Presidency Quotes - Page 22

• Beguiled by George S. Bush's easy smile and casual indifference to the details, we are on the brink of electing him to office. This isn't choosing a president, it's casting the lead in a sitcom about the presidency.

  Roger Ebert

  Office, President, Politics

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• I think the difference the Jimmy Carter presidency and the Obama regime is navet and maliciousness. I think this is purposeful maliciousness. That's why what you're seeing now in this administration. I don't think they care for this country. And I think they're trying to make it into some kind of third-world socialistic cesspool. I think they are willing to get in bed with any dictator or despotic ruler that they see.

  Allen West

  Country, Thinking, Differences

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• My dear citizens, fellow citizens, French people, this 6th of May, have just chosen change by bringing me the presidency of the French republic. I feel the honor, which has been given to me and the task, the important task faced beyond - in front of you to serve my country.

  Francois Hollande

  Country, People, Honor

  "Your Money", www.cnn.com. May 6, 2012.

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• As a president I will be like the candidate that I am, a respectful candidate, a rallying candidate, a normal candidate for a normal presidency, at the service of the Republic.

  Francois Hollande

  President, Republic, Normal

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• The presidency is probably the loneliest office in America. Regardless of your friends, regardless of how good your marriage is, regardless of anything, you are alone there at the top.

  Robert Reich

  America, Office

  "American Experience", www.pbs.org.

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• I think it might be better to have the President sort of like the King of England - or the Queen - and have the real business of the presidency conducted by ... a city manager-type, a Prime Minister, somebody who's directly answerable to Congress, rather than a person who moves all his friends into the White House and does whatever he wants for four years.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Queens, Kings, Real

  Source: www.rollingstone.com

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• We need to do more than win an election or win the House or win the presidency, my friends: we need to make this beloved country of ours God's country once again.

  Pat Buchanan

  Country, Winning, House

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• I never wanted to get out of a place as much as I did to get out of the presidency.

  Ulysses S. Grant

  Wanted

  "Around the World with General Grant". Book by John Russell Young. Volume 2, 1879.

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• Every president has to live with the result of what Lyndon Johnson did with Vietnam, when he lost the trust of the American people in the presidency.

  Robert Caro

  People, President, Vietnam

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  If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.

  John Quincy Adams

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Obama entered the presidency trailing clouds of intellectual self-regard. His carefully cultivated persona was of a uniquely thoughtful, judicious, deliberative, evidence-driven man comfortable with complexity. The protracted consideration of Keystone supposedly displayed these virtues. Now, however, it is clear that his mind has always been as closed as an unshucked oyster.

  George Will

  Thoughtful, Men, Clouds

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• Mitt Romney is predicting that as president, he will create 12 million jobs in his first term. Well, President Obama says a Romney presidency would result in lost jobs. Yeah, his and Biden's.

  Jay Leno

  Jobs, President, Biden

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• I really want Congress to do its job, the constitutional power that they have, to halt an imperial presidency, to halt this fundamental transformation of America that is making us an unrecognizable mess of a nation at this time.

  Sarah Palin

  Jobs, America, Fundamentals

  "Palin Calls For Obama's Impeachment: 'Halt An Imperial Presidency'" by Ian Schwartz, www.realclearpolitics.com. July 08, 2014.

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• The Vice Presidency isn't worth a pitcher of warm spit.

  John Nance Garner

  Vices, Spit, Pitcher

  In O. C. Fisher 'Cactus Jack' (1978) ch. 11

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• Sarah Palin lacked the preparation or temperament to be one heartbeat away from the presidency, but what she possessed in abundance was the ability to inflame political passions and energize the John McCain campaign with star quality.

  Roger Ebert

  Stars, Passion, Political

  Roger Ebert (2012). “Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2013: 25th Anniversary Edition”, p.192, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• The presidency has many problems, but boredom is the least of them.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Blessing, Boredom, Problem

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• I thought it completely absurd to mention my name in the same breath as the presidency.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Names, Absurd, Breaths

  Dwight D. Eisenhower, Dwight David Eisenhower (1963). “The white house years: mandate for change 1953-1956”

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• I still believe the Lewinsky investigation was way off from the focus of what Whitewater was, which turned out to be nothing at the end of the process. And I think that there were people who were determined as political opponents to not allow his presidency to succeed.

  Rahm Emanuel

  Believe, Thinking, People

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• I think George W. Bush has a warm, engaging personality. But, you know, the presidency is more than just a popularity contest.

  Al Gore

  Thinking, Personality, Popularity

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• If the Soviet empire still existed, I'd be terrified. The fact is, we can afford a fairly ignorant presidency now.

  Newt Gingrich

  Political, Ignorant, Empires

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• Sixty-five months into Bush's presidency, conservatives feel betrayed The main cause of conservatives' anger with Bush is this: He talked like a conservative to win our votes but never governed like a conservative.

  Richard Viguerie

  Winning, Betrayed, Months

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• It is my fondest wish that in the fullness of time, the American people will look back on the Franken presidency as something of a mixed bag and not as a complete disaster.

  Al Franken

  People, Wish, Bags

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• One of the things that you come pretty early on to understand in this job, and you start figuring out even during the course of the campaign, is that there's Barack Obama the person and there's Barack Obama the symbol, or the office holder, or what people are seeing on television, or just a representative of power. And so when people criticize or respond negatively to me, usually they're responding to this character that they're seeing on TV called Barack Obama, or to the office of the presidency and the White House and what that represents.

  Barack Obama

  Jobs, Character, White

  Source: www.theatlantic.com

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• You don't run for the presidency out of nostalgia.

  George McGovern

  Running, Nostalgia

  "The Democrats On The Issues: Military Budgets And Women As Running Mates; Excerpts From Transcript Of Democratic Candidates' Debate". Democratic Candidates' Debate, www.nytimes.com. January 16, 1984.

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• My hope is that that person will come forward that can win the presidency that we can all get behind.

  Rick Perry

  Winning, Behinds, Persons

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