President Quotes - Page 27

• When you're the commander in chief, you're the commander in chief on day one. You don't get like a six-month grace period. The world doesn't just stop and say, well, let's wait until the president catches up before we start challenging America.

  Marco Rubio

  America, Waiting, Grace

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• You have got to know what you're doing on your very first day there. So, look, this is not an attack or anything of that nature. It's just a very simple observation. If you want to be president, you have to start detailing some specific public policy. And I don't think from this point forward in the campaign, voters are going to be as tolerant of the lack of that as they have been up to now.

  Marco Rubio

  Simple, Thinking, Campaigns

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• I mean, on virtually every major issue before this country that is the natural purview of the federal government, it's important to have some specificity about what you're going to do if you want to be the president. And so I agree that, up until this point, it hasn't been a huge factor.

  Marco Rubio

  Country, Mean, Government

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• While I think it's very important that Marco Rubio and Senator [Ted] Cruz have contributed as senators... there's no doubt in my mind that being a governor is far, far better preparation for the ultimate responsibility as president of the United States.

  Tom Ridge

  Responsibility, Thinking, Doubt

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• When you are brought up in a zoo, you know what's going on in the monkey house. You see a couple of monkeys loose and one is President and one is Vice President, you know it's trouble. Monkeys make trouble.

  Gore Vidal

  Zoos, Couple, House

  "Gore Vidal on the Media and the American People". Interview with David Barsamian, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. August 1, 2012.

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• Here is a needle President Obama needs to thread if he chooses a ninth. The nominee would need to be so strongly qualified that he or she would be hard to reject. The person must also be willing to be nominated even though leading Senate Republicans have said they will not consider anyone the president names.

  Steve Inskeep

  Names, Would Be, Needs

  "Supreme Court Nominating Process Shrouded In Secrecy". "Morning Edition" with Steve Inskeep, www.npr.org. February 23, 2016.

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• There's nothing easy about running for president, I can tell you. It's tough, it's nasty, it's mean, it's vicious, it's beautiful. When you win, it's beautiful. And we are going to start - we are going to start winning for our country.

  Donald Trump

  Beautiful, Running, Country

  "Donald Trump and Marco Rubio react to South Carolina primary results". "Fox News Sunday" with Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. February 21, 2016.

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• We're going to come up with a great healthcare plan, whether it's healthcare savings accounts, we have a lot of different things. We're going to get rid of the lines between states, we're going to have great competitive bidding. But I say all the time, you can call it anything you want. People are not going to die in the middle of the street. People are not going to die on the sidewalk if I'm president, okay?

  Donald Trump

  People, Different, Bidding

  "Meet the Press" with Chuck Todd, www.nbcnews.com. February 21, 2016.

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• If I'm president, we're not going to have people dying on the streets. I don't call it a mandate, I just say it's common sense.

  Donald Trump

  People, Common Sense, Dying

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• If I'm going to be president, I will try the best I can, and I'm a very good dealmaker, believe me.

  Donald Trump

  Believe, Trying, Very Good

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• When I'm president, the Senate bill is not going to be what we're operating off of. It's going to begin by focusing on securing our border first and foremost. And until you do that, you're not going to be able to do anything else.

  Marco Rubio

  Bills, Able, Firsts

  "Meet the Press" with Chuck Todd, www.nbcnews.com. February 21, 2016.

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• What we saw with both Donald Trump and Marco Rubio, that their response, whenever you point to anything in their record, is just to yell, "Liar, liar, liar," and to get very personal and to make direct character attacks. And my approach, from the very beginning of this President's campaign, starting a year ago in 2015, is that I will not respond in kind. I do not intend to insult any of the candidates.

  Ted Cruz

  Liars, Character, Years

  "Meet the Press" with Chuck Todd, www.nbcnews.com. February 21, 2016.

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• For anyone who doesn't believe that Donald Trump is the best candidate to go head to head with Hillary Clinton in November, and that's about 70 percent of Republicans nationwide who don't think Donald Trump is the right guy, our [President's] campaign is the only campaign that has beaten Donald Trump and that can beat Donald Trump.

  Ted Cruz

  Believe, Thinking, Guy

  "Meet the Press" with Chuck Todd, www.nbcnews.com. February 21, 2016.

