Presidency quotes

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◆ Same-sex couples should be able to get married.

- Barack Obama100

◆ Being president is like being a jackass in a hailstorm. There's nothing to do but to stand there and take it.

- Lyndon B Johnson99

◆ I am not the Catholic candidate for President. I am the Democratic Party's candidate for President, who happens also to be a Catholic.

- John Fitzgerald Kennedy99

◆ Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.

- Douglas Adams99

◆ President Bush left for Canada today to attend a trade summit. Reportedly, the trade summit got off to an awkward start when the president pulled out his baseball cards.

- Conan O'Brien99

◆ The presidency has made every man who occupied it, no matter how small, bigger than he was; and no matter how big, not big enough for its demands.

- Lyndon B Johnson99

◆ Somewhere out in this audience may even be someone who will one day follow in my footsteps, and preside over the White House as the president's spouse. I wish him well.

- Barbara Bush99

◆ All the president is, is a glorified public relations man who spends his time flattering, kissing, and kicking people to get them to do what they are supposed to do anyway.

- Harry S Truman99

◆ I also wish that the Pledge of Allegiance were directed at the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, as it is when the President takes his oath of office, rather than to the flag and the nation

- Dr Carl Sagan99

◆ Presidents do make mistakes, but the immortal Dante tells us that divine justice weighs the sins of the cold-blooded and the sins of the warm-hearted in different scales

- Franklin D Roosevelt99

◆ A woman will be elected President before Wade Boggs is called out on strikes. I guarantee that.

- George Brett99

◆ Using the Oval office to cheat on your wife makes you a bad husband and an irresponsible leader. Using the Oval office to lead your troops into a war born of blatant deception makes you a murderer and a war criminal.

- Jules Carlysle99

◆ My fellow citizens, the American Presidency is not supposed to be a journey of personal discovery.

- Sarah Palin99

◆ In the scheme of our national government, the presidency is preeminently the people's office.

- Grover Cleveland99

◆ This is the man (Ronald Reagan) who proved that ignorance is no handicap to the presidency

- Molly Ivins99