Presidential Quotes

• Al Gore adopted three utterly different personas in three national presidential debates.

  

  Rich Lowry
  • Different
  • Presidential
  • Persona

• I think that less presidential interference the better.

  

  Chuck Grassley
  • Presidential

• 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

• If this isn't the Fat Lady singing, it's awful close to that. If Ari seriously thought she was a contender for the presidential nomination, he would not walk away right now.

  

  Stuart Rothenberg
  • Singing
  • Presidential
  • Awful

• Under the system that we now have to nominate presidential candidates, for instance, I would prefer that we have a system that is closer to, say, the one we had in the 1960s.

  

  Michael Beschloss
  • Presidential
  • Candidate
  • Instance

• If God himself was not willing to use coercion to force man to accept certain religious views, man, uninspired and liable to error, ought not to use the means that Jehovah would not employ.

  

  William Jennings Bryan
  • Men
  • Mean
  • Religious

• 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

• The people of South Carolina support conservatives who are trying to push real change, and the people of South Carolina expect their presidential candidates to back them up when they show courage.

  

  Nikki Haley
  • People
  • Real
  • Trying

• Unlike any other nation, here the people rule, and their will is the supreme law. It is sometimes sneeringly said by those who do not like free government, that here we count heads. True, heads are counted, but brains also . . .

  

  William McKinley
  • People
  • Brain
  • Sometimes

• This wasn’t just an attack against the Boston Marathon... It was an attack against the American public and our democratic use of the streets. We have used our public roadways for annual parades, protest marches, presidential inaugurations, marathons, and all manner of other events. The roads belong to us, and their use represents an important part of our free and democratic tradition.

  

  Amby Burfoot
  • Important
  • Tradition
  • March

• The politics of crime is not about a party's record or a candidates proposals, but about perceived character and values.

  

  Susan Estrich
  • Character
  • Values
  • Crime

• The overwhelming female protest to the presidential election perhaps is an accurate indicator of how essential it is to understand women, the issues they face, and the need to address women's rights, not just nationally, but globally.

  

  Carolyn Custis James
  • Female
  • Election
  • Protest

• Not a season passes without new disclosures showing Nixon's numerous attempts at criminal use of his presidential powers and in fact the scorn he held for the rule of law.

  

  Bob Woodward
  • Law
  • Presidential

• Presidential elections always turn on personalities, they turn on how campaigns are run, they turn on natural desires for change.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Presidential

• The Brexit vote, the presidential elections in the U.S., a number of the other regional political movements - that's not a flash in the pan.

  

  James P. Gorman
  • Political
  • Presidential

• There is nothing so despicable as a secret society that is based upon religious prejudice and that will attempt to defeat a man because of his religious beliefs. Such a society is like a cockroach - it thrives in the dark. So do those who combine for such an end.

  

  William Howard Taft
  • Men
  • Dark
  • Religious

• It strikes me that presidential campaigns can often bring out the worst as well as the best in us.

  

  John Ortberg
  • Presidential

• This has always been the way of presidential politics. The president rises above the fray while his surrogates go on the attack. They throw the spears and fling the mud; he sits upon the throne.

  

  John Podhoretz
  • Presidential

• The Donald Trump phone call with the president of Taiwan seems very much in line with his rhetoric during the campaign that he intended to be tough on China. And don't forget, we have seen a lot of presidential candidates, memorably, Bill Clinton, who used to criticize George Herbert Walker Bush for coddling dictators and then take the much softer line with China once he's in office.

  

  Karen Tumulty
  • President
  • Office
  • Tough

• Sometimes in the middle of a presidential campaign, there's a political movie, and people are sick of hearing about politics, and they don't want to see that movie. They'd rather see "Godzilla."

  

  Casey Affleck
  • Political
  • Sometimes
  • Sick

• The Independence and Liberty you possess are the work of joint councils and joint efforts, of common dangers, sufferings and successes.

  

  George Washington
  • Suffering
  • Effort
  • Independence

• The Russian Federation has a growing Muslim minority, which is causing cultural and religious clashes. This is similar to mass immigration of Mexicans to America, and certain presidential candidates are tailoring their campaigns to get Mexican votes.

  

  David Duke
  • Religious
  • Immigration
  • Mexican

• Bob Dylan, Nobel laureate. A new fact so shocking that even the year's most notable deaths have not outdone it for the volume (in both senses) of instant reaction; so divisive, it makes Brexit, the Labour leadership and the US Presidential election seem lesser ruptures.

  

  David Bennun
  • Election
  • Instant
  • Notable

• Members of the White House Gang admit to “queer sensations” at the sight of this great barrel bearing down upon them, and half expect it to burst out of the Presidential shirt.

  

  Edmund Morris
  • Expect
  • Members
  • White House

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