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title: "7 Idea President Quotes by 6 authors"
description: "Browse 7 Idea President quotes by 6 authors. Discover the best Idea President sayings and thoughts."
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> [“His handlers have built an enormous blockhouse for him, and he almost never strays from its air-locked confines. We only encounter him…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jacques-pauw/his-handlers-have-built-an-enormous-blockhouse-for-him-and-he-almost/)

[Jacques Pauw](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jacques-pauw/)

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> [I would love to see Mr. (Henry) Ford in there, really. I don't know who started the idea that a President must…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/will-rogers/i-would-love-to-see-mr-henry-ford-in-there-really-i-don-t-know-who/)

[Will Rogers](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/will-rogers/)

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> [“The idea that the president has the power to craft a new strategy both overstates his power and understates the power of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-friedman/the-idea-that-the-president-has-the-power-to-craft-a-new-strategy/)

[George Friedman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-friedman/)

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> [The idea that any president represents the world, by definition the United States must be diminished for that to happen.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rush-limbaugh/the-idea-that-any-president-represents-the-world-by-definition-the/)

[Rush Limbaugh](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rush-limbaugh/)

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> [Say, this new home building idea of President Hoover's sounds good. They are working out a lot of beneficial things. The only…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/will-rogers/say-this-new-home-building-idea-of-president-hoover-s-sounds-good/)

[Will Rogers](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/will-rogers/)

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> [As a child, I remember being in the pool at this pool party and having to get out of the pool to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kelly-reichardt/as-a-child-i-remember-being-in-the-pool-at-this-pool-party-and-having/)

[Kelly Reichardt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kelly-reichardt/)

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> [The idea that I should become President seems to me too visionary to require a serious answer. It has never entered my…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/zachary-taylor/the-idea-that-i-should-become-president-seems-to-me-too-visionary-to/)

[Zachary Taylor](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/zachary-taylor/)

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