Alcohol Quote by Rufus Wainwright

A president is supposed to calm the American people with sober decision-making in the national interest.

— Monica Crowley

So much of the presidency is a matter of standing in the path of a Newsham Engine for Quenching Fires, opening one's mouth, and…

— Thomas Jefferson

What people can't possibly imagine is what it's like to have two presidents who have a relationship as father and son.

— George W. Bush

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

Our national drug is alcohol. We tend to regard the use any other drug with special horror.

— William S. Burroughs

Power is poison. Its effect on Presidents had always been tragic, chiefly as an almost insane excitement at first, and a worse reaction afterwards.

— Henry Adams

“The last thing I ever wanted was to be alive when the three most powerful people on the whole planet would be named Bush,…

— Kurt Vonnegut

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

I spend a great deal of time with the President. We have a very close, personal, loyal relationship. I'm not, as they say, a…

— Dan Quayle

I've never been the president of anything, but I would imagine that in ways it could be a very isolating experience, because you're ensconced…

— Jesmyn Ward

I guess the drinking and the drugs are interesting to me because the way we use them and our society uses them, we kind…

— Craig Finn

If you've heard Hillary Clinton's recent remarks on Ritalin and other drug use on children, you'll find the usual nauseating demagoguery. She appears to…

— Peter Breggin