Presidency Quotes - Page 20

• I couldn't wait to start the day.

  Gerald R. Ford

  Waiting, Start The Day

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• Reagan was an exceedingly likeable guy, just a heck of a nice fellow, despite his politics. He was funny and loved a good joke, the dirtier, I'm afraid the more ethnic, the better. I don't think he brought very much to the presidency, except charisma and success.

  Walter Cronkite

  Nice, Thinking, Guy

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• If you have not chosen me by secret ballot, neither have I gained office by any secret promises. I have not campaigned either for the Presidency or the Vice Presidency. I have not subscribed to any partisan platform. I am indebted to no man, and only to one womanmy dear wifeas I begin this very difficult job.

  Gerald R. Ford

  Jobs, Men, Office

  Address Upon Taking the Oath of the U.S. Presidency, delivered 9 August 1974 East Room of the White House, Washington, D.C.

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• It was my intent all along to write a nonjudgmental narrative of Bush's presidency. Along the way, a number of liberal friends of mine expressed disgust that I would spend time on such an endeavor.

  Robert Draper

  Writing, Numbers, Narrative

  "Books: 'Dead Certain: The Presidency of George W. Bush'". Live chat, www.washingtonpost.com. September 11, 2007.

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• I think the most important thing is to take the long view on things. We live in such a 24/7, Twitter-fed, constant news cycle, and everything's a crisis, everything is terrible, everything is doomsday, everything is - if it doesn't get solved tomorrow, your presidency is going off the rails.

  Barack Obama

  Thinking, Views, Long

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• All Presidents start out to run a crusade but after a couple of years they find they are running something less heroic and much more intractable: namely the presidency. The people are well cured by then of election fever, during which they think they are choosing Moses. In the third year, they look on the man as a sinner and a bumble and begin to poke around for rumors of another Messiah.

  Alistair Cooke

  Running, Couple, Men

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• Prayer steadies one when he is walking in slippery places - even if things asked for are not given.

  Benjamin Harrison

  Prayer, Given, Walking

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• The founding fathers gave the House of Representatives one function when it comes to cleansing the office of the presidency and that is impeachment, .. Whether or not a resolution of censure is appropriate is something beyond our constitutional authority.

  Henry Hyde

  Father, Office, House

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• Anybody who is an ambitious politician would never ever aspire to a Vice Presidency. And yet, people find themselves in that position, and so, therein lies the rub.

  Julia Louis-Dreyfus

  Lying, People, Ambitious

  "EMMYS: Julia Louis-Dreyfus On 'Veep'". Interview with Pete Hammond, deadline.com. June 17, 2012.

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• You win the presidency by connecting with the American people's gut insecurities and aspirations. You win with a concept.

  Thomas Friedman

  Winning, People, Insecurity

  "Read My Lips". "New York Times", June 11, 2002.

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• While I'm critical to the Bush presidency, it's been enormously beneficial for Salon because we're seen as kind of an aggressive watchdog on the Bush White House. Particularly since Florida, our readership hit a whole new level, and we held onto those readers.

  David Talbot

  White, Florida, House

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• I would rather starve and rot and keep the privilege of speaking the truth as I see it, than of holding all the offices that capital has to give from the presidency down.

  Henry Adams

  Government, Giving, Office

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• I could think of no worse example for nations abroad, who for the first time were trying to put free electoral procedures into effect, than that of the United States wrangling over the results of our presidential election, and even suggesting that the presidency itself could be stolen by thievery at the ballot box.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Thinking, America, Presidential

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• The four most miserable years of my life were my four years in the presidency.

  John Quincy Adams

  Years, Four, Miserable

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• A Clinton presidency is an Obama third term. And it's very difficult for them to get away from it.

  Paul Ryan

  Clinton, Difficult, Get Away

  "Paul Ryan: 'We Were Right'" by Brett LoGiurato, www.businessinsider.com. August 25, 2014.

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• Few progressives would take issue with the argument that, significant accomplishments notwithstanding, the Obama presidency has been a big disappointment.

  Eric Alterman

  Disappointment, Issues, Accomplishment

  Eric Alterman (2011). “Kabuki Democracy: The System Vs. Barack Obama”, p.1, Nation Books

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• Running for the presidency's not an IQ test.

  Rick Perry

  Running, Tests

  "Rick Perry: Presidency is ‘not an IQ test’" By Kasie Hunt, www.msnbc.com. December 11, 2014.

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• George W. Bush did an incredible job in the presidency, defending us from freedom.

  Rick Perry

  Jobs, Incredibles

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• Trump says that if he's elected, he won't let the presidency interfere with the Miss Universe pageant.

  David Letterman

  Missing, Pageant, Trump

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• Boris Nemtsov and I began to argue after Putin's return to the presidency in 2012. In my opinion, there was no longer a realistic chance to achieve regime change through peaceful political means, or real elections. Boris, on the other hand, never lost this hope. He felt that my assessment was premature and said: "You have to live a long time to see changes in Russia." He was deprived of that opportunity.

  Garry Kasparov

  Real, Mean, Opportunity

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I think the tragedy of Barack Obama's presidency is that although a lot of people around the world really admire Barack Obama a lot, they don't admire the American political and economic model as much as they used to.

  Peter Beinart

  Thinking, Economic Models, People

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I will seek the presidency with nothing to fall back on but the judgment of the people, and nowhere to go but the White House or home.

  Bob Dole

  Fall, Home, White

  "Dole Quits Senate To Campaign Full Time". www.cnn.com. May 15, 1996.

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• In the past, the U.S. has shown its capacity to reinvent its gifts for leadership. During the 1970s, in the aftermath of the Nixon abdication and the Ford and Carter presidencies, the whole nation peered into the abyss, was horrified by what it saw and elected Ronald Reagan as president, which began a national resurgence.

  Paul Johnson

  Past, President, Aftermath

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• The general consensus among historians, among the ones who can handle the fact that 'Lincoln' is, in fact, historical fiction, is that we demonstrate enormous fidelity to history and that, beyond that, we've actually contributed a line of thinking about Lincoln's presidency that's somewhat original.

  Tony Kushner

  Thinking, Historical, Fiction

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• Congratulations to Obama! He's now increased the debt more in three years than George W. Bush did his entire eight year presidency. But all that spending was worth it because just look at the great results! So what exactly is the argument that Obama isn't a hugely incompetent failure? So far it's 'Look! Over there! A war on women!'

  Frank J. Fleming

  Congratulations, War, Exactly Is

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