Presidential Quotes
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The vice presidential candidate does not usually make much difference at the polls. But that may be changing as voters become more aware that the understudy must be ready to take over if needed.
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Nowhere has the political power of coal been more obvious than in presidential campaigns.
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As a presidential candidate, Mr. Trump is going to get tough questions from the press and has to answer them.
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Bill Clinton's legacy on job creation should be assailed by none and admired by every presidential candidate who hopes to do the same.
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If we celebrate Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday at a time of presidential inaugurals, this is thanks to Ronald Reagan who created the holiday, and not to the Democratic Congress of the Carter years, which rejected it.
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In the '90s, there was scant presidential leadership and insufficient domestic political mobilization for foreign policy grounded in human rights.
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As lawmakers, we must assure the people of America that our nation will not experience the nightmare of the 2000 presidential election.
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The first presidential election I really paid attention to was in 1988 when George H. W. Bush ran against Michael Dukakis.
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In the final analysis this congressional race is always going to be a close race, whether there's a presidential race or governor's race or not. But is this a better year? Yes, this would probably be a better year.
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Sooner or later, I need to begin to do what any candidate does in a presidential race; I need to begin to win.
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U.S. nuclear weapons that are available for presidential use are targeted against broad ocean areas.
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Education never quite gets the attention it deserves in presidential campaigns, but monster flip-flops surely do.
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I will not be collateral damage in a presidential campaign, nor will I be a woman bullied by Hillary Clinton.
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The number of American presidential candidates varies with the sunspot cycle and the phases of the moon.
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Of all presidential perks, the pardon power has a special significance. It is just the kind of authority that would attract the special attention of someone obsessed with himself and his own ability to influence events.
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Republican presidential debates have become contests of who can terrify viewers the most.
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A libertarian presidential candidate isn't going to win anyway, so he can afford to say that all taxation is theft, and it isn't the job of a libertarian presidential candidate to cook up new ways to commit theft.
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Political pandering comes in all shapes and sizes, but every four years the presidential primary bring us in contact with its purest form - praising ethanol subsidies amid the corn fields of Iowa.
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As you can imagine I'm disappointed as anything that I was not selected to be the presidential running mate. And I find it continually appalling that it would be a radical thing to have a woman on the ticket.
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The age of Lincoln and Jefferson memorials is over. It will be presidential libraries from now on.
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Stubbornness is a positive quality of presidential leadership - if you're right about what you're stubborn about.
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Cross the wrong state border with your gun, or wake up one morning to new legislation or a new presidential executive order, and suddenly you're the bad guy, not the good guy. No wonder some gun owners seem so touchy; they feel, at some level, like criminals in waiting.
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When I joined Bill Clinton's start-up presidential campaign in 1991, I was confident that women would play an ever more important role, but I never gave a minute's thought to what would happen if we won. When we did - and I became the first woman to serve as White House press secretary - it changed my life. But it didn't change the world.
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Even at the end of a presidential election campaign, we have no way to know what Mitt Romney really believes.
