Presidents Quotes

I'd read a lot of thrillers about politicians and presidents, but never one where you flip the stereotypes and make good people bad and bad people good.
David Baldacci

Good, Bad, Read

I only play projects with weird interpretations of presidents.
Benjamin Walker

Play, Weird, Projects

Doctrines provide an architecture for both Republican and Democrat presidents to carry out policies.
Malcolm Wallop

Both, Republican, Carry

If you look at where presidents come from, they're former governors or senators.
Eleanor Clift

Former, Governors, Senators

Nowadays even presidents, vice-presidents, and heads of big agencies are opening their minds to accept psychic phenomena, because they know it works.
Uri Geller

Big, Accept, Minds

I deal with guys in their 20s and early 30s who are presidents of companies, who are movie directors.
Peter Criss

Movie, Guys, Deal

In the days of Caesar, kings had fools and jesters. Now network presidents have anchormen.
Ted Koppel

Days, Fools, Kings

US presidents can make all the commitments and declarations they want until they are blue in the face, in the Muslim world they will always be perceived as partisan.
Daniel Barenboim

Until, Face, Muslim

I think you'll see if you look at 'Up', we've focused a lot on labor (and the forces trying to keep labor down) and have featured everything from Wal Mart workers, to on-the-ground organizers, to union presidents to restaurant workers sitting at the table sharing their experience and expertise.
Chris Hayes

Experience, Everything, Down

Presidents do not go into war lightly. It's a tremendous responsibility in making decisions, and I know Bush must deeply believe this is the only course.
Julie Nixon Eisenhower

War, Decisions, Making

I believe that presidents up through and including George Bush have known that Americans were left alive and in violation of law, these high officials and certain of their appointed subordinates have continued and perpetrated a cover up of this reality.
Bo Gritz

Reality, Through, Law

Affairs of state tend to drive most presidents toward the center on both foreign and domestic policy, no matter where on the political spectrum they begin, and especially so in the areas of intelligence and law enforcement.
David K. Shipler

Political, Law, Matter

Obama prefers to look forward, not back, as he has stated. So at least during his tenure, there will be no reliable record compiled as a cautionary tale for lawmakers and presidents in future times of crisis. This is the historical Obama.
David K. Shipler

Future, Crisis, Forward

Presidents with strong nerves are decisive. They don't balk at unpopular decisions. They are willing to make people angry. Bush had strong nerves. Clinton, who passed up a chance to eliminate Osama bin Laden, did not. Obama is a people pleaser, a trait not normally associated with nerves of steel.
Fred Barnes

Strong, Angry, Decisions

Securing freedom has been a singular commitment of American presidents and patriots in and out of government for generations. But its perpetual continuation is not guaranteed.
George Nethercutt

Freedom, Government, American

The presidents of colleges have to have some courage to step forward. You can't limit alcohol in college sports, you have to get rid of it.
Dean Smith

Courage, Sports, Forward

I believe that Bill Clinton will be remembered as one of our nation's great Presidents, and Senator Clinton as one of our nation's great public servants.
Joe Andrew

Great, Nation, Public

Whenever I came up against presidents of other companies, I was always smarter, because I was from the streets.
Berry Gordy

Against, Whenever, Streets

I've done it 30 years. I don't know what there is to gain by doing it 40. But I think there is something about doing it over that length of time that says something. That's seven U.S. presidents and five presidents of McDonald's.
Don Novello

Time, Done, Five

Success in war underpins the claims to greatness of many presidents.
R. W. Apple, Jr.

Success, War, Greatness

Since the end of the nineteenth century, if not earlier, presidents have misled the public about their motives and their intentions in going to war.
Robert Higgs

War, End, Since

When American presidents prepare for foreign wars, they lie.
Robert Higgs

Lie, American, Foreign

I think George Bush is one of the most duplicitous presidents we've ever had.
Jean O'Leary

I head a nation of a million presidents.
Chaim Weizmann

Nation, Head, Million

American presidents always avoid shaking hands with brutal dictators, except when it's advantageous to do so.
Elizabeth A. Sherman

American, Hands, Except

I want to kill the president because I no like the capitalists. I have the gun in my hand, I kill kings and presidents first and next all capitalists.
Giuseppe Zangara

Gun, Next, President

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