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There are a lot of smart honest, progressive people who I think can be good presidents.
Bernie Sanders

Good, Smart, Honest

As the proud father of two teens and past Chairman to the Presidents Council on Physical Fitness and Sports, I am committed to educating parents and especially young people on ways to live a long, healthy and active life.
Lee Haney

Life, Fitness, Sports

I think that in Mexico, we must change some practices that were built during the 72 years of predominance in Mexico. Former presidents would just hide away, run away or disappear. And I think it's key in a democracy that presidents face people, see eye to eye to citizens and work to keep on contributing to the - to Mexico.
Vicente Fox

Change, Work, Democracy

As I've gotten older, I've gotten more liberal, and my father is increasingly conservative. It's so shocking to me because I always thought we had the same politics. The day I realized we voted for different presidents, I practically fell out of my chair.
Lauren Graham

Politics, Father, Different

The whole issue of healthcare is very complicated. There have been seven Presidents who've tried to get healthcare reform passed.
Valerie Jarrett

Whole, Tried, Issue

I think that presidents don't give up power that has accrued to them by the precedent of previous presidents. Even when they say they would like to, I think once they get there they don't give it up.
Rachel Maddow

Power, Give, Once

Obama is making a choice now that will lead to the deaths of many thousands of civilians in Afghanistan by American hands. By ordinary standards of presidents, he is a decent man. But those standards aren't good enough. He's in a position either to kill or not to kill, and he's made the decision to kill.
Daniel Ellsberg

Good, Decision, Made

One out of forty American men wears women's clothing. We've had more than forty presidents. One of these guys has been dancing around the Oval Office in a prom dress.
Allison Janney

Women, Men, Around

I would say to my colleague that the misery index, inflation and unemployment, when added together is the lowest it has been in the last series of Presidents, even going back to Jimmy Carter. So I think the Bush administration is doing a good job.
Cliff Stearns

Good, Job, Together

Presidents often disappoint, but first ladies rarely do.
Kitty Kelley

Often, Ladies, Rarely

Assassins and presidents invite the same basic question: Just who do you think you are?
Sarah Vowell

Same, Question, Basic

In my opinion governors don't make the best presidents. That's my opinion and it's because they don't have the foreign policy experience and they have to learn on the job.
Kay Bailey Hutchison

Best, Experience, Job

But presidents matter. That's one of the biggest lessons I learned being in the White House.
Sidney Blumenthal

Learned, Matter, House

Bill Clinton was in the line of great progressive presidents who faced the realities in his own time and applied innovative solutions to problems.
Sidney Blumenthal

Time, Great, Problems

We see more and more of our Presidents and know less and less about what they do.
Bill Moyers

I have worked with Presidents since Eisenhower. We serve together.
John Dingell

Together, Since, Worked

Midterm elections for first-term presidents are notoriously difficult.
Tim Kaine

Difficult, Elections

From George Washington to George W. Bush, presidents have invoked God's name in the performance of their official duties.
Linda Chavez

God, Name, Washington

The presidents I served under don't have anything to do with my politics.
William Odom

Politics, Served

In fact, it was the women in our house who were in the saddle. If men are the gods, women are not only the presidents but all the ministers of the government.
Pedro Almodovar

Women, Men, Government

Seven presidents before him - Democrats and Republicans - tried to expand health care to all Americans. President Obama got it done.
Julian Castro

Health, Care, Done

We're making this as entertainment. But God willing, if this show stays on and people see a woman in that office for a while, I think it will help people become more used to it. It's certainly about time that we had a few female presidents.
Geena Davis

Time, God, Help

Every White House has had its intellectuals, but very few presidents have been intellectuals themselves - Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Woodrow Wilson, the list more or less stops there.
Jonathan Raban

Few, Themselves, Less

The principles and policy of these Presidents were marked by the most enlarged and comprehensive statesmanship, promoting the highest interests of the Republic.
Robert Toombs

Principles, Policy, Interests

I've never been a fan of presidents who place blame on their predecessors or who accept credit for events that couldn't have been engineered so soon in their tenure.
Kathleen Parker

Blame, Place, Accept

All presidents rail against the press. It goes with the turf.
Helen Thomas

Against, Goes, Press

I covered two presidents, LBJ and Nixon, who could no longer convince, persuade, or govern, once people had decided they had no credibility, but we seem to be more tolerant now of what I think we should not tolerate.
Helen Thomas

Two, Once, Seem

After being sworn in to office, vice presidents have usually been relegated to the sidelines, where they just don't get to do very much.
Mary Cheney

After, Office, Vice

The last five - six presidents of Haiti have failed miserably. And I don't think it would be an honor for me to say I want to be the next 'president.' I want to be the man by with whom change arrives.
Michel Martelly

Change, Honor, Last

In a rational society we would want our presidents to be teachers. In our actual society we insist they be cheerleaders.
Steve Allen

Society, Teachers, Rational

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