Presidential Quotes - Page 16

• Sen. Joe Biden, on the day of announcing his candidacy for president of the United States, called Barack Obama the first mainstream African-American who is articulate, bright, and . . . clean. I think we've seen the shortest presidential campaign in history.

  Jay Leno

  Thinking, African American, Biden

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• I ask that all Americans demonstrate in their personal and public lives... the high ethical standards that are essential to good character and to the continued success of our Nation.

  William J. Clinton

  Character, Ethical Standards, Essentials

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• If I'm the president of the United States, I walk right into Union Square, I set up my little presidential podium, and I say, 'Listen, citizens of San Francisco, if you vote against military recruiting, you're not going to get another nickel in federal funds. Fine. You want to be your own country? Go right ahead. And if Al Qaeda comes in here and blows you up, we're not going to do anything about it. We're going to say, look, every other place in America is off limits to you, except San Francisco. You want to blow up the Coit Tower? Go ahead.'

  Bill O'Reilly

  Country, Military, Blow

  "The Radio Factor", November 8, 2005.

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• You cannot win a battle in any arena merely by defending yourself.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Success, Winning, Battle

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• I think the Democratic Party realizes, having lost two presidential elections, we need to do a better job of creating a farm team.

  John Mahoney

  Jobs, Team, Party

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• If image is everything, how can the Democratic presidential hopefuls compete with a President fresh from a war victory.

  Judy Woodruff

  War, Air, Victory

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• Hurricane Sandy interrupted Mr. Romney’s momentum and allowed Mr. Obama to look presidential and bipartisan.

  Karl Rove

  Momentum, Looks, Hurricane Sandy

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• All power in human hands is liable to be abused.

  James Madison

  Hands, Liable, Humans

  James Madison, David B. Mattern (1997). “James Madison's "Advice to My Country"”, p.80, University of Virginia Press

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• A strong nation, like a strong person, can afford to be gentle, firm, thoughtful, and restrained. It can afford to extend a helping hand to others. It's a weak nation, like a weak person, that must behave with bluster and boasting and rashness and other signs of insecurity.

  Jimmy Carter

  Strong, Thoughtful, Compassion

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• The American dream is not that every man must be level with every other man. The American dream is that every man must be free to become whatever God intends he should become.

  Ronald Reagan

  Dream, Freedom, Men

  Ronald Reagan (1993). “Actor, Ideologue, Politician: The Public Speeches of Ronald Reagan”, Greenwood Publishing Group

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• There is a connection, hard to explain logically but easy to feel, between achievement in public life and progress in the arts. The age of Pericles was also the age of Phidias. The age of Lorenzo de Medici was also the age of Leonardo da Vinci. The age of Elizabeth was also the age of Shakespeare. And the New Frontier for which I campaign in public life, can also be a New Frontier for American art.

  John F. Kennedy

  Art, Achievement, Progress

  Response to letter sent by Theodate Johnson on September 13, 1960. "John F. Kennedy Quotations: The Arts", www.jfklibrary.org.

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• Too often in the past, we have thought of the artist as an idler and dilettante and of the lover of arts as somehow sissy and effete. We have done both an injustice. The life of the artist is, in relation to his work, stern and lonely. He has labored hard, often amid deprivation, to perfect his skill. He has turned aside from quick success in order to strip his vision of everything secondary or cheapening. His working life is marked by intense application and intense discipline.

  John F. Kennedy

  Lonely, Art, Past

  John Fitzgerald Kennedy, Magnum Photos, inc, John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts (U.S.) (1962). “Creative America”

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• In serving his vision of the truth, the artist best serves his nation.

  John F. Kennedy

  Artist, Vision, Nations

  1963 At the dedication of Amherst College Robert Frost Library, 25 Oct.

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• The Federal Budget can and should be made an instrument of prosperity and stability, not a deterrent to recovery.

  John F. Kennedy

  Recovery, Prosperity, Made

  Kennedy, John F. (1962). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1961”, p.43, Best Books on

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• There are indications because of new inventions, that 10, 15, or 20 nations will have a nuclear capacity, including Red China, by the end of the Presidential office in 1964. This is extremely serious. I think the fate not only of our own civilization, but I think the fate of world and the future of the human race, is involved in preventing a nuclear war.

  John F. Kennedy

  War, Fate, Thinking

  Third Nixon-Kennedy Presidential Debate, October 13, 1960.

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• Appeasement does not work. As was the case in the 1930s, we see in Saddam Hussein an aggressive dictator threatening his neighbors.

  George H. W. Bush

  Doe, Hussein, Dictator

  George H.W. Bush (2009). “Speaking of Freedom: The Collected Speeches”, p.123, Simon and Schuster

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• We also share a profound desire for a lasting peace in the Middle East. My Administration is dedicated to achieving this goal, one which will guarantee Israel security. At the same time, we will do our utmost to defend and protect Israel, for unless Israel is strong and secure, then peace will always be beyond our grasp. We were with Israel at the beginning, 41 years ago. We are with Israel today. And we will be with Israel in the future. No one should doubt this basic committment.

  George H. W. Bush

  Strong, Israel, Years

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• I understand personally, ... that it is frustrating to lose presidential elections by narrow margins.

  James Baker

  Election, Frustrating, Margins

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• It is the responsibility of the citizens to support their government. It is not the responsibility of the government to support its citizens.

  Grover Cleveland

  Responsibility, Government, Support

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• I believe that communism is another sad, bizarre chapter in human history whose last pages even now are being written. I believe this because the source of our strength in the quest for human freedom is not material, but spiritual. And because it knows no limitation, it must terrify and ultimately triumph over those who would enslave their fellow men.

  Ronald Reagan

  Spiritual, Believe, Men

  Remarks at the Annual Convention of the the National Association of Evangelicals, delivered 8 March 1983, Orlando, Florida

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• Obama a ‘light-skinned’ African-American ‘with no Negro dialect, unless he wanted to have one.

  Harry Reid

  Country, Light, Racism

  "Harry Reid’s Non-Gaffe" by Kevin Drum, www.motherjones.com. January 10, 2010.

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• The less government interferes with private pursuits, the better for general prosperity.

  Martin Van Buren

  Government, Prosperity, Pursuit

  Martin Van Buren (1969). “Martin Van Buren, 1782-1862: chronology-documents-bibliographical aids”

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• You're a trivial part in a trivia game.
  Now what's your aim? A presidential campaign?
  Like Ross Perot? He lost it though...
  But he got a billion in tha bank fo' sho'!

  Aceyalone

  Rap, Games, Hip Hop

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• When I hit the skins they all say, 'Damn Kane...
  You knock out the Bush like a presidential campaign!'

  Big Daddy Kane

  Rap, Hip Hop, Skins

  Song: How U Get a Record Deal?, Album: Looks Like a Job For...

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• I don't know much about Americanism, but it's a damn good word with which to carry an election.

  Warren G. Harding

  Political, Politics, Election

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