Dwight D. Eisenhower Quotes

There is one thing about being President - nobody can tell you when to sit down.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

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• We approach closer and closer to socialism.

  

  B. Carroll Reece
  • Approach
  • Socialism
  • Closer

• I was born in Bradford, a city in the north of England that God forgot about. A place where most people never leave, but if they do, they certainly never go back.

  

  Natalia Kills
  • People
  • God
  • City

• If I'm elected president, let me tell you about my first day in office. The first thing I intend to do is to rescind every illegal and unconstitutional executive action taken by Barack Obama.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Action
  • President
  • Barack Obama

• When distant and unfamiliar and complex things are communicated to great masses of people, the truth suffers a considerable and often a radical distortion. The complex is made over into the simple, the hypothetical into the dogmatic, and the relative into an absolute.

  

  Walter Lippmann
  • People
  • Great
  • Truth

• In the villages in Europe, there are still healers who tell stories.

  

  Yannick Noah
  • Tell
  • Still
  • Villages

• Out of the 72 kids that I went to high school with, I still talk to 25 of them on a fairly regular basis. Seven of my classmates live in L.A., and five of them are in the entertainment business, and we constantly talk and play fantasy football together.

  

  Ike Barinholtz
  • Live
  • School
  • Business

• Pinochet and Barack Obama both have the same primary goal, and that's to be president and stay president as long as allowed.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Long
  • Goal
  • President

• It's such a relief to see Catholic and Protestant ministers getting on - that's so rare. And in 'I'd Do Anything,' I've had so much support from folks back home, no matter what side they're on.

  

  Rachel Tucker
  • Home
  • Support
  • See

• As president, I have the right to call a referendum based on a law that the Catalan parliament has approved.

  

  Carles Puigdemont
  • Law
  • President
  • Call

• The passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 represented precisely such a hope - that America had learned from its past and acted to secure a better tomorrow.

  

  Aberjhani
  • America
  • Hope
  • Past

• Sometimes I will tweet an interview I have coming up and ask my followers what questions they have for the celebrity. I feel that way I can really know first hand what people want to hear answered.

  

  Nancy O'Dell
  • People
  • Up
  • Want

• It's not about what you tell the reader, it's about what you conceal.

  

  Dan Brown
  • You
  • Reader
  • Tell

• Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Truth
  • Man
  • Tell

• I don't really believe in stories, only in the people who tell them.

  

  Rachel Cusk
  • People
  • Believe
  • Tell

• I met this woman who was a hundred, this housekeeper, a hundred years old. I interviewed her. She just told me about her whole life. She's like, 'I can't read, I can't write; I can tell you who I was working for, and I can tell you the year, but who was president?'

  

  Tate Taylor
  • Life
  • Woman
  • Write

• If I could sew comedy and philosophy together, then I've done a good job. The primary goal is always going to be laughs and the secondary goal is always going to be saying something without it being a lecture.

  

  Hal Sparks
  • Good
  • Done
  • Job

• Real acting is about giving people an insight into a person, letting the audience in.

  

  Baltasar Kormakur
  • People
  • Real
  • Giving

• I have been chastised by a president, I have antagonized and angered presidents, and I have taken on my own leadership.

  

  Xavier Becerra
  • Taken
  • Leadership
  • President

• An Associated Press report called the President's antics 'Bible-thumping politics.' Clinton's message was decidedly religious and partisan, as was Governor's Cuomo's remarks as he 'also cited religious themes and maxims.' Why didn't the press, the ACLU, and People for the American Way cry foul?

  

  Gary DeMar
  • People
  • Christian
  • President

• Talking to each other instead of talking about each other is not some kind of nicey-nice (ph) idea. It's the difference between societies falling apart and societies getting something wonderful done.

  

  Elizabeth Lesser
  • Idea
  • Wonderful
  • Societies

• There is one thing about being President - nobody can tell you when to sit down.

  

  Dwight D. Eisenhower
  • President
  • Tell
  • Sit Down