Presidency Quotes - Page 4

• I'm forever a former president and I understand that, but at this point in my post-presidency, I don't want to be involved with politics.

  George W. Bush

  Forever, President, Want

  Source: www.texasmonthly.com

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• I think a Donald Trump presidency sets up an Elizabeth Warren ascendancy. And it not Elizabeth Warren, someone of her ilk. And I think that's dreadful.

  Bret Stephens

  Thinking, Trump, Ascendancy

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• When it comes to crime, the violent crime rate in America has been lowered during my presidency and any time in the last three, four decades.

  Barack Obama

  America, Three, Four

  "Obama reacts to Trump's GOP convention speech: CNN vets the claims". edition.cnn.com. July 25, 2016.

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• I realized that in all the sectors of society where there's a huge gender disparity, the one place that can be fixed overnight is onscreen. You think about getting half of Congress, or the presidency ... It's going to take a while no matter how hard we work on it. But half of the board members and half of the CEOs can be women in the next movie somebody makes; it can be absolutely half.

  Geena Davis

  Thinking, Boards, Half

  Interview with Emma Watson, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 25, 2016.

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• Hillary Clinton should never have been allowed to run for the presidency based on what she did with e-mails and so many other things.

  Donald Trump

  Running, Mail, Clinton

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• I feel like Bush presidencies are like "Godfather" films. You should stop at two.

  David Letterman

  Two, Film, Should

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• The presidency is the most visible thread that runs through the tapestry of the American government. More often than not, for good or for ill, it sets the tone for the other branches and spurs the expectations of the people.

  Mike Pence

  Running, Government, People

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Obama was elected in a flourish of promise that many in the African-American community believed would help not only to symbolize African-American progress since the Civil War and Civil Rights Acts but that his presidency would result in doors opening in the halls of power as had never been seen before by black America.

  Douglas Wilder

  War, Rights, Doors

  "Obama or Clinton better for blacks?" by Douglas Wilder, www.politico.com. December 12, 2011.

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• Don't any of you realize there's only one life between that madman and the Presidency?

  Mark Hanna

  Government, Realizing, Madmen

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• Jimmy Carter, who embraced all manner of schemes to make America a second or third-rate country, came down so squarely in favor of the double nickel [the 55 mph National Speed Limit]...This is the same Jimmy Carter whose limosine with him in it, just a little later in his presidency, was timed at an average of 72 mph for the 21.5 mile trip from Detroit Metro to the Detroit Plaza Hotel. He didn't want to be late for a campaign appearance.

  Patrick Bedard

  Country, America, Mph

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• Barack Obamas official nomination as the Democratic Partys standard-bearer was a very poignant moment for millions of Americans. As the first non-white major party nominee, Obama is carrying a big load on his shoulders. Hes holding the hopes and dreams of a lot of folks who thought the presidency was only reserved for white men.

  Chuck Todd

  Dream, Party, Men

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• In 2004, I joined my father, John Kerry, on the trail in his bid for the United States presidency.

  Alexandra Kerry

  Father, United States, Trails

  Alexandra Kerry (2008). “Notes from the Trail: Presidential Politics from the Inside Out”, p.8, Rodale

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• The First Month of the Buhari Presidency has been far, far from inspiring

  Okey Ndibe

  Months, Firsts, Has Beens

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• To me, the Presidency and the Vice-Presidency were not prizes to be won, but a duty to be done.

  Gerald R. Ford

  Vices, Done, Duty

  Jimmy Carter, Gerald R. Ford (1979). “The Presidential Campaign 1976: President Gerald R. Ford. 2. v”

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• You have, at the same time, placed your confidence in me, and in my ability to render a free, fair judgment - to uphold the Constitution and my oath of office - and to reject any kind of religious pressure or obligation that might directly or indirectly interfere with my conduct of the Presidency in the national interest.

  John F. Kennedy

  Religious, Oath Of Office, Religion

  "To the New Frontier". www.cnn.com. July 25, 1960.

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• One of my strengths is I have a pretty even temperament. I don't get too high when it's high and I don't get too low when it's low. And what I found during the course of the presidency, and I suppose this is true in life, is that investments and work that you make back here sometimes take a little longer than the 24-hour news cycle to bear fruit.

  Barack Obama

  News, Littles, Fruit

  Interview with Jon Sopel on BBC, www.bbc.com. July 24, 2015.

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• There was never a promise that race relations in America would be entirely resolved during my presidency or anybody's presidency. I mean, this has been a running thread - and - and fault line in American life and American politics since its founding.

  Barack Obama

  Running, Mean, Race

  Interview with Jon Sopel on BBC, www.bbc.com. July 24, 2015.

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• God knows that any man who would seek the presidency of the United States is a fool for his pains. The burden is all but intolerable, and the things that I have to do are just as much as the human spirit can carry.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Pain, Men, United States

  Woodrow Wilson, Arthur Stanley Link, Woodrow Wilson Foundation, Princeton University (1979). “The papers of Woodrow Wilson”

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• Even here in America, we felt the cool, refreshing breeze of freedom when Nelson Mandela took the seat of Presidency in his country where formerly he was not even allowed to vote. We were enlarged by tears of pride as we saw Nelson Mandela's former prison guards invited, courteously, by him to watch from the front rows his inauguration.

  Maya Angelou

  Leadership, Wisdom, Country

  'His Day Is Done' - Poem in Tribute to Nelson Mandela, delivered December 2013

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• Some of the offers that have come to me would never have come if I had not been President. That means these people are trying to hire not Calvin Coolidge, but a former President of the United States. I can't make that kind of use of the office.... I can't do anything that might take away from the Presidency any of its dignity, or any of the faith people have in it.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Mean, Office, People

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• The consequences of President Johnsons campaign of deliberate deception regarding Vietnam could hardly have been more catastrophic for the nation, the military, the president, his party, and the presidency itself.

  Eric Alterman

  Military, Party, Deception

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• Islam never differentiates between men and women as regards political rights and puts them on an equal footing. However, even if a woman is qualified for leadership, when it comes to posts of authority such as presidency, Muslim scholars unanimously agree that it is impermissible for a woman to assume such a post because in this case she is in charge of her people's affairs.

  Yusuf al-Qaradawi

  Men, Rights, People

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• One undeniable accomplishment of Bill Clinton's presidency was that it kept Jimmy Carter from being the worst U.S. president in history.

  Thomas Sowell

  Accomplishment, President, Bills

  "Random Thoughts". www.jewishworldreview.com. August 15, 2002.

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• The U.S. came to understand that Bhutto was not a threat to stability but was instead the only possible way that we could guarantee stability and keep the presidency of Musharraf intact.

  Benazir Bhutto

  Guarantees, Bhutto, Way

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• Reagan is the only man to take the presidency as a part-time job, a means of filling up the otherwise empty hours of retirement.

  Simon Hoggart

  Retirement, Jobs, Mean

  "Sports Coverage? It's Not Cricket". www.theguardian.com. September 11, 2004.

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