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		When Bill Clinton was running for president. I'll never forget this one. He was running in New Hampshire. He was not doing well. And he suddenly, over a weekend, rushed back to Little Rock to execute a guy who had killed a cop, but in the process, the policeman had shot him in the head and he was out of it. He didn't know today from tomorrow, good, evil, whatever. His lawyer begged - his lawyer was an old friend of Clinton.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Nat Hentoff
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		It's tougher to be a football coach than the President of the United States. You've got four years as a president, and they guard you. A football coach doesn't have anyone to protect him when things go wrong.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Harry S Truman
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		When mothers talk about the depression of the empty nest, they're not mourning the passing of all those wet towels on the floor, or the music that numbs your teeth, or even the bottle of capless shampoo dribbling down the shower drain. They're upset because they've gone from supervisor of a child's life to a spectator. It's like being the vice president of the United States.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Erma Bombeck
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		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
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		President Obama hasn't been elected by the American people in order to be pleasant to Russia.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Vladimir Putin
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		You know my father as governor, as president, but I knew him as dad. I was so proud to have the Reagan name and to be Ronald Reagan's son.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Michael Reagan
			
		
	
	
  
	 
	
		
		
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		Elected presidents are for countries.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				William Hague
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		The problems facing the world and the United States today of lawlessness and terrorism can directly be laid to the policies that have come out of the White House and out of the secretary of state's office when Clinton was president.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Paul Manafort
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I think what we're seeing is that they're testing each other. Russia is testing us, we're testing them, it's part of just, you know, the new president Donald Trump coming in and President Vladimir Putin having to figure out his place.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Nikki Haley
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		She really is a completely different First Lady. Eleanor Roosevelt was not going to suffer and withdraw in the White House. And I think he's a very different President. He does not want his wife to suffer and withdraw in the White House. And they really are partners. They're partners in a big house where there are two separate courts, and they both know they have two separate courts. But these are courts that are allied in purpose, united in vision.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Blanche Wiesen Cook
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I'm going to keep talking about what I would do as president, the experience that I bring, the temperament and judgment that led President Barack Obama to ask me to be secretary of state after we ran a really hard primary against each other. It's funny to me, because when I have a position, whether it's first lady, or senator, or secretary of state, and I'm doing the work, I'm really quite popular.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Hillary Clinton
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I mean loyalty - you know, look, first we serve the people. I've always looked at that. You serve the people first. But having said that, you never forget who's in charge. You never forget who the CEO of a country is when you decide to serve. And so everyone works at the pleasure of the president. And that's what, you know, we have to remember is if he doesn't feel comfortable, he can do something about it.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Nikki Haley