Presidency Quotes
339 quotes by 225 authors
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When you are running for the presidency of the United States, you have to expect that you are going to have attacks by all sides.
— Michele Bachmann
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I want my candidacy for the presidency of the United States to stand for a moment when we the people, stand once again for the…
— Michele Bachmann
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Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.
— Douglas Adams
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One of the embarrassing problems for the early nineteenth-century champions of the Christian faith was that not one of the first six Presidents of the…
— Mortimer Adler
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There has been so much power concentrated. There is no leash on that power anymore and Americans face the situation that this power is getting…
— James Bovard
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As to the presidency, the two happiest days of my life were those of my entrance upon the office and my surrender of it.
— Martin Van Buren
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I just didn't want to get out there anymore; I didn't want to get back into what I call 'the swamp.' And the other reason…
— George W. Bush
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So, for example, a country was into recession right after I was sworn in, a dot-com bust had taken place. Then the attacks of September…
— George W. Bush
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In the scheme of our national government, the presidency is preeminently the people's office.
— Grover Cleveland
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I like the job. That's what I'll miss the most... I'm not sure anybody ever liked this as much as I've liked it.
— William J. Clinton
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As with almost every significant aspect of the Bush presidency, its handling of 9/11 was a catastrophe from start to finish.
— Eric Alterman
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Certainly there are worse sins than doing everything possible to make your presidency matter.
— Eric Alterman
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I acknowledged that I owed my presidency to People Power. I resolved during my presidency that I would in turn empower the people.
— Corazon Aquino
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In golf, you keep your head down and follow through. In the vice presidency, you keep your head up and follow through. It's a big…
— Dan Quayle
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The best thing about Eisenhower's Presidency was his Jeffersonian conviction that there should be as little government and as much golf as possible.
— Alistair Cooke
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I am naturally anti-slavery. If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong. I can not remember when I did not so think, and feel. And…
— Abraham Lincoln
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The wave of the future is not the conquest of the world by a single dogmatic creed but the liberation of the diverse energies of…
— John F. Kennedy
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But I'm mindful in a free society that people can worship if they want to or not. You're equally an American if you choose to…
— George W. Bush
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In 1891, during the Presidency of William Henry Harrison [Benjamin Harrison], electric lights were first installed in the White House, the residence of the leaders…
— Jimmy Carter
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All of our miseries are nothing but attachment. Our whole ignorance and darkness is a strange combination of a thousand and one attachments. And we…
— Rajneesh
Who Wrote These Presidency Quotes
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