Presidency quotations

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◆ Black people mad Romney's white. White people mad Obama's black. Me? I'm mad no one cares about their policies or our country.

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◆ When I talked to him on the phone yesterday. I called him George rather than Mr. Vice President. But, in public, it's Mr. Vice President, because that is who he is.

- Dan Quayle98

◆ The President seems to extend executive privilege way out past the atmosphere. What he says is executive privilege is nothing but executive poppycock.

- Sam Ervin98

◆ I like the job. That's what I'll miss the most... I'm not sure anybody ever liked this as much as I've liked it

- Bill Clinton98

◆ One of the embarrassing problems for the early nineteenth-century champions of the Christian faith was that not one of the first six Presidents of the United States was an orthodox Christian.

- Mortimer Adler98

◆ Frankly, I don't mind not being President. I just mind that someone else is.

- Edward Kennedy98

◆ Bush said today he is being stalked. He said wherever he goes, people are following him. Finally, someone told him, 'Psst. That's the Secret Service.'

- Jay Leno98

◆ President Bush is taking the entire month of August off. Bush said today he thinks it is important for a president to spend time away from Washington. Or at least that's what Dick Cheney told him.

- Jay Leno98

◆ President Reagan was elected on the promise of getting government off the backs of the people and now he demands that government wrap itself around the waists of the people.

- Ralph Nader98

◆ Within the U.S., the Obama presidency will be mainly measured by the success or failure of his economic policies. And here, I fear, the monstrous stimulus package with which this administration stumbled out of the gate will prove to be Obama's Waterloo.

- Camille Paglia98

◆ I learned running the government for the Presidency, which I always thought was difficult, is even more difficult than I thought.

- Lloyd Cutler98

◆ I once told Nixon that the Presidency is like being a jackass caught in a hail storm. You've got to just stand there and take it.

- Lyndon B Johnson98

◆ No man will ever carry out of the Presidency the reputation which carried him into it.

- Thomas Jefferson98

◆ There has been so much power concentrated. There is no leash on that power anymore and Americans face the situation that this power is getting momentum with each passing year with each presidency.

- James Bovard98

◆ For instance, it is certain that women do not want a woman for President. Nor would they have the slightest confidence in her ability to fulfill the functions of that office.

- Eleanor Roosevelt98