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		Being president of too many well-meaning organizations put my father into an early grave. The lesson in this was not lost on me.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Roy Blount, Jr.
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I am just a humble worker. Commander Chavez decided I should be president. To President Obama, we remember that young leader and of the workers of Chicago. So we have a different kind of relation. For him and John Kerry. We talked to Edward Kennedy.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Nicolas Maduro
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		We need steady hands, not a president who says he's neutral on Monday, pro-Israel on Tuesday, and who knows what on Wednesday, because everything's negotiable.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Hillary Clinton
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		That's what I like to call him, "the current president." I find it difficult to say or type his name, George W. Bush. I like to call him "the current president" because it's a hopeful phrase, implying that his administration is only temporary.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Sarah Vowell
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Presidents may go to the seashore or to the mountains. Cabinet officers may go about the country explaining how fortunate the country is in having such an administration, but the machinery at Washington continues to operate under the army of faithful non-commissioned officers, and the great mass of governmental business is uninterrupted.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				William Howard Taft
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		President Johnson had a habit of throwing dollars at a question and the question would disappear.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Wilbur Mills
			
		
	
	
  
	 
	
		
		
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		If men like Ken Starr and his allies could ignore the Constitution and abuse power for ideological and malicious ends to topple a President, I feared for my country.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Hillary Clinton
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		We may have much that worries us, and we may find many reasons to be concerned. Yet, as President Spencer W. Kimball observed, peace and the Savior's doctrine of forgiveness are inseparably connected: The essence of forgiveness is that it brings peace to the previously anxious, restless, frustrated, perhaps tormented soul.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Cecil O. Samuelson
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		The Negroes of America had taken the President, the press and the pulpit at their word when they spoke in broad terms of freedom and justice. But the absence of brutality and unregenerate evil is not the presence of justice. To stay murder is not the same thing as to ordain brotherhood.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Martin Luther King, Jr.
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		President Reagan rushed home from Santa Barbara vacation, from the Reagan ranch when the Korean jetliner was shot out of the air by the Russians.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Kate Obenshain
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Well, I am as much a cheerleader for President Obama as Sen. McConnell is a Chippendale dancer.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Alison Lundergan Grimes
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I saw a Harry Reid statement saying, there's nothing in the Constitution that says the Senate has to act on any presidential nominee. Well, that was back when President Bush was president and vice versa. So this is not a pretty carrying-on at the moment.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Nina Totenberg