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President Bush will come here and there will be new 'friends' of America to open a new relationship with the world, new economic fortunes for those who 'liberated' them.
~ Robert Fisk
So without getting into the specifics, I can tell you that to the extent that investigation is a relatively important investigation and meaningful, the president would have been periodically briefed.
~ Robert Mueller
I remember the last three days that I was president, I never went to bed at all. I never went to bed until we had negotiated the final release of the hostages.
~ Jimmy Carter
I am proud to be the first Hindu American to have been elected to Congress and now the first Hindu American to run for president.
~ Tulsi Gabbard
Dude, I've played almost every position except for President. When I did 'The Event,' I was head of the CIA. When I did 'Chuck,' I was head of the NSA. For a guy that's a hippie at heart, I don't know where they think of this.
~ Tony Todd
I didn't realize the president was such an historian.
~ Mark Shields
We should honor Franklin Delano Roosevelt today as the greatest commander in chief of the Armed Forces of the United States in our history, bar none - including President Lincoln.
~ Nigel Hamilton
Hopefully, in not a too distant future, we will see a Latino president, and who knows how's that going to happen. It's just a matter of time.
~ Julian Castro
I see myself a humble man, and I tell you I have no ambitions to be president.
~ Emmerson Mnangagwa
I'm humbled by the honor that President Clinton has done me in nominatinq me as Attorney General of the United States, and I'm going to do my very best to deserve his confidence.
~ Janet Reno
I met this woman who was a hundred, this housekeeper, a hundred years old. I interviewed her. She just told me about her whole life. She's like, 'I can't read, I can't write; I can tell you who I was working for, and I can tell you the year, but who was president?'
~ Tate Taylor
All I can think of is that this makes me the greatest seventh-grade president in the history of student government.
~ Gordon Korman
After much jousting between the Congress and the president over the appointment of more officers, Madison by the end of the year had issued commissions to over eleven hundred individuals, 15 percent of whom immediately declined them, followed by an additional 8 percent who resigned after several months of service.
~ Gordon S. Wood
The advice part of the Senate's role in treaty making was dropped.125 When the president issued his Proclamation of Neutrality in 1793, he did not bother to ask for the consent of the Senate, and he thus further established the executive as the dominant authority in the conduct of foreign affairs.
~ Gordon S. Wood
As the age of television progresses the Reagans will be the rule, not the exception. To be perfect for television is all a President has to be these days.
~ Gore Vidal
The worst thing to happen to Lincoln - aside from the unfortunate incident at Ford's theatre - was to fall into the hands of Carl Sandburg.
~ Gore Vidal
I think there should be a constitutional amendment making it impossible for anyone to be president who believes in an afterlife.
~ Gore Vidal
In other words, if public opinion is not unduly aroused one may safely set aside the Constitution and illegally arrest one's enemies. Had this letter been published at the time, an excellent case might have been made for the impeachment and removal of a president who had broken that oath he had taken to defend and to protect the Constitution by conspiring to obstruct and pervert the course of justice.
~ Gore Vidal
Since a president can do wrong and since he can be named in debate, he is not an anointed king and so like any man is answerable to the law." John Marshall then summoned President Jefferson to Richmond
~ Gore Vidal
agent Ronald Reagan, president of the Screen Actors Guild, had come into his splendid own, fingering better actors.
~ Gore Vidal
I have a memory of my fourth-grade self wanting to be the first woman president of the United States, but I think that has a lot more to do with my love of world records and reference books than a love of serving my country.
~ Elizabeth McCracken
Probably the most useful thing I can do as secretary of state is to assist the president in adapting and renewing the transnational institutions that were created after World War II.
~ Warren Christopher
Raising taxes is the last thing we should do amid the weakest economic recovery since World War II. Unfortunately, even if we avoid the full 'Taxmageddon' scenario, President Obama's health care law also contains a new surtax on investment that will take effect in 2013.
~ John Cornyn
The Kosovars were granted autonomy at the end of World War II, but then aspiring president Milosevic had the autonomy revoked in 1989, and the Dayton Accords of 1995, which ended the recent war in Bosnia and Croatia, failed to address the issue of Kosovo's status.
~ Sebastian Junger