Eisenhower Quotes
65 quotes by 54 authors
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In my lifetime, we've gone from Eisenhower to George W. Bush. We've gone from John F. Kennedy to Al Gore. If this is evolution, I…
— Lewis Black
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Eisenhower is my choice as the American of the 20th Century. Of all the men I've studied and written about, he is the brightest and…
— Stephen Ambrose
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I've always tried to be fair to my subjects. That's easy when they are as likable and admirable as Lewis and Clark, or Eisenhower.
— Stephen Ambrose
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President Eisenhower has given up golf for painting. It takes fewer strokes.
— Bob Hope
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The day before my inauguration President Eisenhower told me, You'll find that no easy problems ever come to the President of the United States. If…
— John F. Kennedy
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Once he makes up his mind, he's full of indecision. - On Dwight D. Eisenhower
— Oscar Levant
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Eisenhower was my war hero and the President I admire and respect most
— Ethel Merman
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Eisenhower had the clearest blue eyes. He would fix them on you. In my every interview with him, he would lock his eyes on to…
— Stephen Ambrose
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President Eisenhower saw it coming, and it is here. Patriotism no longer exists among many of these corporations. Some companies have more economic clout than…
— Byron Dorgan
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I have worked with Presidents since Eisenhower. We serve together.
— John Dingell
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It was a Republican, President Dwight D. Eisenhower, who first protected the Arctic Refuge to balance the oil development at Prudhoe Bay with responsible conservation.
— Robert Dold
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I'm undoubtedly a liberal, which means that I'm in almost total agreement with the Eisenhower-era Republican party platform.
— Rachel Maddow
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Eisenhower had run the Army; he knew all the ways decision making can go off the rails, and insisted on collective debate precisely to prevent…
— Nancy Gibbs
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Eisenhower advocated a variety of strong actions which he had never taken when he was president. Maybe this was just the pattern of former presidents;…
— Nancy Gibbs
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If Wellington epitomizes the English gentleman, Eisenhower epitomizes the natural American gentleman.
— John Keegan
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Arnold Palmer has what I call an 'Eisenhower smile'. Those two men, they'd smile and their whole faces would look so pleasant; it was like…
— Byron Nelson
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With the Republicans controlling both houses of Congress, this is the Eisenhower-era revisited. It's ostrich time, where people are looking for comfort rather than challenge…
— David Fricke
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Dwight D. Eisenhower changed America forever with the creation of the interstate highway program.
— Joel Garreau
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Eisenhower admitted that the budget can't be balanced and McCarthy said the communists are taking over. You don't know what to worry about these days…
— Bob Hope
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So the reason that the Bay of Pigs failed was that the original promise made by Eisenhower was not kept by the subsequent Administration. It…
— E. Howard Hunt
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