Ambition Quote by John McCain Download Open image “Presidential ambition is a disease that can only be cured by embalming fluid .” — John McCain ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.5 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Ambition Disease Embalming Fluid Presidential
You cannot denude the presidency of the substance and power of its office. It can't be done. — Benjamin Wittes Copy Share Image
Once you're president, there's blood on your hands - there's no way around it. — Brian Azzarello Copy Share Image
Being President is a little bit like riding a tiger. You have to keep riding, or else you will be swallowed up by it! — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
“For the same reason a disease cannot be cured by more of the germ that caused it, the inflation and debt accumulation of the… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
Being a president is like riding a tiger. A man has to keep on riding or he is swallowed. — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
In medicine as well as politics, one cannot permit the cure to be worse than the disease. — Michael J. Knowles Copy Share Image
“Perhaps, in that eerily instinctive way in which he always grasped the difference between the essential and the peripheral, he literally felt in his… — Joseph J. Ellis Copy Share Image
“Love often requires sacrifice, my dear. To answer your question, only a man in full control of his emotions can hope to survive the… — Tim Tigner Copy Share Image
Power is poison. Its effect on Presidents has been always tragic, chiefly as an almost indecent excitement at first, and a worse reaction afterwards;… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
The whole framework of the presidency is getting out of hand. It's come to the point where you almost can't run unless you can… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
To want to become the President is, I think, such a bizarre ambition that it is automatically deranging. — John Hodgman Copy Share Image
I have the utmost confidence in General Mattis, General Flynn, General Kelly, Dan Coates. I couldn't have picked a better team. And so I'm… — John McCain Copy Share Image
Washington is a Hollywood for ugly people. Hollywood is a Washington for the simpleminded. — John McCain Copy Share Image
I think that it's important that we understand the importance of the Hispanic vote in America. — John McCain Copy Share Image
I will not agree to have this bill [to repeal DADT ] go forward, because our economy is in the tank. — John McCain Copy Share Image
I don't know a politician who enjoys fundraising. The system is such that the American people have lost faith. — John McCain Copy Share Image
It is perhaps my greatest hope, Mr. President, that some day we'll consider tax and spending measures with no one else in mind but… — John McCain Copy Share Image
This kind of horror has become all too familiar to us. As parents, Cindy and I offer our prayers to the memory of the… — John McCain Copy Share Image
Thousands of Americans have given their lives in Afghanistan and Iraq upholding their oaths and defending this nation. Chelsea Manning broke her oath and… — John McCain Copy Share Image
The truth is sometimes a hard pill to swallow. It sometimes causes us difficulties at home and abroad. It is sometimes used by our… — John McCain Copy Share Image
My greatest fear is the Iranians acquire a nuclear weapon and give it to a terrorist organization. And there is a real threat of… — John McCain Copy Share Image
Ambition drives you on, ability certainly helps, but the fickle finger of fate and luck are great things. — Fergus Henderson Copy Share Image
One needs more than ambition and talent to make a success of anything, really. There must be love and a vocation. — Jessye Norman Copy Share Image
I just think my own ambition would not allow me to sit on the gifts that my creator had given me. And so that's… — Janelle Monae Copy Share Image
“I was ambitious and desperate to direct my first film, so I capitulated and blew it. Never again. Never fucking again.” — Craig Ferguson Copy Share Image
I was always attracted most to joining City, and I am pleased to be at such a good club with such a big ambition… — Edin Dzeko Copy Share Image
Work towards your goal and dont watch the post size,its either they hate,or like you.there is no room for both sides. — Isaac Buabeng Copy Share Image
“But young men have not only this frivolous ambition of being thought masters of execution, inciting them on the one hand, but also their… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I almost never have a plan for myself... I'm not ambitious in that way. — Martha Plimpton Copy Share Image
I play for high stakes and given an audience - there is no act too daring or too noble. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image