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Quotes about President
When the president does it, that means it is not illegal.
I hereby resign this office of president of the United States.
As President Nixon says, presidents can do almost anything, and President Nixon has done many things that nobody would have thought of doing.
I'm President of the United States, and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli!
I'm Jimmy Carter, and I'm going to be your next president.
You really have to experience the feeling of being with the president in the oval office. . . . It's a disease I came to call Ovalitis.
No easy problems ever come to the President of the United States. If they are easy to solve, somebody else has solved them.
The President is merely the most important among a large number of public servants. He should be supported or opposed exactly to the degree which is warranted by his good conduct or bad conduct, his efficiency or inefficiency in rendering loyal, able, and disinterested service to the nation as a whole. Therefore it is absolutely necessary that there should be full liberty to tell the truth about his acts, and this means that it is exactly as necessary to blame him when he does wrong as to praise him when he does right. Any other attitude in an American citizen is both base and servile. To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public. Nothing but the truth should be spoken about him or any one else. But it is even more important to tell the truth, pleasant or unpleasant, about him than about any one else.
The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep.
In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.
President means chief servant.
When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe.
The American presidency will demand more than ringing manifestos issued from the rear of the battle. It will demand that the President place himself in the very thick of the fight; that he care passionately about the fate of the people he leads ...
My most fervent prayer is to be a President who can make it possible for every boy in this land to grow to manhood by loving his country--instead of dying for it.
If you use your office as you would a private trust, and the moneys as trust funds, if you faithfully perform your duty, we, the people, may put you in the Presidential chair.
The American people would not want to know of any misquotes that Dan Quayle may or may not make. â¢Vice President Dan Quayle Quoting: the act of repeating erroneously the words of another. â¢Ambrose Bierce You could compile the worst book in the world entirely out of selected passages from the best writes in the world.
Sir, I would rather be right than be President.
In America any boy may become President and I suppose it's just one of the risks he takes.
It would have been as though he [President Andrew Johnson] were in a boat of stone with masts of steel, sails of lead, ropes of iron, the devil at the helm, the wrath of God for a breeze, and hell for his destination.
Ah, isn't that nice, the wife of the Cambridge president is kissing the cox of the Oxford crew.
When I was a small boy growing up in Kansas, a friend of mine and I went fishing and as we sat there in the warmth of a summer afternoon on a riverbank we talked about what we wanted to do when we grew up. I told him that I wanted to be a real major-league baseball player, a genuine professional like Honus Wagner. My friend said that he'd like to be President of the United States. Neither of us got our wish.
When 100+ CEOs from top companies from around the world are on the wait list, that is 'stress!' So anything a manager can do to help one's colleagues is a must to survive. Paul J. Rosch, M.D., F.A.C.P., President of the American Institute of Stress, and Clinical Professor of Medicine and Psychiatry, New York Medical College -Wolfgang Hultner.
Following his brief inaugural address to the Congress, President George Washington and his party walked over to St. Paul's Church for divine services. His prayer that afternoon was: 'Almighty God, we make our earnest prayer that Thou wilt incline the hearts of the citizens to cultivate a spirit of subordination and obedience to government; to entertain a brotherly affection and love for one another and for their fellow-citizens of the United States at large.'
In his address of 19 September 1796, given as he prepared to leave office, President George Washington spoke about the importance of morality to the country's well-being: Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, Religion and Morality are indispensable supports.... And let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion.... Can it be that Providence has not connected the permanent felicity of a Nation with its virtue?
The new constitution established a president with powers unheard of in the republican United States. Some even wanted him to be king, a thought that GW found ludicrous: What astonishing changes a few years are capable of producing! I am told that even respectable characters speak of a monarchical form of government without horror. From thinking proceeds speaking, thence to acting is often but a single step. But how irrevocable and tremendous! What a triumph for the advocates of despotism to find that we are incapable of governing ourselves, and that systems founded on the basis of equal liberty are merely ideal & fallacious!
