Quotes About Legacy

George Washington sets the nation on its democratic path. Abraham Lincoln preserves it. Franklin Roosevelt sees the nation through depression and war.

Stories are one of the means by which a culture preserves its identity.

As a first-generation inheritor, the first mandate is to preserve our family wealth and hopefully increase it.

My mother inculcated wisdom in us, and I want to preserve her wisdom in writing.

It's important we preserve nature and allow our future generations to experience the best of it.

Far from being dead, physical media has years of life left and must be preserved because there is no better alternative.

Ours is a country with diversified culture and centuries-old tradition, which have to be preserved at any cost.

The common people have no history: persecuted by the present, they cannot think of preserving the memory of the past.

Everything I do is in a New York state of mind. I'm indebted to preserving the sound of the city.

There are times when we need to think beyond business and look at preserving culture and languages.

With me it is exceptionally true that the Presidency is no bed of roses.

I think that the presidency really brings out the best in a lot of people.

I am extremely ecstatic about the presidency of Barack Obama. I think he is paving the way for young African-American men like myself. I have very high expectations for Obama, and I am extremely hopeful that he will bring great lasting change not just to America, but to the entire world.

The thing about looking back over Clinton's presidency, and probably anybody's presidency, is that when you look back, the events all line up in a way that makes sense. At the time, you don't know where it's going.

You don't run for the presidency out of nostalgia.

Each day of the Obama presidency seems to bring a new, perversely delicious irony.

After the presidency, there's nowhere else to go in politics.

I love this university, and although I might be retiring from the presidency, my work with Ohio State will continue.

'Anthems' was a harsh indictment of American foreign policy; the video for the first single featured an American flag engulfed in a pool of oil, imagery which might have been risque in 2002, but seemed unimaginably passe in the last year of Bush's presidency.

More than Nixon or any other 20th-century president, Clinton has devoted his life to winning and keeping the presidency.

It's very important that the issues that Bernie is talking about are carried forward and he is intending to do that. Winning the presidency is not enough.

Were there hour-by-hour countdowns to the end of the Bush presidency? The end of the Obama years? No, definitely not to this extent. Trump's time in office is ending in ignoble fashion.

If every senator looks into the mirror and sees a future president, then every president looks into that same mirror and sees himself on Mount Rushmore.

I will never be known as the former President of Zaire.