Eduardo Ermita 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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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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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 Reagan has no enemies in the Phillipines.
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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.
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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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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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Of course the UN brings in a lot of moral authority.
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Welcome to President Bush, Mrs. Bush, and my fellow astronauts.
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Defending Congressional authority should not be a partisan issue.
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I was the network president. I thought I knew everything.
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God is the foundation of all authority, He exercises that foundation because He is the author and the owner of His creation. He is the foundation upon which all other authority stands or falls.
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When Dwight Eisenhower became president, I personally was delighted. I thought that that was a very good thing.
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I was a constitutional law professor, which means unlike the current president I actually respect the Constitution.
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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.
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No man has any natural authority over his fellow men.
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Hillary Clinton announced she's running for president. Yesterday in Ohio, Hillary popped into a Chipotle and she ordered a burrito bowl with chips and salsa. And on her way out she said, 'That locks down the Hispanic vote.'
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When justices seize authority from the other branches of the federal government, as well as state and local governments, under the rubric of judicial review, that’s tyranny.
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Different regions may require different strategies, as President Bush has noted, but not different basic principles. It's either collective security or selective security.
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The daily quota I've set for myself is 500 words or approximately a page and a half double-spaced. Which isn't much, except that I'm extremely slow, extremely meticulous. 'Le mot juste' haunts me. On a good day, I will finally secrete the 500th word at about 5 o'clock, and I'll reward myself by going to Housing Works Bookstore to read.
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Colour is, on the evidence of language alone, very bound up with the feelings.
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We put authors on such a pedestal, and it's a moment that humanizes the whole thing, and lends an absurdity to what otherwise is a "please sit with your hands on your lap" kind of event.
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They have to get authority from the President through their department heads.
