Harry S Truman Quotes
Being President is a little bit like riding a tiger. You have to keep riding, or else you will be swallowed up by it!
Quotes to Explore
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The President's post should not be politicised. Once a president is elected, he is above politics.
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Barack Obama would not be President if he were dark skin. You know what I mean? That's just the truth. I might not be as successful as I am now if I was dark skin.
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Pinochet and Barack Obama both have the same primary goal, and that's to be president and stay president as long as allowed.
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President Mandela was not a hands-on president at any time.
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At Tiger Stadium, the dugouts are so low that you walk in and hit your head on the ceiling. People would say, 'Don't feel bad. Ty Cobb did the same thing.'
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In waking a tiger, use a long stick.
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President Reagan has no enemies in the Phillipines.
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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?'
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The president is being denounced for not taking the kind of pre-emptive action in Afghanistan that he has been so passionately denounced for taking in Iraq. Damned if he does and damned if he doesn't.
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I'm the president of the United States. I'm not the emperor of the United States.
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We have to confront the very scary fact that the president is a moron. He's really dumb.
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When I was in high school, there's no doubt I was trying to swing like Tiger Woods when he first came on tour.
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I have been chastised by a president, I have antagonized and angered presidents, and I have taken on my own leadership.
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I read that my lifelong dream is to serve as speaker with Hillary Clinton as president. So what?
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Obama might as well be president of Turkey or Brazil; it does not matter. It's the system that is absolutely flawed, where 25 or 35 or 50 people make multi, multi-billions on building Olympic structures while people live in Barbados and have no roads or clean drinking water. There's something pretty inequitable there.
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I have to make things right with Tiger first before anything else.
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Tiger parenting is all about raising independent, creative, courageous kids. In America today, there's a dangerous tendency to romanticize creativity in a way that may undermine it.
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To me, Arnold was a pioneer in the spirit of Thomas Edison or Benjamin Franklin, while Tiger is a pioneer in the spirit of Bill Gates.
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Only a dreamer or a fool would pick a stock at random and expect it to take off like a space ship from its launching pad. Certainly this has happened - about as often as a dime-store clerk has become a Hollywood star or a boy born in a log cabin has been elected President of the United States - just often enough, that is, to keep alive the Great American Dream.
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Where the senses fail us, reason must step in.
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For political and bureaucratic reasons, governments at all levels are telling far less to the public than to insiders about how to prepare for and behave in the initial chaos of a mass-casualty event.
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It is open. It will remain secular and apolitical.
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It's dark and it's divisive - deporting 11 million people, talking about law and order, calling every group of people in America names, talking about cutting taxes on the wealthy, feeling like Donald Trump can bring more nuclear weapons into the world - I mean, everything he's talked about is a form of change.
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Being President is a little bit like riding a tiger. You have to keep riding, or else you will be swallowed up by it!
