Presidency Quotes - Page 8

• Normally what happens in a new presidency is the president has a big agenda, and Congress is full of people with human weaknesses. And so the president indulges the human weaknesses of members of Congress in order to pass his agenda. This time it's the other way around. Donald Trump does not have much of an agenda. Congress burns with this intense Republican agenda and so does Congress that has to put up with the human weaknesses of the president in order to get a signature on the things it desperately wants to pass.

  David Frum

  Order, People, President

  "David Frum: 'How Donald Trump Could Build An Autocracy In The U.S.'". "Morning Edition" with Steve Inskeep, www.npr.org. January 31, 2017.

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• We need people to fight back. So many people are depressed, and they've become preoccupied with the negatives of this [Donald Trump] presidency. That can cripple people mentally.

  Nina Turner

  Fighting, People, Needs

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• Nixon identified himself as a crisis-laden man. He'd reach levels of victory and then he'd plunge into defeat. He was vice president, then he lost to Kennedy, then he lost the California governorship. Then came a great comeback and then he blew it again - and the next comeback, after he lost the presidency. He was a man who needed the feeling of walking the precipice.

  Oliver Stone

  Men, California, Feelings

  Source: www.rogerebert.com

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• Donald Trump entered show business in his early 50s and becomes a celebrity for 15 years. He decides he wants to officially run for president and doesn't really know the inside politics business, and masters it, beats 15 opponents. Then he wins and defeats the Clinton machine... He's a very fast learner. He will figure out the presidency and governing very quickly.

  Christopher Ruddy

  Running, Winning, Years

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• The new [Donald Trump] administration may not want the benefit of [Dan Fried] expertise in terms of figuring out what Russia is up to with us right now but I do. I mean, we can all benefit from it as a country as we figure out what`s going on right now with this presidency and with Russia in particular.

  Rachel Maddow

  Country, Mean, Russia

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• I have never had to travel more than thirty seconds from home to office, and it's because of that that I've been able to maintain, really a family life that has nurtured and sustained me during this time [of presidency].

  Barack Obama

  Home, Office, Able

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• I, more than anything, obviously the presidency is the people, and it's been interesting the emotions in the last few months. What you realize is that you may never have the team that is together in the same way, under the same pressures, and the attachments that you make to folks from your chief of staff down to.

  Barack Obama

  Team, Attachment, Interesting

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• One of the gratifying things, I think, about the end of my presidency even though admittedly my successor ran against a lot of what we stood for, is when you look at the individual issues and the progress that we've made on a lot of those issues, we got the support of a pretty decent majority.

  Barack Obama

  Thinking, Issues, Support

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• Toughest decision was early in my presidency when I ordered 30,000 more troops into Afghanistan. As somebody who had run to end a large troop presence overseas.

  Barack Obama

  Running, Decision, Troops

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• I think I did in the sense that there's a whole generation coming up behind us that was engaged, inspired, worked for change during the course of my presidency, saw what was possible. And that generation, it's coming.

  Barack Obama

  Thinking, Generations, Saws

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• The next phase and this is part of what I'm interested in doing after I get out of the presidency is to make sure that I'm working with that next generation so that they understand you can't just rely on inspiration. There's a little perspiration involved in bringing about change too. That you have to be organized, that you have to vote even when it's not exciting.

  Barack Obama

  Inspiration, Littles, Next

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• I can document this past week [of presidency] we've put out memos from every agency showing what did we do. Try to be as honest as possible. There's a little hype involved obviously. It's spin because it's our agencies. We feel some pride about it. But tried to be self-critical as well.

  Barack Obama

  Pride, Past, Hype

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• I think that we are in a position to continue to make progress, but it's gonna require us to both recognize what the problems are, also recognize the progress we've made. Last point I'd make on this, since we're on criminal justice: During the course of my presidency crime has been the lowest it's been probably since the '60s.

  Barack Obama

  Thinking, Justice, Progress

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• During the course of my presidency crime has been the lowest it's been probably since the '60s. Butyou wouldn't know it if you were watching TV or looking at the internet, and you certainly wouldn't know it, listening to this past [Donald Trump's] campaign.

  Barack Obama

  Past, Listening, Tvs

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• In fact, it was stated early in the first Bush [presidency], Bush I, in one of their documents they pointed out in the future, US wars are going to be against much weaker enemies. And they have to be won quickly and decisively before a popular reaction develops. And Iif you take a look, that's what's done. Look at Panama, for instance, over a couple of days; and Kosovo, no American troops.

  Noam Chomsky

  Couple, War, Enemy

  Source: www.salon.com

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• [Barack] Obama was reaching a point [with Syria bombing] where he might not have been able to carry it off.He was losing support internally, and was compelled to send the vote to Congress, and it looked as if he was going to be defeated, which would have been a very serious blow to his presidency, to his authority.

  Noam Chomsky

  Blow, Support, Might

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• To say that the United States has pursued diplomacy with North Korea is a little bit misleading. It did under the Clinton administration, though neither side completely lived up to their obligations. Clinton didn't do what was promised, nor did North Korea, but they were making progress. So when Bush came into the presidency, North Korea had enough uranium or plutonium for maybe one or two bombs, but then very limited missile capacity. During the Bush years it's exploded. The reason is, he immediately canceled the diplomacy and he's pretty much blocked it ever since.

  Noam Chomsky

  Korea, Years, Two

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• I have great respect for the office of the presidency and I really do believe that Donald Trump wants to do a good job.

  Gayle King

  Jobs, Believe, Office

  Source: wwd.com

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• I think we're in store for a presidency [of Donald Trump] even more unlike any that people have been imagining. I think it's gonna be tough to predict this and to analyze it, certainly in contemporary, traditional terms.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Thinking, People, Tough

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• Donald Trump may undermine some of the traditional checks on the presidency: the press in particular, but also the various government and Congressional ethics bodies, as well as the career civil service.

  Anne Applebaum

  Careers, Government, Body

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Being out of the mainstream is entirely consistent with the way Donald Trump is approaching his presidency.

  Tom Gjelten

  Way, Mainstream, Trump

  "With His Choice Of Inauguration Prayer Leaders, Trump Shows His Values". "Morning Edition" with Richel Martin, www.npr.org. January 13, 2017.

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• This is our moment of reckoning as a society and as a civilization itself. I didn't need to do this [run for presidency], folks, believe me — believe me. I built a great company and I had a wonderful life. I could have enjoyed the fruits and benefits of years of successful business deals and businesses for myself and my family. Instead of going through this absolute horror show of lies, deceptions, malicious attacks — who would have thought? I'm doing it because this country has given me so much, and I feel so strongly that it's my turn to give back to the country that I love.

  Donald Trump

  Running, Country, Lying

  Donald Trump's Speech Responding To Assault Accusations, www.npr.org. October 13, 2016.

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• I ran [for presidency] because I knew what trouble our country was in.

  Donald Trump

  Country, Trouble, Ran

  Source: time.com

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• I didn't need to [run for presidency], but it's about you. It's about bringing our country, making our country great again.

  Donald Trump

  Running, Country, Needs

  Source: time.com

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• If you go back and you look at the presidency over the course of history, presidents tend to do what they campaigned on. In the 20th century, presidents between Woodrow Wilson and Jimmy Carter accomplished 73 percent of the things that they said they would do as candidates. Part of that is because once they get into office, their credibility, their ability to do anything depends on doing the things that they said they would.

  Evan Osnos

  Office, President, Looks

  Source: www.npr.org

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