Presidential Quotes

• 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

• Whatever happened during the French presidential campaign will leave no hard feelings. I perfectly understand why Angela Merkel supported Nicolas Sarkozy because of the action they have taken together, even though I have questioned its results, and because of their shared political sensibility.

  

  Francois Hollande
  • Why
  • Together
  • Political

• Having a friend in the Kremlin would help Trump fulfill his longtime dream of planting his name in the Moscow skyline - a dream that he pursued even as he organized his presidential campaign.

  

  Franklin Foer
  • Help
  • Dream
  • Friend

• The thing is that we live in a presidential system with a parliamentary constitution. Congress has a lot of weight in Brazil, and the president cannot always do when he wants; he does what he can.

  

  Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva
  • Live
  • Presidential

• All of the people who work in the Russian government and Russian presidential administration, in this way or another, work for Vladimir Putin.

  

  Margarita Simonyan
  • People
  • Work
  • Presidential

• A presidential speech is always the work of many hands.

  

  David Frum
  • Work
  • Presidential

• One of the least appealing aspects of modern presidential candidates is that, to avoid saying anything that might prove to be an embarrassing, costly blunder, they cling to a rigid set of talking points that reveal as little as possible about what they really think and who they really are.

  

  David Horsey
  • Presidential

• President Obama is a big supporter of keeping the Internet open. During his presidential campaign, he pledged his support to net neutrality repeatedly.

  

  Marvin Ammori
  • Support
  • Presidential

• Unlike presidential administrations, problems rarely have terminal dates.

  

  Dwight D. Eisenhower
  • Presidential

• If you don't have good people, and you don't have a good process and you don't have, at some level, the basic reverence for [presidential] office, and an understanding of the incredible responsibilities and obligations, then, I think you can get into trouble.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • Good
  • Thinking

• The real truth is that the Obama administration is professional at bullying, as we have witnessed with ACORN at work during the presidential campaign. It seems to me they are sending down their bullies to create fist fights among average American citizens who don't want a government-run health care plan forced upon them.

  

  Jon Voight
  • Work
  • Real
  • Truth

• The man who can look upon a crisis without being willing to offer himself upon the altar of his country is not for public trust.

  

  Millard Fillmore
  • Country
  • Public
  • Willing

• There are indications because of new inventions, that 10, 15, or 20 nations will have a nuclear capacity, including Red China, by the end of the Presidential office in 1964. This is extremely serious. . . I think the fate not only of our own civilization, but I think the fate of world and the future of the human race, is involved in preventing a nuclear war.

  

  John F. Kennedy
  • World
  • War
  • Future

• My use of social media is not Presidential - it’s MODERN DAY PRESIDENTIAL. Make America Great Again!

  

  Donald Trump
  • Great
  • America
  • Presidential

• It is our character that supports the promise of our future - far more than particular government programs or policies.

  

  William Bennett
  • Character
  • Support
  • Promise

• Don't automatically obey Presidential directives if you disagree or if you suspect he hasn't considered key aspects of the issue.

  

  Donald Rumsfeld
  • Presidential

• Do you know what causes low voter turnout in America? It's the result of having the fate of our nation at stake. This began with the bitter presidential election of 1828, which pitted the education, cultivation, and puritan constraint of John Quincy Adams against the yahoo populism of Andrew Jackson, thereby deciding permanently whether America would become a shining city upon a hill or an overlighted strip mall along a highway.

  

  Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath
  • Fate
  • Bitter
  • Election

• I would never want to pass a law limiting freedom of speech, but that doesn't mean we have to condone statements that undermine basic national unity and respect. Imagine being asked to defend a country where some citizens say the man in the White House isn't their president. Or a major presidential contender accuses the commander in chief of not even being a U.S. citizen. Those kinds of statements erode trust in our democracy, and it's up to both parties to publicly reject them. We have to restore confidence that we are a nation that loves and believes in itself.

  

  Sebastian Junger
  • Believe
  • Men
  • Country

• I was at Facebook in 2012, during the previous presidential race. The fact that Facebook could easily throw the election by selectively showing a Get Out the Vote reminder in certain counties of a swing state, for example, was a running joke.

  

  Antonio Garcia Martinez
  • Running
  • Presidential

• He's being held in residential surveillance, which we would normally describe as home detention ... my understanding is it's in Beijing.

  

  Christopher Pyne
  • Home
  • Surveillance
  • Beijing

• Acceptance speeches can make or break presidential candidacies. It was Al Gore's 2000 acceptance speech that relaunched his candidacy and nearly saved him. John Kerry's speech and overall ineffective convention nearly sank him in 2004 (though he was almost saved by the debates).

  

  Chuck Todd
  • Acceptance
  • Presidential

• When all is said and done and the e-book is written about politics and the Internet, it is not going to be about the presidential election. It will be about the smaller elections in aggregate that have a huge effect on people's lives.

  

  Joe Green
  • People
  • Done
  • Book

• We live in a stage of politics, where legislators seem to regard the passage of laws as much more important than the results of their enforcement.

  

  William Howard Taft
  • Important
  • Politics
  • Enforcement

• President Bush was once asked which Presidential speech he admired most. He replied that it was the one Teddy Roosevelt had in his pocket that had helped cushion the blow of a would-be assassin's bullet.

  

  Maureen Dowd
  • President
  • Admiration
  • Blow Admiration

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