Presidency Quotes
339 Presidency quotes by 216 unique authors
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No man could be equipped for the presidency if he has never been tempted by one of the seven cardinal sins.
— Eugene McCarthy
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We look a little bit disorderly, indecisive, leaderless. That's a real problem, and that's a problem that concerns me particularly on foreign affairs. The presidency,…
— Zbigniew Brzezinski
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If I were president of the United States, I would include Moslems in my presidency.
— Jerry Falwell
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Likewise the piercing of the body for multiple rings in the ears, in the nose, even in the tongue. Can they possibly think that is…
— Gordon B. Hinckley
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Every president has to live with the result of what Lyndon Johnson did with Vietnam, when he lost the trust of the American people in…
— Robert Caro
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I never wanted to get out of a place as much as I did to get out of the presidency.
— Ulysses S. Grant
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We need to do more than win an election or win the House or win the presidency, my friends: we need to make this beloved…
— Pat Buchanan
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Contrary to what people say, my wife never turned me away from the presidency. She told me to reflect on it and do what I…
— Jacques Delors
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All I ever wanted to be president of was the American League.
— A. Bartlett Giamatti
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Even in Madison's day, the practice of gerrymandering for partisan advantage was familiar. In the late seventeen-eighties, there were claims that Patrick Henry had tried…
— Jeffrey Toobin
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As a president I will be like the candidate that I am, a respectful candidate, a rallying candidate, a normal candidate for a normal presidency,…
— Francois Hollande
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I think the difference the Jimmy Carter presidency and the Obama regime is navet and maliciousness. I think this is purposeful maliciousness. That's why what…
— Allen West
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If the tide of defamation and abuse shall turn, and my administration come to be praised, future Vice-Presidents who may succeed to the Presidency may…
— John Tyler
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The student community of Presidency College was also politically most active.
— Amartya Sen
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You can always get the truth from an American statesman after he has turned seventy, or given up all hope of the Presidency.
— Wendell Phillips
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If any of you are secret poets, the best way to break into print is to run for the presidency,
— Eugene McCarthy
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When we generate utopian visions and hope to make them happen soon – when we elect Barack Obama and expect all our problems to be…
— Parker J. Palmer
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In short, Mr. Ryan’s plan is devoid of credible math or hard policy choices. And it couldn’t pass even if Republicans were to take the…
— David Stockman
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No man will ever bring out of the Presidency the reputation which carries him into it. To myself, personally, it brings nothing but increasing drudgery…
— Thomas Jefferson
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It's family, and it's faith, and it's friends, and it's not the glamour of the Presidency, or the wonder of going to receive the Nobel…
— George H. W. Bush
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If the American people really come to a settled belief that Bush lied us into war, his presidency will be over.
— William Kristol
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His presidency ended more than a decade ago, but politicians, Democrat and Republican, still talk about Ronald Reagan. Al Gore has an ad noting that…
— Unknown Author
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To reporters the day after his accession to the presidency, April 13, 1945: When they told me yesterday what had happened, I felt like the…
— Harry S. Truman
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Voting is no substitute for the eternal vigilance that every friend of freedom must demonstrate towards government. If our freedom is to survive, Americans must…
— James Bovard
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We are asking the wrong question. The issue is not who should be trusted with all the power of the Presidency. Instead, we must ask…
— James Bovard
Who Wrote These Presidency Quotes
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