Quotes with president

Quotes 161 till 180 of 227.

  • Ralph Waldo Emerson The President has paid dear for his White House. It has commonly cost him all his peace, and the best of his manly attributes. To preserve for a short time so conspicuous an appearance before the world, he is content to eat dust before the real masters who stand erect behind the throne.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Bob Graham The president has undermined trust. No longer will the members of Congress be entitled to accept his veracity. Caveat emptor has become the word. Every member of Congress is on his or her own to determine the truth.
    Bob Graham
    American politician and author (1936 - )
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  • Herbert Hoover The President is not only the leader of a party, he is the President of the whole people. He must interpret the conscience of America.
    Herbert Hoover
    American engineer, businessman and politician (1874 - 1964)
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  • Hubert Humphrey The President is the people's lobbyist.
    Hubert Humphrey
    American politician (1911 - 1978)
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  • Harry S. Truman The president is the representative of the whole nation and he's the only lobbyist that all the one hundred and sixty million people in the country have.
    Harry S. Truman
    American president (1884 - 1972)
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  • Arthur Hailey The president of General Motors was in a foul humor.
    Arthur Hailey
    British-Canadian novelist (1920 - 2004)
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  • Ari Fleischer The president welcomes peaceful protests - it is a time-honored tradition. The president agrees violence is not the answer in Iraq, and that's why he hopes Saddam Hussein will disarm.
    Ari Fleischer
    American media consultant and political aide (1960 - )
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  • Brit Hume The president's poking fun at himself over what goes down. I thought it was a good-natured performance. It made him look good. But he certainly doesn't disguise the record on weapons of mass destruction. And you feel like saying to people, Just get over it.
    Brit Hume
    American journalist and political commentator (1943 - )
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  • Bob Graham The president, clearly as a result of the war and the afterglow of the war, is in a time of great attention.
    Bob Graham
    American politician and author (1936 - )
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  • Bill Richardson The President, in talking about freedom and democracy, is sparking a wave of very positive democratic sentiment that might help us override both Islamic fundamentalism that has formed in that region, and also some of the hatred for our policies of invading Iraq.
    Bill Richardson
    American politician, author, and diplomat (1947 - )
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  • Ben Nighthorse Campbell The president, just as any other American, deserves a legal defense against personal lawsuits not related to his office. But the costs of that defense should be borne by him and not the taxpayer.
    Ben Nighthorse Campbell
    American Cheyenne politician (1933 - )
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  • C. Wright Mills The professional celebrity, male and female, is the crowning result of the star system of a society that makes a fetish of competition. In America, this system is carried to the point where a man who can knock a small white ball into a series of holes in the ground with more efficiency than anyone else thereby gains social access to the President of the United States.
    C. Wright Mills
    American sociologist (1916 - 1962)
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  • Carl Romanelli The Senate needs to protect the interests of the American people and the world community, not provide political cover to President Bush. It's not enough to call Saddam Hussein evil incarnate.
    on U.S. Senate hearings into President Bushs planned invasion of Iraq
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  • Bobby Ray Inman The standard rumor at the time was that Rumsfeld, as chief of staff, had persuaded President Ford to appoint George H.W. Bush as director of Central Intelligence, assuming that that got rid of a potential competitor for the presidency.
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  • Ben Shapiro The violation of press freedoms has been egregious under this administration, even as the press fetes President Obama as an honest and effective commander-in-chief.
    Ben Shapiro
    American conservative political commentator and attorney (1984 - )
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  • Carol Loomis There is a certain oddity to Larry Fink having problems in Washington. He is a strong Democrat who has close ties to President Obama and has often been rumored as set to take a big administration job, such as Secretary of the Treasury.
    Carol Loomis
    American financial journalist (1929 - )
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  • Barbara Jordan There is no executive order; there is no law that can require the American people to form a national community. This we must do as individuals and if we do it as individuals, there is no President of the United States who can veto that decision.
    Speaking the truth with eloquent thunder
    Barbara Jordan
    American lawyer, educator and politician (1936 - 1996)
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  • Imamu Amiri Baraka This is said to us, even as this counterfeit president has legalized the Confederate Flag in Mississippi.
    Imamu Amiri Baraka
    African-American writer of poetry, drama and fiction (1934 - 2014)
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  • Bruce Babbitt This isn't just about today, this about generations to come. And you've got a chance to be the greatest conservation President since Theodore Roosevelt, and I think he's done it.
    Bruce Babbitt
    American attorney and politician (1938 - )
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  • Bob Graham This president has been reluctant to hold anybody accountable. No one was held accountable after September the 11th. Nobody's been held accountable after the clear flaws in intelligence leading up to the war in Iraq.
    Bob Graham
    American politician and author (1936 - )
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