Quotes and Sayings About President
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All I ever wanted to be president of was the American League.
-- A. Bartlett Giamatti -
The fighter (like the writer) must stand alone. If he loses he cannot call an executive conference and throw off on a vice president or the assistant sales manager. He is consequently resented by fractional characters who cannot live outside an organization.
-- A. J. LieblingSource : A. J. Liebling (2014). “The Sweet Science”, p.5, Macmillan
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We have to confront the very scary fact that the president is a moron. He's really dumb.
-- Aaron McGruder -
THURSDAY, APRIL 5, 1894... I met with the Quorum and Presidency in the temple... President Woodruff then spoke... 'In searching out my genealogy I found about four hundred of my female kindred who were never married. I asked Pres. Young what I should do with them. He said for me to have them sealed to me unless there were more than 999 of them. The doctrine startled me, but I had it done.
-- Abraham H. Cannon -
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The Presidents Woodruff and Smith both said they were willing for such a ceremony to occur, if done in Mexico, and Pres. Woodruff promised the Lord's blessing to follow such an act.
-- Abraham H. Cannon -
There are no accidents in my philosophy. Every effect must have its cause. The past is the cause of the present, and the present will be the cause of the future. All these are links in the endless chain stretching from the finite to the infinite.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
Rituals, anthropologists will tell us, are about transformation. The rituals we use for marriage, baptism or inaugurating a president are as elaborate as they are because we associate the ritual with a major life passage, the crossing of a critical threshold, or in other words, with transformation.
-- Abraham Verghese -
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Shakespeare was a smart dude. He was the president of Rome.
-- Adam DeVine -
Mr President, I have decided not to speak the entire speech which I have.
-- Afonso Van-Dunem -
When I talk about the assets, that was at the beginning of the talks. I was president then. I'm not president now. When I said it, this would be a sign of goodwill to begin the talks.
-- Akbar Hashemi RafsanjaniSource : "Iran's ex-president: U.S should show goodwill". Interview with Barbara Slavin, usatoday30.usatoday.com. February 6, 2005.
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Some of George W. Bush's friends say that Bush believes God called him to be president during these times of trial. But God told me that He/She/It had actually chosen Al Gore by making sure that Gore won the popular vote and, God thought, the Electoral College. 'That worked for everyone else,' God said.
-- Al Franken -
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I pledge to you today that as president, in my first budget, I will introduce the largest increase in special education ever.
-- Al Gore -
Well, the title "An Inconvenient Truth" is a way of highlighting the reasons why some people, including the president, don't seem to accept the truth.
-- Al Gore -
A president who breaks the law is a threat to the very structure of our government.
-- Al Gore -
While President Bush likes to project an image of strength and courage, the real truth is that in the presence of his large financial contributors, he is a moral coward.
-- Al Gore -
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I won vice president of my student body in high school. That doesn't mean anything.
-- Al Sharpton -
Somebody had to bring the truth to the doorstep of this president.
-- Al Sharpton -
If the only obstacle to the renewal and modernization of France is a choice of personnel, I am completely convinced that the president will make the right choice, .. What is at stake is not Alain Juppe but France.
-- Alain Juppe -
The person you call 'President Obama" and I frankly refuse to call him that... at the moment, he is somebody who is kind of an 'alleged usurper' who is alleged to be someone who is occupying that office without constitutional warrant to do so.
-- Alan Keyes -
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No, I'm not interested in developing a powerful brain. All I'm after is just a mediocre brain, something like the President of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company.
-- Alan TuringSource : Quoted in Andrew Hodges, Alan Turing: The Enigma of Intelligence (1983)
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We want to determine whether he understands the inherent limits that make an unelected Judiciary inferior to Congress or the President in making policy judgments. That, for example, a judge will never be in the best position to know what is in the national security interests of our country.
-- Alberto Gonzales -
I wanted to be president of the United States. I really did. The older I get, the less preposterous the idea seems.
-- Alec BaldwinSource : "Baldwin on the Brink". Interview with Charles Kaiser, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 1989.
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My message to the Americans, to the American President, is that I am coming from Poland, which is in good shape; it is much different than ten years ago when last state visit from Poland was here in the United States.
-- Aleksander Kwasniewski -
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So I think that I can say, as the President of Poland, we're proud that I am coming from Poland, which is different and what's more important, much better than before.
-- Aleksander Kwasniewski -
You know, it's very clear, as one looks back on history again of the Cold War that, following the crisis in Cuba, following the Khrushchev - beating down of Jack Kennedy in Vienna, that President Kennedy believed that we had to join the battle for the Third World, and the next crisis that developed in that regards was Vietnam.
-- Alexander Haig -
I'm the only American alive or dead who presided unhappily over the removal of a vice president and a president.
-- Alexander Haig -
Sooner or later something had to give. But President Bush, faced with the unprecedented affront of 9-11, could not wait to take action. So he had to do what we were capable of doing, and he did it brilliantly.
-- Alexander Haig -
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But might not his [the president's] nomination be overruled? I grant it might, yet this could only be to make place for another nomination by himself. The person ultimately appointed must be object of his preference, though perhaps not in the first degree. It is also not very probable that his nomination would often be overruled.
-- Alexander Hamilton -
The [president] has no particle of spiritual jurisdiction. . . .
-- Alexander Hamilton