Best Presidents Qoutes
333 Presidents quotes by 258 unique authors
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The conclusion I have reached is that, above all, dogs are witnesses. They are allowed access to our most private moments. They are there when…
— Carolyn Parkhurst
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What do Americans know about morality? They don't want their presidents to have penises but they don't mind if their presidents covertly arrange to support…
— John Irving
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Presidents are selected, not elected.
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
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General Motors, General Mills, General Foods, general ignorance, general apathy, and general cussedness elect presidents and Congressmen and maintain them in power.
— Herbert M. Shelton
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My job is to find the politicians and the presidents and the pompous people who are telling other people how to live, powerful, visible creatures…
— Craig Ferguson
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Washington was a typical American. Napoleon was a typical Frenchman, but Lincoln was a humanitarian as broad as the world. He was bigger than his…
— Doris Kearns Goodwin
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Most of the mess that is called history comes about because kings and presidents cannot be satisfied with a nice chicken and a good loaf…
— Jennifer Donnelly
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You and me will read a book and find three interesting things that we remember. But Colin finds everything intriguing. He reads a book about…
— John Green
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Presidents have absolutely gone against the will of Congress. Congress hasn't declared a war since December 7, 1941, and yet we've been at war ever…
— Gore Vidal
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I’m never wrong? Who besides Republican presidents and evil masterminds can say that with a straight face?
— Josh Lanyon
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This is what Jesus had in mind: folks coming together, forming close-knit communities and meeting each other's needs-- no kings, no major welfare systems, no…
— Shane Claiborne
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Look at the trees, look at the birds, look at the clouds, look at the stars… and if you have eyes you will be able…
— Rajneesh
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I would argue that a truly developed country would be beyond Presidents and Kings. In a world with some semblance of equality, each liberal-minded woman,…
— Isaac Asimov
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Some people want to be bank presidents. Other people want to rob banks.
— Richard Ford
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A friend of ours said if the same laws were applied to U.S. Presidents as were applied to the Nazis after WWII, that every single…
— Zack de la Rocha
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Presidents cannot always kick evil-minded persons out of the front door. Such persons are often selected by the electors to represent them.
— Herbert Hoover
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We have had plenty of atheist presidents; they just wouldn't admit it.
— Daniel Dennett
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Great presidents, and even those not so great, never complained about the hands they were dealt. Just the opposite. They assumed they were in the…
— Mark McKinnon
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The presidency awed me, but presidents do not. Perhaps I have always expected too much of them, but I believe that when they reach the…
— Helen Thomas
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Presidents hate the press. They hate me most of the time.
— Helen Thomas
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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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Presidents tend to tinker, you know, and mess everything up.
— Pat Paulsen
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Futurism is another American myth: whether Kennedy, Johnson, Reagan or Obama, American presidents all come into office with a new program, and the conviction that…
— James Hillman
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I have walked into the palaces of kings and queens and into the houses of presidents. And much more.
— Josephine Baker
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Ex-Presidents of the United States get state subsidies. Not so in Russia. You get no government support.
— Mikhail Gorbachev
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