Richard V. Allen Quotes

'Favoritism' is always a factor, and pressure always build for the appointment of friends of influential supporters of the President, or for the nominees of powerful Member of Congress from the incoming President's party.

Richard V. Allen

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• The President's post should not be politicised. Once a president is elected, he is above politics.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Politics
  • President
  • Once

• I never dread going back to Congress.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • Back
  • Going
  • Congress

• 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.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
  • Up
  • President
  • Here

• 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
  • Long
  • Goal
  • President

• I think 'In The Heat Of The Night' was one of the most influential films on me. Looking back now, I can see how influential it was on my screenwriting because here you have what looks to be a crime procedural, and it's actually a study in race and loneliness, and a perception of an era.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • Study
  • Crime
  • Loneliness

• That's the premise of the Saudi Arabians. He's holding the president's hand with one. In the other hand, he's got his hand in the pocket of American consumers.

  

  Ed Markey
  • American
  • Hand
  • President

• 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
  • Life
  • Woman
  • Write

• I have been chastised by a president, I have antagonized and angered presidents, and I have taken on my own leadership.

  

  Xavier Becerra
  • Taken
  • Leadership
  • President

• I was the network president. I thought I knew everything.

  

  Warren Littlefield
  • Thought
  • President
  • Knew

• 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.

  

  Al Jourgensen 1000 Homo DJs
  • People
  • Live
  • President

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

  

  Dwight D. Eisenhower
  • President
  • Tell
  • Sit Down

• As a concerned American citizen, I apologize to President Bush (news - web sites) because my remark was disrespectful. I feel that whoever holds that office should be treated with the utmost respect.

  

  Natalie Maines
  • American
  • Respect
  • President

• I cannot believe the president searched the country and was unable to find a qualified female nominee, ... More likely, he was unable to find a qualified female nominee who satisfied that far right wing of the Republican Party.

  

  Barbara Mikulski
  • Believe
  • Country
  • Party

• The President never intends to get into any kind of war situation. He gets carried away by events.

  

  Alan Alda
  • War
  • President
  • Situation

• I'm already suspicious of anyone who thinks he or she is smart enough to be president. You'd have to have some ego to believe that about yourself.

  

  Andy Rooney
  • Believe
  • Smart
  • President

• If a new president personalizes a rather different concept of America and a different sense of America's mission in the world than has been the case with president George W. Bush, then that almost automatically will help to improve America's global image. But the tangibles involving the war and the economy are not going to be easy to fix.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • World
  • Different
  • America

• I was a constitutional law professor, which means unlike the current president I actually respect the Constitution.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Law
  • Respect
  • Mean

• Every president who has tried to bring about big changes I think elicits the most passionate responses.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Thinking
  • President
  • Passionate

• Audie Murphy remains a shining example for anyone who believes in the importance of service, for generations now and into the future.

  

  Rick Perry
  • Future
  • Service
  • Example

• The point is that you see candidates running in these different kinds of contests. A primary shows you something that's different from a state party convention, which shows you something that is different than what a caucus shows you.

  

  Michael Beschloss
  • Different
  • Candidates
  • Conventions

• My father believed strongly, and taught me, that you can't let yourself get too high on a success or too low on a failure. In this volatile business, that's useful to know.

  

  Samuel Goldwyn, Jr.
  • Business
  • High
  • Father

• Most, actually, German actors have like some speaking of French. So, the French wasn't the problem. But, I was having a problem with them doing my dialogue in English. And it wasn't a matter of fluency.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • English
  • German

• I've carried on, in that same tradition, with my kids. Aside from just his brilliance, in my estimation, I think he had one of the great imaginations of the 20th century. One of the reasons why the tradition carries on, all these years later, is because, as a parent, those are the books that you go to and pull off the shelf because they never stop delighting you.

  

  Christopher Meledandri
  • Thinking
  • Book
  • Kids

• 'Favoritism' is always a factor, and pressure always build for the appointment of friends of influential supporters of the President, or for the nominees of powerful Member of Congress from the incoming President's party.

  

  Richard V. Allen
  • President
  • Congress
  • Influential