Terry Sanford Quotes
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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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President Obama has contempt for real money.
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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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So my one kid's 4, my other kid's 4 months, I'm 44, Barack Obama is the 44th president - it's all lining up nicely here.
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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 Mandela was not a hands-on president at any time.
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President Reagan has no enemies in the Phillipines.
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If I have any advice to give to the Syrian president it is to cooperate for the sake of the investigation or for the sake of uncovering the truth.
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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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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 tend to agree with many aspects of President Obama's policies.
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I was the network president. I thought I knew everything.
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It's been President Clinton's dream that we'll have finally a fully integrated Europe.
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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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President Obama and Secretary Clinton created a vacuum the way they got out of Iraq, because they got out - what, they shouldn't have been in, but once they got in, the way they got out was a disaster. And ISIS was formed.
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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 think that's what we don't understand as human beings is this is America. It's a democracy. Once we get whoever we want into the White House, even the person we want to get in the White House doesn't get in the White House. We have every right to not only criticize that person but demand that person does what it is we need to get done. That just happens with us mobilizing and us using our voices to talk to the mayors, the governors and the presidents.
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The two most common charges against the older fiction, that it pleased wickedly and that it taught nothing, had broken down before the discovery, except in illiberal sects, that the novel is fitted both for honest use and for pleasure.
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Humor is one of the most serious tools we have for dealing with impossible situations.
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The drafters of the Constitution... wisely put restraints on the president.
