Presidency Quotes - Page 5

• Throughout Ronnie's presidency, there was an ongoing public discussion as to how much influence the first lady should have on the president. It's hardly a new problem. As long as mankind has lived in groups, there's always been a question of how to handle the boss's wife.

  Nancy Reagan

  Should Have, Long, Wife

  Nancy Reagan (2011). “My Turn: The Memoirs of Nancy Reagan”, p.75, Random House

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• After 9/11, I told the American people I would do everything in my power to protect the country, within the law, and that's exactly how I conduct my presidency.

  George W. Bush

  Country, Law, People

  "Countdown" with Keith Olbermann, www.nbcnews.com. December 16, 2005.

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• During the course of my presidency, it feels as if a couple times a year, I end up having to speak to the country and to speak to a particular community about a devastating loss. The grieving that the country feels is real, the sympathy, the prioritizing, the comforting of the families, all that’s important. But I think part of the point that I wanted to make was that it’s not enough just to feel bad.

  Barack Obama

  Country, Couple, Real

  "Yep, Obama Said the N-Word. Here Are the Other Candid Things He Said" by Inae Oh, www.motherjones.com. June 22, 2015.

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• Ronald Reagan rebuilt the American presidency; it was in trouble when he came into office as an institution, and he did through his communications and through his own inspiration, and his principles. I think he did lift our spirits about, and convince us that once again that the future of the best, our best days were always ahead of us.

  David Gergen

  Communication, Inspiration, Thinking

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• I don't think that the United States are ready for a presidency as the one of Obama, at least because he would be the first black president.

  Gianfranco Fini

  Thinking, Black, President

  Interview with Gianni Riotta, RaiUno channel, March 07, 2008.

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• My conscience does not permit me to run for the presidency or any other official position unless it is within a democratic framework.

  Mohamed ElBaradei

  Running, Doe, Permit

  "Mohamed ElBaradei quits Egyptian presidential race" by Peter Beaumont, www.theguardian.com. January 24, 2012.

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• There are important arguments to be made about the relative merits of an hereditary or an elected head of state: but not at the level of the human frailties of particular monarchs or presidents. No one seriously contends that the American presidency should be abolished because Bill Clinton is a self-confessed adulterer. So why should the abolition of the British monarchy be contemplated because the same is true of Prince Charles?

  David Cannadine

  Self, Important, President

  David Cannadine (1998). “History in Our Time”, Penguin Group USA

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• I read the book with interest, but when Jackson was a candidate in 1828 for the Presidency, I opposed him and voted for Adams. I favored a protective tariff.

  Ezra Cornell

  Book, Tariffs, Economy

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• THURSDAY, APRIL 5, 1894... I met with the Quorum and Presidency in the temple... President Woodruff then spoke... 'In searching out my genealogy I found about four hundred of my female kindred who were never married. I asked Pres. Young what I should do with them. He said for me to have them sealed to me unless there were more than 999 of them. The doctrine startled me, but I had it done.

  Abraham H. Cannon

  President, Done, Four

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• There's a cancer on the presidency.

  John Dean

  Cancer

  "The Hearings End Much as They Began" by David Maraniss, www.washingtonpost.com. June 19, 1996.

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• There was a feeling during the years of George W. Bushs presidency that his gracelessness as well as his appetite for war were linked to his impatience with complexity. He acted from the gut, and was economical with the truth until it disappeared.

  Teju Cole

  War, Years, Feelings

  Teju Cole (2016). “Known and Strange Things”, p.180, Faber & Faber

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• I have come to the conclusion that the 22nd Amendment [limiting the presidency to two terms] was a mistake. Shouldn't the people have the right to vote for someone as many times as they want to vote for him?

  Ronald Reagan

  Mistake, Two, Government

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• I think the presidency is an institution over which you have temporary custody.

  Ronald Reagan

  Thinking, Government, Custody

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• I mean, obviously, one of the strongest arguments against evolution and selection of the fittest and progress, which is part of evolution, is the current field of the presidential candidates. We started off with Washington and Adams and Jefferson and then we had Lincoln, and now we moved ahead and look where we are now.

  William Kristol

  Mean, Presidential, Progress

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• Of one thing the executive may be sure: that the majority want more of the good things of life, and if they can get them without undue personal effort, so much the better. So the executive naturally tends to promise material gain, contingent of course on his remaining in power. The impetus to personal rule is obvious.

  Felix Morley

  Effort, Promise, Majority

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• The presidency is not merely an administrative office...It is pre-eminently a place of moral leadership.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Moral Leadership, Office, Administrative

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• We don't think well of our presidents when they are serving. Even Kennedy, with such a short presidency, was beginning to lose his remarkable appeal to the American people when he was suddenly sainted by death.

  Charlton Heston

  Thinking, People, President

  Interview with Bill Kauffman, reason.com. April 1, 1987.

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• Marco [Rubio] is a gifted politician. He is incredibly gifted. And he needs to be able to do his job. He's going to be a great candidate [for presidency], for sure. But I think - he's a United States senator. He ought to show up.

  Jeb Bush

  Jobs, Thinking, Needs

  "RNC chair blasts CNBC's 'crap sandwich' debate; Bush, Kasich call out GOP rivals". "Hannity" with Sean Hannity, www.foxnews.com. October 29, 2015.

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• There are two amendments only which I am anxious for: 1. A bill of rights, which it is so much the interest of all to have that I conceive it must be yielded...2. The restoring of the principle of necessary rotation, particularly to the Senate and Presidency, but most of all to the last.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Rights, Two, Principles

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• I believe only foreigners should run for president...Face it, the presidency is a lousy job. And who does lousy jobs we don't want anymore better than foreigners?

  Bill Maher

  Running, Jobs, Believe

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• A Romney presidency will be awesome unless you're poor, sick, gay, female, Mexican or a dog.

  Andy Borowitz

  Dog, Gay, Sick

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• As prime minister, I worked closely with Ronald Reagan for eight of the most important years of all our lives. We talked regularly both before and after his presidency. And I have had time and cause to reflect on what made him a great president.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Eight, Years, Important

  Remarks on the Passing of Ronald Reagan, tape delivered on 11 June 2004

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• Will this long presidency of George W. Bush ever be over? Living through it is starting to seem like some ghastly, upsetting novel in which the hero is the country, and the president is this disturbing, pig-headed, oblivious villain who makes things worse and worse and worse.

  Christopher Durang

  Country, Hero, Pigs

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• The mythology of the Reagan presidency is that he induced the collapse of the Soviet Union by luring it into unsustainable military spending and wars: should there come a point when we think about applying that lesson to ourselves?

  Glenn Greenwald

  Military, War, Thinking

  "Washington gets explicit: its 'war on terror' is permanent". www.theguardian.com. May 17, 2013.

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• The second term of the Bush administration and first five years of the Obama presidency have been devoted to codifying and institutionalizing the vast and unchecked powers that are typically vested in leaders in the name of war. Those powers of secrecy, indefinite detention, mass surveillance, and due-process-free assassination are not going anywhere. They are now permanent fixtures not only in the US political system but, worse, in American political culture.

  Glenn Greenwald

  War, Years, Names

  "Washington gets explicit: its 'war on terror' is permanent". www.theguardian.com. May 17, 2013.

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