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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Presidents come and go, and even parties come to and away from power. But the main policy tack does not change.
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I sometimes think that when he was at Harvard Law School, Mr. Obama cut class the day they got to the separation of powers, 'cause he seems to consider it not just an inconvenience but an indignity that, although he got 270 electoral votes and therefore gets to be president, he didn't get everything.
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The great thing is to last and get your work done and see and hear and learn and understand; and write when there is something that you know; and not before, and not too damned much after.
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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!
