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 agree that the two-party system stomps on any kind of competition. A great first step is to open the presidential debates to all qualified candidates, including the Libertarians. If that happens, the Libertarian party will experience unprecedented growth.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Great
  • Experience
  • Party

• 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

• People have to learn who they are - you can't have somebody else telling you who you are.

  

  Hale Irwin
  • People
  • You
  • Learn

• The pilots I did test for, I was the only black actor testing against white actors for parts that were written white.

  

  J. August Richards
  • Black
  • Actor
  • Test

• I'm a visual person, so it always starts with a picture, and then I get obsessed with the idea, sometimes too much. I have these blank books in which I take notes, and I add postcards and other physical items.

  

  Peter Sis
  • Picture

• I used to say to my bubbe, 'Bubbe, is this story true?' And she'd say, 'Of course it's true! But it may not have happened.' What my bubbe was saying is profound: All stories are true. The truth is the journey you take through it - did it make you laugh, cry, seek and want justice? Then it's true.

  

  Patricia Polacco
  • Truth
  • True
  • Justice

• 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