Presidency Quotes
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The Presidency, even to the most experienced politicians, is no bed of roses; and [Zachary] Taylor like others, found thorns within it. No human being can fill that station and escape censure.
Abraham Lincoln -
Even though Lyndon Johnson's presidency was in many ways scarred forever by the war in Vietnam, and destroyed in a lot of ways, he - as a character - was even larger than his presidency. Being able to get to know him well, that firsthand relationship with this large character, I think is what drew me to writing books about presidents.
Doris Kearns Goodwin
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To me, the Presidency and the Vice-Presidency were not prizes to be won, but a duty to be done.
Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr. -
Well, Warren Harding, I have got you the presidency. What are you going to do with it?
Florence Harding -
A Syrian war would consume Trump's presidency.
Pat Buchanan -
In 1848, during his term in Congress, he advocated General Taylor's nomination for the presidency, in opposition to all others, and also took an active part for his election after his nomination...
Abraham Lincoln -
Don't any of you realize there's only one life between that madman and the Presidency?
Mark Hanna -
I think history is continuous. It doesn't begin or end on Pearl Harbor Day or the day Lyndon Johnson withdraws from the presidency or on 9/11. You have to learn from the past but not be imprisoned by it. You need to take counsel of history but never be imprisoned by it.
Richard Holbrooke
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The First Month of the Buhari Presidency has been far, far from inspiring
Okechukwu Ndibe -
What I'm interested in doing after I get out of the presidency is to make sure that I'm working with that next generation so that they understand you can't just rely on inspiration.
Barack Obama -
I think the global markets will probably be selling off with a [Donald] Trump presidency because he has promised to re-do trade deals.
Maria Bartiromo -
Seriously, I do not think I am fit for the Presidency.
Abraham Lincoln -
What people have got to remember is that Sept. 11 happened in 2001 and not in 2003. It was planned under the presidency of Bill Clinton.
Jack Straw -
This act will leave a moral blot on his presidency.
Marian Wright Edelman
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Out of respect for the office of the presidency and for a desire to hear about the state of our nation.
Dennis Hastert -
The two pillars of winning the presidency are being a strong leader and being someone who understands us and our problems.
Nicolle Wallace -
To reporters the day after his accession to the presidency, April 13, 1945: When they told me yesterday what had happened, I felt like the moon, the stars and all the planets had fallen on me.
Harry S Truman -
The proposals from the presidency are not acceptable to us.
Jack Straw -
No man could be equipped for the presidency if he has never been tempted by one of the seven cardinal sins.
Eugene McCarthy -
As far as Gary Johnson is concerned, he is not a credible person on foreign policy. We need somebody like that. He doesn't understand religious liberty. I have some other concerns about his suitability and reliability in, you know, for the presidency. I just don't think he's a credible option.
Evan McMullin
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It's not by coincidence that a lot of protesters against the new presidency in America and in front of the Trump Tower, even in London... the protesters were 90 percent women. The image of the woman and the problem of the woman still exists. Not exactly in the same terms as 200 hundred years ago, but we still have the problem here.
Claude-Michel Schonberg -
I'm deeply concerned. And I think, in many ways, the Trump presidency poses a clear and present danger to our country and to the world.
Hillary Clinton -
Back in March, before Donald Trump secured the Republican nomination for president, a group of national security heavyweights signed an open letter that called Trump fundamentally dishonest and utterly unfit for the presidency. Now, two days after Trump's victory, some in the national security establishment are wondering whether to return to the fold.
Ari Shapiro -
And despite promising “everything I’ve got,” President Obama either did not know how, or chose not, to use the persuasive powers of the presidency, à la Lyndon Baines Johnson, to force them to act.
Bill Press