Quotes About President

People hated to take their disagreements to the President; it was as though a failure to agree somehow reflected badly on each of them, and consensus, rather than clarity, was often the highest goal of the process.

She tried to grin, grateful. Of course: fund raising. The core of every job description in the nation, from schoolchildren on up to the president.

Einstein preferred to review a letter to the President in person. Teller therefore delivered Szilard to Peconic, probably on Sunday, July 30, in his sturdy 1935 Plymouth.1183 "I entered history as Szilard's chauffeur," Teller aphorizes the experience.1184 They found the Princeton laureate in old clothes and slippers. Elsa Einstein served tea.

Richard Nixon was a serial collector of resentments.

What the president never accepted, or even clearly understood – as most people don't understand – is the autonomy editors have, and must have, to produce a good newspaper. I used to describe it as liberty, not license.

hand and working to unite the country, Nixon

But to be frank, there's much relief around the company. We feel now we can forget our past transgressions and look to the future. It was a great thing our President did.

This is amazing," Volodya said. "He's the President, yet he has to make excuses all the time for what he does!" "Something like that," Woody said. "We call it democracy.

How exciting to be at the center of power." "It is exciting, but strangely enough it doesn't feel like the center of power. In a democracy the president is subject to the voters." "But surely he doesn't just do what the public wants." "Not exactly, no. President Wilson says a leader must treat public opinion the way a sailor deals with the wind, using it to blow the ship in one direction or another, but never trying to go directly against it.

Texaco's chairman, the Hitler-admiring Torkild Rieber, was using the company's tankers to smuggle oil to the rebels in defiance of a specific request from President Roosevelt.

What about America? They believe in democracy. Surely they'll sell guns to Spain?" "You'd think so, wouldn't you? But there's a well-financed Catholic lobby, led by a millionaire called Joseph Kennedy, opposing any help to the Spanish government. And a Democratic president needs Catholic support. Roosevelt won't do anything to jeopardize his New Deal.

Y recuerden: aunque el presidente les diga que llueve y parezca muy, muy sincero, miren por la ventana… solo para asegurarse».

Woodrow Wilson was the first American president ever to leave the country during his term of office.

The types who planned an insurrection against Roosevelt in the thirties

eloquently honour President Kennedy's memory than the earliest possible passage of the civil rights bill for which he fought so long.

La capacidad de escuchar a gente inteligente que no está de acuerdo contigo es un talento difícil de encontrar… pero un presidente debe tenerlo

Saber escutar pessoas inteligentes que discordam das suas opiniões é um talento rato, mas que um presidente deveria ter.

Somehow—and Jasper could not figure out how this trick had been worked—people who challenged the president and caught him out cheating and lying were no longer heroes, as they had been in the seventies, but instead were considered disloyal and even anti-American.

presidente más que Nixon podría haber sido tan arrogante y estúpido.

criminality was particularly horrifying in a president who had campaigned on a law-and-order ticket.

Wilson cree que un presidente debe hacer frente a la opinión pública como un velero al viento: debe aprovecharse de ella, pero nunca directamente en contra de ella

The ability to listen to smart people who disagree with you is a rare talent – but a president should have it.

said: "I am the only president you have; if you would have me fail, then you fail, for the country fails.

The President of the United States, if you remove his blackness, then just ask the question, is he a good President or is he a bad President for the United States? Just remove the blackness and make that decision.