to America" with Aaron Zelman, jpfo.org. January 25, 2006.

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• As to the presidency, the two happiest days of my life were those of my entrance upon the office and my surrender of it.

  Martin Van Buren

  Two, Office, Presidential

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• And who knows? Somewhere out in this audience may even be someone who will one day follow in my footsteps, and preside over the White House as the President's spouse. I wish him well!

  Barbara Bush

  Inspirational, Women, White

  Barbara Bush's Commencement Address at the Wellesley College in Wellesley, Massachusetts, www.wellesley.edu. June 1, 1990.

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• I just didn't want to get out there anymore; I didn't want to get back into what I call 'the swamp.' And the other reason why is I don't think it's good for the presidency for a former president to be opining about his successor. President Obama's got plenty of critics - and I'm just not gonna be one.

  George W. Bush

  Thinking, President, Swamps

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• So, for example, a country was into recession right after I was sworn in, a dot-com bust had taken place. Then the attacks of September the 11th, and then of course the great financial meltdown in the - the fundamental question facing any presidency is how do you deal with the hand you’re dealt?

  George W. Bush

  Country, Taken, Hands

  "My Interview with George W. Bush". Interview with Kudlow Report, www.nationalreview.com. November 23, 2010.

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• In the scheme of our national government, the presidency is preeminently the people's office.

  Grover Cleveland

  Government, Office, People

  Grover Cleveland (1904). “Presidential Problems”

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• There's always been that theory that if a candidate can't run a decent campaign, he probably can't run a decent presidency. That might be true, although sadly I must admit that running a brilliant campaign does not translate into running a brilliant White House.

  Gail Collins

  Running, White, House

  "No Longer Debatable — Campaigns Matter". Interview with David Brooks, opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com. October 3, 2012.

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• No feature of the Obama presidency has been sadder than its constant efforts to divide us, to curry favor with some Americans by castigating others.

  Mitch Daniels

  Effort, Favors, Curry

  "Transcript: Daniels gives GOP response to State of the Union". www.cnn.com. January 24, 2012.

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