William Howard Taft Quotes

The intoxication of power rapidly sobers off in the knowledge of its restrictions and under the prompt reminder of an ever-present and not always considerate press, as well as the kindly suggestions that not infrequently come from Congress.

William Howard Taft

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• Intoxication
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• During the presidential primaries of 1940, I received a request from the Democratic National Committee to sing God Bless America before the speeches.

  

  Kate Smith
  • God
  • America
  • Presidential

• I have never yet exercised the privilege of voting, but had I been called upon at the last presidential election to do so, I should most certainly have cast my vote for Mr. Clay.

  

  Zachary Taylor
  • Vote
  • Presidential
  • Election

• We often feel a twinge of guilt over our own fascination with presidential candidates' wives - as if we are secretly reading the 'Star' for our campaign information instead of the policy journals.

  

  Naomi Wolf
  • Reading
  • Star
  • Information

• No presidential candidate should visit Las Vegas without condemning organized gambling.

  

  Ralph Nader
  • Should
  • Presidential
  • Vegas

• I never dread going back to Congress.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • Back
  • Going
  • Congress

• There are a number of Americans who shouldn't vote. The number is 57 percent, to judge by the combined total of Clinton and Perot ballots in the 1996 presidential election.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Judge
  • Vote
  • Presidential

• On the other side, I do believe that the rhetoric we are seeing from the Democrats today is unprecedented, is a new low in presidential politics and goes beyond political discourse and amounts to political hate speech.

  

  Ed Gillespie
  • Believe
  • Today
  • Political

• I was elected six times to represent southern Arizona, in the State Legislature and then in Congress.

  

  Gabrielle Giffords
  • Congress
  • Southern
  • Six

• I'm a psychologist. I was a psychology faculty member, and then I became an administrator of the department, then the Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences. At the time of the presidential search, I was the dean.

  

  I. King Jordan
  • Time
  • College
  • Search

• I have to thank the People, the Congress, and the Government of the United States for my liberation.

  

  Lajos Kossuth
  • People
  • Government
  • Congress

• In the '90s, there was scant presidential leadership and insufficient domestic political mobilization for foreign policy grounded in human rights.

  

  Samantha Power
  • Political
  • Leadership
  • Presidential

• As someone who's been covering presidential campaigns since the 1950s, I have no delusions about political reporting. Candidates bargaining access to get the kind of news coverage they want is nothing new.

  

  Dan Rather
  • Want
  • Political
  • Kind

• The authority to declare war rests in Congress, not in an out-of-control president.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • War
  • Control
  • Authority

• Sooner or later, I need to begin to do what any candidate does in a presidential race; I need to begin to win.

  

  Lamar Alexander
  • Win
  • Need
  • Race

• Let me make the newspapers, and I care not what is preached in the pulpit or what is enacted in Congress.

  

  Wendell Phillips
  • Me
  • Care
  • Congress

• The number of American presidential candidates varies with the sunspot cycle and the phases of the moon.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • American
  • Moon
  • Presidential

• Directing plays lacked the immediacy and connection to real world events that journalism offered; journalism lacked the drama, theatricality and subjective storytelling of theater. It wasn't until I had the idea of making a documentary film about the 1992 presidential campaign that these two passions came together in 'The War Room.'

  

  R. J. Cutler
  • World
  • Real
  • War

• Ever since I've been in Congress, various groups on the business side, those entities that are creating jobs out there, have felt that the Clean Air Act is really - that there are all sorts of presumptions in favor of the environmentalists.

  

  Ed Whitfield
  • Business
  • Air
  • Creating

• I - look, I, you know, I find Donald Trump completely un-presidential, unacceptable. I don't like his methods. I don't think he's got any policies.

  

  Ana Navarro
  • Trump
  • Presidential

• California, where the anti-Chinese racism was greatest, became a very crucial swing state during presidential elections, and therefore both parties had to court California.

  

  Iris Chang
  • Chinese
  • California
  • Racism

• My dad is the type of person that says yes to life, and to the adventures it throws at you. Because of that, he never forced me into a particular career, or had wild expectations for me; his concern was simply that I was fulfilled and happy.

  

  MyAnna Buring
  • Persons
  • Expectations
  • Concern

• Every time I see a bluebird, I say, well, hey, all this hard work is all worth while.

  

  Bill Vaughan
  • Time
  • Work

• God loves you and everything about you, so why beat up on your precious self.

  

  Nicole Ari Parker-Kodjoe
  • God
  • Love
  • For Her

• The intoxication of power rapidly sobers off in the knowledge of its restrictions and under the prompt reminder of an ever-present and not always considerate press, as well as the kindly suggestions that not infrequently come from Congress.

  

  William Howard Taft
  • Presidential
  • Congress
  • Intoxication