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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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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John Howard turned the prime ministership into something like a state police minister. He's at the scene of every crime, twice a day on radio, the guy did no thinking.
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A man called, wanting to borrow a rope. "You cannot have it," said Nasrudin. "Why not?" "Because it is in use." "But I can see it just lying there, on the ground." "That's right: that's its use."
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I'm not so weird to me.
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Going back to the noir fiction of the 30s, 40s and 50s. It's very contemporary.
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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.
