Romano Prodi Quotes
I am not a newcomer, you know, so I want to be judged for what I did when I was prime minister last time in Italy and president of the European Commission for more than five years.
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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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As president, I have the right to call a referendum based on a law that the Catalan parliament has approved.
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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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We have to confront the very scary fact that the president is a moron. He's really dumb.
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Fiscal policy is not just, or even not even principally, the purview of the president.
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President Obama is committed to Hispanics and migrants.
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There is one thing about being President - nobody can tell you when to sit down.
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Just so you know, we're ashamed the president of the United States is from Texas.
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I feel very fortunate for audiences to have been so gracious as to allow me to do pretty much any role that I felt I could do. They let me play a president. They let me play a lawyer. They let me play a hit man. They let me play a father. They let me play Howard Saint.
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For an American president to be aiding America's enemy in developing nuclear weapons technology is unprecedented, absolutely.
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Except in a few well-publicized instances (enough to lend credence to the iconography painted on the walls of the media), the rigorous practice of rugged individualism usually leads to poverty, ostracism and disgrace. The rugged individualist is too often mistaken for the misfit, the maverick, the spoilsport, the sore thumb.
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You know, one of the things I think you understand as president is you're held responsible for everything, but you don't always have control of everything, right?
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To the extent that we've got a fiscal crisis right now, part of it is prompted by a bullheaded insistence on the part of the president, for example, that we should extend all of his tax cuts, make all of them permanent.
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I'm about to embark on what may be as important as an initiative as anything I do as President, trying to nudge the world in the direction of doing something serious about climate change.
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It's one of the biggest benefits of being president that you really don't think about until you get here.
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My guiding principle as president has been to try to do the right thing even when it's not politically convenient.
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Freedom, individualism and being yourself so long as you don't hurt another's physical person or property: The true artist is a man who believes absolutely in himself, because he is absolutely himself.
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I am afraid I am a constant disappointment to my party. The fact of the matter is, the longer I am President the less of a party man I seem to become.
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The good stupid is the brave kind. When there's a real reason behind. Bad stupid is everything else.
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I play the sax, piano, guitar, bass... I started as a kid with piano lessons.
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You might like it as a joke or because you liked it then, but there isn't a whole new generation discovering Wham!.
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I am not a newcomer, you know, so I want to be judged for what I did when I was prime minister last time in Italy and president of the European Commission for more than five years.
