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.

  

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

  

  Carles Puigdemont
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• President Reagan has no enemies in the Phillipines.

  

  Ferdinand Marcos
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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?'

  

  Tate Taylor
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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.

  

  Ferdinand Mount
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• We have to confront the very scary fact that the president is a moron. He's really dumb.

  

  Aaron McGruder
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• Fiscal policy is not just, or even not even principally, the purview of the president.

  

  Carly Fiorina
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• President Obama is committed to Hispanics and migrants.

  

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

  

  Dwight D. Eisenhower
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  • Tell
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• Just so you know, we're ashamed the president of the United States is from Texas.

  

  Natalie Maines
  • President
  • Texas
  • Ashamed

• 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.

  

  John Travolta
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• For an American president to be aiding America's enemy in developing nuclear weapons technology is unprecedented, absolutely.

  

  Liz Cheney
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  • America
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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.

  

  Lewis H. Lapham
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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?

  

  Barack Obama
  • Thinking
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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.

  

  Barack Obama
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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.

  

  Barack Obama
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  • Trying

• It's one of the biggest benefits of being president that you really don't think about until you get here.

  

  Barack Obama
  • President
  • Being
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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.

  

  Barack Obama
  • President
  • Principle
  • Convenient

• I saturate freshly washed hair with thickening spray (R+Co). Then, using a Denman/styler brush and my Parlux, I brush and blow-dry the hair all over my head, in every direction, until it's 80 percent dry. This gives atomic body and a great foundation for styling in the morning.

  

  Zoe Foster Blake
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• It was then that she realized that the yellow butterflies preceded the appearances of Mauricio Babilonia.

  

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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• We live in hope of deliverance from the darkness that surrounds us

  

  Paul McCartney The Beatles
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• But there is no use in trying to engraft an opposite nature on one’s own. What I am, that I must be, except as God changes me into His own image. And everything brings me back to that, as my supreme desire. I see more and more that I must be myself what I want my children to be and that I cannot make myself over even for their sakes. This must be His work, and I wonder that it goes on so slowly, that all the disappointments, sorrows, sicknesses I have passed through have left me still selfish, still full of imperfections!

  

  Elizabeth Prentiss
  • God
  • Children
  • Nature

• 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.

  

  Romano Prodi
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  • Individualism