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- Nobody suffers the pain of birth or the anguish of loving a child in order for presidents to make wars, for governments to feed on…
- A certain kind of rich man afflicted with the symptoms of moral dandyism sooner or later comes to the conclusion that it isn't enough merely…
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- Presidents do not go off on leave without telling the country. — Chinua Achebe
- I have walked into the palaces of kings and queens and into the houses of presidents. And much more. But I could… — Josephine Baker
- Letter writing was clearly important to Reagan. Even as president he kept dashing off letters to friends, pen pals, media people, statesmen,… — Russell Baker
- Power is poison. Its effect on Presidents had always been tragic. — Henry Adams
- Presidents have the right to nominate their own cabinet secretaries. But their nominees don't have a right to confirmation. Senators have a… — Gary Bauer
- One of the embarrassing problems for the early nineteenth-century champions of the Christian faith was that not one of the first six… — Mortimer Adler
- If presidents can't do it to their wives, they do it to their country. — Mel Brooks
- What if Barack Obama established a Presidential Advisory Committee that would meet once every couple of months, bringing together the former presidents… — Tony Campolo
- Because of the increase in life longevity, America can now assume that at any given time three, and perhaps four, former presidents… — Tony Campolo
- I feel that my role as a former president is probably superior to that of other presidents. Primarily because of the activism… — Jimmy Carter
- I've worked for four presidents and watched two others up close, and I know that there's no such thing as a routine… — Dick Cheney
- You got to have people at the top who respond to and are selected by presidents. — Dick Cheney