Truman Quotes

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I have three favorite politicians: Reagan, Truman, and Bobby Kennedy - Bobby for showing remarkable political courage despite being loathed by many on both sides. — Joe Scarborough
Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. — Rich Little
I love Truman Capote, Tennessee Williams, Flannery O'Connor. I read a lot of American writers. — Kiran Desai
Let me tell you the first president to recognize the state of Israel was Harry Truman, a Democrat and every president since, Democrat and Republican,… — Dick Durbin
If Obama's vision of the public sector is socialism, then so too were the visions of Theodore Roosevelt, Franklin Roosevelt, Harry Truman, Dwight Eisenhower, John… — Jeff Greenfield
With the Truman book, I wrote the entire account of his experiences in World War I before going over to Europe to follow his tracks… — David McCullough
My lasting impression of Truman Capote is that he was a terribly gentle, terribly sensitive, and terribly sad man. — Alvin Ailey
President Roosevelt and President Truman and President Eisenhower had the same experience, they all made the effort to get along with the Russians. But every… — John F. Kennedy
As you may recall, Truman was extremely unpopular when he finally left Washington in 1953, thanks largely to the Korean War. Today, however, he is… — Thomas Frank
Every President I think I've ever known, except Truman, has thought they didn't quite get done what they wanted done. And toward the end of… — Billy Graham
Well, you know what, I'm 60 years old, and I've been interested in politics since I was on my daddy's knee. During the 1948 election,… — Roger Ebert
I went to a little liberal-arts college in Missouri called Truman State University. — Jenna Fischer
Truman Capote famously claimed to have nearly absolute recall of dialogue and used his prodigious memory as an excuse never to take notes or use… — Joshua Foer
I always go back to Harry Truman: Should we drop an atomic bomb to save 100,000 lives? That's a hell of a decision to make.… — Lee Iacocca
When you first saw 'The Truman Show,' did anyone else walk around for the next week not picking your nose just in case? — Anna Kendrick
Obama has been perhaps the most partisan President since Truman. He hasn't learned to be civil - note his insulting speech to Paul Ryan, who… — Grover Norquist
I think Democrats made a mistake running away from liberalism. Liberalism, uh, Franklin Roosevelt, Harry Truman, John and Robert Kennedy - that's what the Democratic… — Theodore C. Sorensen
I was in Independence, Missouri when Johnson signed the Medicare bill, with Truman standing there. Truman had first proposed Medicare, but couldn't get it through. — Helen Thomas
Truman fired the popular Gen. Douglas MacArthur because he disobeyed orders in the Korean War. Johnson knew that he had reached the endgame in Vietnam… — Helen Thomas
"The whole world is three drinks behind. If everyone in the world would take three drinks, we would have no trouble. If Stalin, Truman and… — Humphrey Bogart

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