Presidential Quotes - Page 10

• Presidential leadership is best evaluated not on the basis of one's agreement with the policies, but on their effectiveness in using their powers to transform the nation and our understanding of ourselves.

  James M Strock

  Understanding, Policy

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• The possibility of my presidential candidacy emerged spontaneously in public opinion polls. For my part, I noticed people's affection when I was doing work on the ground. I think the important thing is that my candidacy was born from citizens themselves, driven by the people and which the parties picked up favourably.

  Michelle Bachelet

  Party, Thinking, People

  "Michelle, top woman in a macho world". Interview with Diane Dixon, www.theguardian.com. April 2, 2006.

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• The early commentators who put down the pre-presidential Roosevelt as an empty-headed young lightweight, all ambition and no talent, now seem comically wrong to a modern book-reading, movie-going, television-watching, legend-loving American public conditioned to think of him as one of the presidential giants on the order of Washington and Lincoln.

  Russell Baker

  Book, Reading, Ambition

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• If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it's the best possible substitute for it.

  James A. Garfield

  Work, Skills, Decision

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• America's present need is not heroics but healing; not nostrums but normalcy; not revolution but restoration.

  Warren G. Harding

  Healing, America, Needs

  Speech, Boston, Mass., 14 May 1920.

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• I pity the man who wants a coat so cheap that the man or woman who produces the cloth will starve in the process.

  Benjamin Harrison

  Money, Inspirational Life, Men

  "Rain Still Follows Him: The President's Vermont Trip Marked by Storms". Speech in Rutland, Vermont, reported in The New York Times, August 29, 1891 issue p. 5,

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• We Americans have no commission from God to police the world.

  Benjamin Harrison

  War, Police, Liberty

  Benjamin Harrison, United States. President (1889-1893 : Harrison) (1969). “Benjamin Harrison, 1833-1901: chronology, documents, bibliographical aids”

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• Competition is not only the basis of protection to the consumer, but is the incentive to progress.

  Herbert Hoover

  Business, Competition, Progress

  United States. President (1929-1933 : Hoover), Herbert Hoover (1974). “Herbert Hoover: Containing the Public Messages, Speeches, and Statements of the President”

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• Words without actions are the assassins of idealism.

  Herbert Hoover

  Silence, Acting, Assassins

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• America - a great social and economic experiment, noble in motive and far-reaching in purpose.

  Herbert Hoover

  America, Purpose, Noble

  Letter toWilliam E. Borah, 23 Feb. 1928.

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• The slogan of progress is changing from the full dinner pail to the full garage.

  Herbert Hoover

  Progress, Dinner, Garage

  Campaign speech, New York, N.Y., 22 Oct. 1928.

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• I was extended secret service protection during my presidential run in 1984, when I received the most death threats ever made toward a candidate.

  Jesse Jackson

  Running, Secret, Protection

  Interview with Rosanna Greenstreet, www.theguardian.com. April 13, 2012.

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• The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Freedom, War, Patriotic

  Thomas Jefferson (2010). “The Works of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence 1786-1787”, p.263, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Delay is preferable to error.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Mistake, Errors, Liberty

  Thomas Jefferson, H. A. Washington (2011). “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Being His Autobiography, Correspondence, Reports, Messages, Addresses, and Other Writings, Official and Private”, p.357, Cambridge University Press

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• An injured friend is the bitterest of foes.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Friendship, Bitterness, Foreign Policy

  Thomas Jefferson (2010). “The Works of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence 1792-1793”, p.292, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Honest conviction is my courage; the Constitution is my guide.

  Andrew Johnson

  Inspirational Life, Honest, Constitution

  Andrew Johnson (1967). “The Papers of Andrew Johnson: February-July 1866”, p.151, Univ. of Tennessee Press

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• Doing what's right isn't the problem. It is knowing what's right.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Success, Leadership, Knowing

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• The fact that a man is a newspaper reporter is evidence of some flaw of character.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Sarcastic, Character, Men

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• We have talked long enough in this country about equal rights. It is time now to write the next chapter - and to write it in the books of law.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Country, Book, Writing

  Address before Joint Session of Congress, 27 Nov. 1963

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• War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today.

  John F. Kennedy

  Peace, War, Today

  "Warrior" by William Safire, www.nytimes.com. August 26, 2007.

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• Man is still the most extraordinary computer of all.

  John F. Kennedy

  Inspirational, Technology, Men

  1963 Speech, 21 May.

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• All free men, wherever they may live, are citizens of Berlin. And therefore, as a free man, I take pride in the words 'Ich bin ein Berliner!'

  John F. Kennedy

  Patriotic, Pride, Men

  Remarks in Rudolf Wilde Platz,West Berlin, Germany, 26 June 1963.

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• We must use time as a tool, not as a couch.

  John F. Kennedy

  Funny, Time, Tools

  John F. Kennedy's Address in New York City to the National Association of Manufacturers, www.jfklibrary.org. December 5, 1961.

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• Somebody asked me about the current choice we're being given in the presidential election. I said, Well, it's like two of the scariest movies I can imagine.

  Dean Koontz

  Two, Choices, Literature

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• I believe an invitation from the Commission on Presidential Debates is similar to a draft notice - a civic responsibility.

  Jim Lehrer

  Believe, Responsibility, Debate

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