Presidential Quotes
865 quotes by 302 authors
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The possibility of my presidential candidacy emerged spontaneously in public opinion polls. For my part, I noticed people's affection when I was doing work on…
— Michelle Bachelet
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The early commentators who put down the pre-presidential Roosevelt as an empty-headed young lightweight, all ambition and no talent, now seem comically wrong to a…
— Russell Baker
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We have nothing in our history or position to invite aggression; we have everything to beckon us to the cultivation of relations of peace and…
— Franklin P. Adams
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I say I'm the only serious comedian in the presidential race. And I'd like to take this opportunity to ask both Romney and Obama to…
— Roseanne Barr
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The happiness of society is the end of government.
— John Adams
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A government of laws, and not of men.
— John Adams
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Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order.
— John Adams
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Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost.
— John Quincy Adams
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The ballot box is the surest arbiter of disputes among free men.
— James Buchanan
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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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America is never wholly herself unless she is engaged in high moral principle. We as a people have such a purpose today. It is to…
— George H. W. Bush
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I am suspending my presidential campaign, because of the continued distractions, the continued hurt caused on me and my family, not because we are not…
— Herman Cain
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What if Barack Obama established a Presidential Advisory Committee that would meet once every couple of months, bringing together the former presidents for a conference…
— Tony Campolo
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We become not a melting pot but a beautiful mosaic. Different people, different beliefs, different yearnings, different hopes, different dreams.
— Jimmy Carter
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America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense human rights invented America.
— Jimmy Carter
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I have often wanted to drown my troubles, but I can't get my wife to go swimming.
— Jimmy Carter
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We must adjust to changing times and still hold to unchanging principles.
— Jimmy Carter
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Aggression unopposed becomes a contagious disease.
— Jimmy Carter
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When you're the presidential nominee you get to pick whomever you choose to be on the ticket, and that person gets to say yes or…
— Hillary Clinton
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Communism is a hateful thing, and a menace to peace and organized government.
— Grover Cleveland
Who Wrote These Presidential Quotes
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