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• I've never heard anybody [of president's candidates] talk about the poorly educated.

  Chris Matthews

  Educated, Heard, Candidates

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• For me, I want a president who is more than a symbol, someone who has ideas that I align with.

  Emily Ratajkowski

  Ideas, Want, Symbols

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

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• Well, who's going to be fired when Ted Cruz is president? Because this campaign now has repeatedly done things that they have to apologize for and no one's ever held accountable.

  Marco Rubio

  Done, Campaigns, Apologizing

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• I think that [Donald] Trump is brilliant to raise this issue. When my son, Gabriel, and his wife, Deb, was pregnant, I said, You got to come home. I want my grandson to be president of the United States. He has to be born in the United States.Now, a child of a citizen of the United States born abroad or born wheresoever is a citizen if that's - he or she so chooses. So there's no doubt but that Ted Cruz is a citizen of the United States.

  Donald Trump

  Children, Home, Son

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• Being a president is being a CEO, essentially.

  Geraldo Rivera

  Ceo

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• It's not going to do anything. And it really is disappointing because the president has an opportunity here to work with organizations like the NRA, who have actually done a lot of significant work when it comes to actually keeping guns out of the hands of criminals. Hillary Clinton can attack the NRA all she wants, the fact is that the NRA has a higher approval rating than Hillary Clinton does when it comes to trustworthiness, that's for sure.

  Katie Pavlich

  Gun, Opportunity, Approval Rating

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• The bottom line is if the president [Barack Obama] really wants to keep guns out of the hands of criminals, maybe his Justice Department should stop releasing felons, many of which are illegal immigrants, only to the streets of America.

  Katie Pavlich

  Gun, Hands, America

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• This is a president [Barack Obama] who came into office in 2008 with a big majority in the House and with a filibuster-proof majority in the Senate. Because of his policies and his conduct in office, seven years later, we have our largest majority in the House since 1928, and we have a majority in the Senate and we have 31 of the 60 governorships.

  Chris Christie

  Years, Office, House

  "Christie explains changed stance on gun laws; Trump Jr. talks father's candidacy; Fiorina scolds Clinton". "Hannity" with Sean Hannity, www.foxnews.com. January 6, 2016.

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• Since the president's [Barack Obama] lost all of that [majority in Senate], he now has decided he's just going to write laws on his own. He's going to give us edicts, as if he's a king. And that is a petulant child. He's refusing to listen to the will of the American people, which is they reject his policies.

  Chris Christie

  Kings, Children, Writing

  "Christie explains changed stance on gun laws; Trump Jr. talks father's candidacy; Fiorina scolds Clinton". "Hannity" with Sean Hannity, www.foxnews.com. Jnauary 6, 2016.

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• What we need in Washington now is a strong Republican president who knows how to govern.

  Chris Christie

  Strong, Needs, Republican

  "Christie explains changed stance on gun laws; Trump Jr. talks father's candidacy; Fiorina scolds Clinton". "Hannity" with Sean Hannity, www.foxnews.com. January 6, 2016.

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• This is part of the president's problem. Where's Barack Obama been when the crime rate and the murder rate in Chicago has gone up in 18 percent? Where has he been when the murder rate in New York is up 11 percent? Instead he and liberals like Bill de Blasio and Rahm Emanuel and others, what they're doing is not supporting the police departments, not making sure that they're being supported, and they're letting them do their jobs. And so we have criminals who have easy access to guns.

  Chris Christie

  Jobs, New York, Gun

  "Christie explains changed stance on gun laws; Trump Jr. talks father's candidacy; Fiorina scolds Clinton". "Hannity" with Sean Hannity, www.foxnews.com. January 6, 2016.

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• Everything Bill Clinton has done is fair game. He's a former president. I just don't think that is the most effective way to beat Hillary Clinton, because while all that was going on there were a lot of women who felt for whatever reason great sympathy for Hillary Clinton. Look, if my husband were doing that, I would have left him. I would not have behaved the way Hillary Clinton did.

  Carly Fiorina

  Husband, Thinking, Games

  "Fiorina: Trump is a Clinton Christmas gift, I'm the lump of coal; US doing enough to defeat ISIS?". "Fox News Sunday" with Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. December 20, 2015.

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