American president Quote by Henry Louis Mencken Download Open image “Intelligence has been commoner among American Presidents than high character.” — Henry Louis Mencken ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 5.0 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare American president American Presidents Intelligence
I believe each person has far more intelligence than they have ever used. — Brian Tracy Copy Share Image
Intelligence is playing a more important role in policymaker decisions than I think I've ever seen in my time in Congress or before. — Mike Rogers Copy Share Image
Every White House has had its intellectuals, but very few presidents have been intellectuals themselves - Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Woodrow Wilson, the list… — Jonathan Raban Copy Share Image
In a president, character is everything. A president doesn't have to be brilliant... He doesn't have to be clever; you can hire clever... You can hire pragmatic, and you can buy and bring in policy wonks. But you cant buy courage and decency, you cant rent a strong moral sense. A president must bring those things with him. He needs… — Peggy Noonan Copy Share
The intelligence community is very professional, they do their jobs well, they're the best intelligence gatherers in the world. They're dedicated, patriotic Americans. They… — Adam Schiff Copy Share Image
Intelligence is so damn rare and the people who have it often have such a bad time with it that they get bitter or… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
I think that the great presidents have always been a little more clever. — Bill Bradley Copy Share Image
Good government is that which delivers the citizen from the risk of being done out of his life and property too arbitrarily and violently… — Henry Louis Mencken Copy Share Image
The practical politician, as every connoisseur of ochlocracy knows, is not a man who seeks to inoculate the innumerable caravan of voters with new… — Henry Louis Mencken Copy Share Image
To be in love is merely to be in a perpetual state of anesthesia - to mistake an ordinary young man for a Greek… — Henry Louis Mencken Copy Share Image
“An enchanted life has many moments when the heart is overwhelmed with beauty and the imagination is electrified by some haunting quality in the… — Henry Louis Mencken Copy Share Image
Morality: The theory that every human act must either be right or wrong, and that 99% of them are wrong — Henry Louis Mencken Copy Share Image
The surest way to get on in politics in America is to play the leading part in a prosecution which attracts public notice. — Henry Louis Mencken Copy Share Image
Democratic man, as I have remarked, is quite unable to think of himself as a free individual; he must belong to a group, or… — Henry Louis Mencken Copy Share Image
He (the businessman) is the only man who is forever apologizing for his occupation — Henry Louis Mencken Copy Share Image
Human life is basically a comedy. Even its tragedies often seem comic to the spectator, and not infrequently they actually seem to have comic… — Henry Louis Mencken Copy Share Image
Perhaps the most revolting character that the United States ever produced was the Christian business man — Henry Louis Mencken Copy Share Image
The American President resembles the commander of a ship at sea. He must have a helm to grasp, a course to steer, a port… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
I happen to think that Hillary Clinton is a beacon of hope for younger girls, as was Barack Obama in other inspirational areas. We've… — Alex Meneses Copy Share Image
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself-and possibly teh bogey man. — Pat Paulsen Copy Share Image
The true sovereign is not the American president nor the English king, but the Lord of the Second Advent. — Sun Myung Moon Copy Share Image
Let's get real: would any American president seriously open up their borders unconditionally to Mexico as the U.K. has done to the whole of… — Nigel Farage Copy Share Image
It was interesting watching the Afghanistan war review deliberations, this three-month process where Barack Obama did the most thorough foreign policy review ever by a modern American president. Compare that to Libya. For a month he said we weren't going to do anything, then suddenly changed his mind and did it on the fly. My view is that it's not… — Michael Hastings Copy Share
“When was the last time an American president found it worth his while to write a speech on the importance of art and literature? I cannot recall. And yet at Yan’an, Mao said that art and literature were crucial to revolution. Conversely, he warned, art and literature could also be tools of domination. Art could not be separated from politics,… — Viet Thanh Nguyen Copy Share
To give credit to Lincoln for moral progression seems beyond the facts and unnecessary for our appreciation of this arguably greatest of all American… — Fred Kaplan Copy Share Image
In fact, American presidents never apologize for what America does in war, because in the American mind, all its wars are defensive, always fought… — Neil Macdonald Copy Share Image
President George W. Bush is the first American president to call openly for two-states, Israel and Palestine, living side by side in peace and… — Lee H. Hamilton Copy Share Image
On the contrary, I tried on numerous occasions to convince the American president not to go to war. I did what was within my… — Silvio Berlusconi Copy Share Image
I have never been more proud of the United States than I am this year. We have elected an African-American president. We have the stellar Michelle Obama setting the standard for American women. I simply cannot say it enough: look how far we've come. — Kathryn Stockett Copy Share
