Quotes on presidency
Anyone that wants the presidency so much that he'll spend two years organizing and campaigning for it is not to be trusted with the office.
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David Broder Quotes
I think he [George W. Bush] has a warm, engaging personality. But, you know, the presidency is more than just a popularity contest.
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Al Gore Quotes
The Vice-Presidency is sort of like the last cookie on the plate. Everybody insists he won't take it, but somebody always does.
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Bill Vaughan Quotes
I think the presidency is an institution over which you have temporary custody.
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Ronald Reagan Quotes
Clinton/Gore is to the presidency as Beavis & Butthead are to television.
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Unknown Author Quotes
I began by telling the president that there was a cancer growing on the presidency and that if the cancer was not removed ... the president himself would be killed by it.
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John Dean Quotes
We have entered the era of the 'imperial' former presidency with lavish libraries, special staffs and benefits, around-the-clock Secret Service protection for life and other badges of privilege.
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Lawton Chiles Quotes
Beguiled by George S. Bush's easy smile and casual indifference to the details, we are on the brink of electing him to office. This isn't choosing a president, it's casting the lead in a sitcom about the presidency.
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Roger Ebert Quotes
No man will ever bring out of the Presidency the reputation which carries him into it... To myself, personally, it brings nothing but increasing drudgery and daily loss of friends.
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Thomas Jefferson Quotes
See, one of the interesting things in the Oval Office - I love to bring people into the Oval Office - right around the corner from here - and say, this is where I office, but I want you to know the office is always bigger than the person.
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George W. Bush Quotes
I am mindful not only of preserving executive powers for myself, but for predecessors as well.
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George W. Bush Quotes
I have come to the conclusion that the 22nd Amendment limiting the presidency to two terms was a mistake. Shouldn't the people have the right to vote for someone as many times as they want to vote for him
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Ronald Reagan Quotes
That sucking sound? The Clinton presidency being flushed in '96!
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Unknown Author Quotes
The presidency has made every man who occupied it, no matter how small, bigger than he was and no matter how big, not big enough for its demands.
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Lyndon B. Johnson Quotes
The presidency is temporary-but the family is permanent.
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Yvonne De Gaulle Quotes
You can always get the truth from a politician after he has turned seventy, or given up all hope of the Presidency.
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Joe Moore Quotes
I have never been a quitter. To leave office before my term is completed is opposed to every instinct in my body. But as president I must put the interests of America first ... Therefore, I shall resign the presidency effective at noon tomorrow.
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Richard M. Nixon Quotes
Well, it's an unimaginable honor to be the president during the Fourth of July of this country. It means what these words say, for starters. The great inalienable rights of our country. We're blessed with such values in America. And I - it's - I'm a proud man to be the nation based upon such wonderful values.
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George W. Bush Quotes