Quotes with president-elect

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  • Noam Chomsky If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged.
    Noam Chomsky
    American Linguist, Political Activist (1928 - )
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  • Bob Filner If the President really wanted to know exactly how Rove and Libby were involved, he could walk down to their offices and demand that they answer him honestly.
    Bob Filner
    American politician (1942 - )
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  • Arlen Specter If we had pursued what President Nixon declared in 1970 as the war on cancer, we would have cured many strains. I think Jack Kemp would be alive today. And that research has saved or prolonged many lives, including mine.
    Arlen Specter
    American lawyer, author, and politician (1930 - 2012)
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  • Vaclav Havel If you want to see your plays performed the way you wrote them, become President.
    Vaclav Havel
    Czech statesman, writer and former dissident (1936 - 2011)
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  • Blake Farenthold In 2012, the Supreme Court upheld President Obama's overreaching mandate that forces every American to purchase health insurance or face a fine.
    Blake Farenthold
    American politician and lobbyist (1961 - )
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  • Oscar Wilde In America the President reigns for four years, and Journalism governs for ever and ever.
    Source: The Soul of Man Under Socialism (1891)
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Adlai Stevenson II In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.
    Adlai Stevenson II
    American politician and governor (1900 - 1965)
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  • Oscar Wilde In America, the President reigns for four years, and journalism governs for ever and ever.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Andrew Jackson In England the judges should have independence to protect the people against the crown. Here the judges should not be independent of the people, but be appointed for not more than seven years. The people would always re-elect the good judges.
    Andrew Jackson
    American president (7th) (1767 - 1845)
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  • Bill Haslam In general, everybody should admit the world is changing really fast, and it's hard for the conversations to keep up. I mean, it's hard to remember now, but when Barack Obama ran for president, he was against gay marriage.
    Bill Haslam
    American businessman and politician (1958 - )
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  • Harry S. Truman In my opinion eight years as president is enough and sometimes too much for any man to serve in that capacity.
    Harry S. Truman
    American president (1884 - 1972)
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  • Ben Shapiro In the aftermath of President Obama's re-election, members of both the administration and the media trumpeted that Obama had received his long-sought mandate. Obamacare, Americans were told, was the law of the land. It could not be changed; it could not be stopped.
    Ben Shapiro
    American conservative political commentator and attorney (1984 - )
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  • Bill Pascrell In the years since 9/11, more terrorists have been created through this President's policies than were captured or killed. There weren't any terrorists in Iraq in 2003, but there are now.
    Bill Pascrell
    American politician (1937 - )
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  • Gore Vidal It is difficult to find a reputable American historian who will acknowledge the crude fact that a Franklin Roosevelt, say, wanted to be President merely to wield power, to be famed and to be feared. To learn this simple fact one must wade through a sea of
    Gore Vidal
    American writer and criticus (1925 - 2012)
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  • Anson Jones It is only requisite, for me to say to you, that the President places great reliance upon your skill, judgment and intimate knowledge.
    Anson Jones
     
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  • Franklin D. Roosevelt It is the duty of the President to propose and it is the privilege of the Congress to dispose.
    Franklin D. Roosevelt
    American statesman (1882 - 1945)
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  • Campbell Brown It is unimaginable that anyone, right or left, can aspire to be president without having thought about this. Every candidate has the stage; the Republicans have used it to fuss unproductively over the Common Core. The Democrats have all but refused to speak.
    Campbell Brown
    American journalist (1968 - )
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  • Harry S. Truman It sure is hell to be president.
    Harry S. Truman
    American president (1884 - 1972)
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  • Boutros Boutros-Ghali It was a mistake. I was wrong, but I discovered this many years later. I was acting on the basis of this mandate given me by the most important leaders of the world: President Bush's father, prime minister of France, President Mitterand, the Chinese, everybody.
    Boutros Boutros-Ghali
    Egyptian politician and diplomat (1922 - 2016)
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  • Andrew Jackson It was settled by the Constitution, the laws, and the whole practice of the government that the entire executive power is vested in the President of the United States.
    Andrew Jackson
    American president (7th) (1767 - 1845)
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