First President Quotes
21 quotes by 20 authors
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Well, you know, I had been a peanut farmer. I had - you know who was the first president - Democratic president I ever met?…
— Jimmy Carter
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What is most important of this grand experiment, the United States? Not the election of the first president but the election of its second president.…
— George Washington
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Take the veto. Bush is the first president since James Garfield in 1881 not to veto a single bill. Garfield only had six months in…
— Jim Cooper
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People complain that our generation has no philosophers. They are wrong. They now sit in another faculty. Their names are Max Planck and Albert Einstein.…
— Adolf von Harnack
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Obama is hardly the first president to seek rapprochement with our adversaries and reconciliation with our enemies, of course. But his determination to make nice…
— Stephen F. Hayes
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Modern Democrats aren't the first political party to abuse power - far from it. Obama isn'€™t the first president to abuse executive power - not…
— David Harsanyi
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Washington's character was rock solid. He came to stand for the new nation and its republican virtues, which was why he became our first President…
— Stephen Ambrose
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You are the first President to whom the opportunity was ever offered constitutionally to inaugurate such a day. If you fail us now, you may…
— Jay Sekulow
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First, President Reagan was not enthusiastic. But I built up a relationship with him in other areas and then persuaded him that this was important…
— Brian Mulroney
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Let me tell you the first president to recognize the state of Israel was Harry Truman, a Democrat and every president since, Democrat and Republican,…
— Dick Durbin
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I was a big fan of Ronald Reagan. He was the first president I got to vote for.
— Steve Daines
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Even the country's first president chafed at the limits placed on him by the writers of the U.S. Constitution. From the nature of the Constitution,…
— George Washington
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Andrew Jackson was the first president to claim that the desires of the public overrode Congress's constitutional prerogatives. Virtually every president since Jackson has claimed…
— Ron Fournier
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Miss Wormwood: Calvin, your test was an absolute disgrace! It's obvious you haven't read any of the material. Our first president was not Chef Boy-Ar-Dee…
— Bill Watterson
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Since Jimmy Carter, religious fundamentalists play a major role in elections. He was the first president who made a point of exhibiting himself as a…
— Noam Chomsky
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In theory, at least, all presidents are servants of the people who elected them. In the case of Barack Obama, it has seemed from the…
— Charlie Pierce
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Nelson Mandela was an outstanding leader and a mentor for me. I was in South Africa at the time he was released. I was in…
— Gail Kelly
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The first president I met was L. B. J.
— Dan Jenkins
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Unless things change radically, President Bush will be the first President since Herbert Hoover to have presided over a net loss of jobs during his…
— Tim Johnson
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I've been a strong financial and political supporter of, first, President Bush Sr. when he was running for president, and even when he ran for…
— Kenneth Lay
Who Wrote These First President Quotes
20 authors contributed a total of 21 First President Quotes as follows: