Presidency sayings

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◆ I never did give them hell. I just told the truth, and they thought it was hell.

- Harry S Truman99

◆ Our enemies are innovative and resourceful...They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we.

- George W Bush99

◆ We have become not a melting pot but a beautiful mosaic. Different people, different beliefs, different yearnings, different hopes, different dreams.

- Jimmy Carter99

◆ The wave of the future is not the conquest of the world by a single dogmatic creed but the liberation of the diverse energies of free nations and free men.

- John F Kennedy99

◆ Regan and George W Bush put the United States in more debt than all the other presidents combined.

- 99

◆ A president's hardest task is not to do what is right but to know what is right

- Lyndon B Johnson99

◆ Take our politicians: they're a bunch of yo-yos. The presidency is now a cross between a popularity contest and a high school debate, with an encyclopedia of cliches the first prize.

- Saul Bellow99

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

- Steve Allen99

◆ Leave the President's family business to him. You will have plenty to do without trying to manage the First Family. They are likely to do fine without your help.

- Donald Rumsfeld99

◆ If you see the President, tell him from me that whatever happens there will be no turning back.

- Ulysses S Grant99

◆ Politics, where fat, bald, disagreeable men, unable to be candidates themselves, teach a president how to act on a public stage.

- Jimmy Breslin99

◆ You and I are stuck with the necessity of taking the worst of two evils or none at all. So-I'm taking the immature Democrat as the best of the two. Nixon is impossible.

- Harry S Truman99

◆ I have come to the conclusion that the major part of the work of a President is to increase the gate receipts of expositions and fairs and bring tourists to town.

- William Howard Taft99

◆ The President is the last person in the world to know what the people really want and think.

- James A Garfield99

◆ Anybody who wants the presidency so much that he'll spend two years organizing and campaigning for it is not to be trusted with the office.

- David Broder99