Quotes About Presidential

However Donald Trump came upon the foreign policy views he espoused, they were as crucial to his election as his views on trade and the border.

Donald Trump may be unusually flamboyant, but his views are all too representative of the party that is about to nominate him for president.

For good or for ill, Britain is in some respects moving away from a prime-ministerial system towards a presidential one. This is emphatically not, as is sometimes argued, simply a function of Tony Blair's personal ambition. The shift towards a more presidential style was already visible under Margaret Thatcher.

For eight long years, the Obamas spent our tax dollars for a lavish jet-setting lifestyle.

You know, Lincoln was funny. I don't think F.D.R. was very funny. But Lincoln was funny. Lincoln was really funny. But I think you should get elected first, and then show that you're funny.

ask the President and then tell the usher how many there will be. In the winter months,

the media treated the notion of a one-time Barack Obama voter turning on the Democrats to vote for Trump as preposterous. This transition was impossible because, to the media, all Trump voters were simply racists... and racists don't vote for black presidential candidates, do they?

As lawmakers, we must assure the people of America that our nation will not experience the nightmare of the 2000 presidential election.

Giuliani was never paid for his work beyond some expenses, at Trump's insistence; the former mayor's associate and radio cohost, Maria Ryan, tried unsuccessfully to set up a large daily fee for Giuliani, who Trump said shouldn't be paid "a dime" unless there was success, and later sought a consulting fee for herself, as well as for Trump to grant the Presidential Medal of Freedom and, most significantly, a "general pardon" to Giuliani.

Trump responded to all this with scorn, lies and personal attacks, establishing a whole new means of presidential communication: governance by Twitter.

President Carter attempted to negotiate the release of the hostages. When this failed, he authorized a military rescue mission, launched in April 1980. It was a disaster, and it turned out to be the hammer that would drive the final nail into Carter's presidential coffin.

One hundred thirty years after Abe Lincoln, re Republicans have got the anti-black vote and it's bigger than any Democratic Presidential candidate can cope with.

I am suspending my presidential campaign, because of the continued distractions, the continued hurt caused on me and my family, not because we are not fighters. Not because I'm not a fighter.

Poincaré, unusually for his time and class, was a feminist and a strong supporter of animal rights, refusing, for example, to join the customary hunting parties at the presidential country estate.

Carter delivered his diagnosis of America's malaise, Reagan responded, "I find no national malaise. I find nothing wrong with the American people." He even had the daring to tell voters they should reelect Carter "if he instills in you pride for your country and a sense of optimism about our future"—a brilliant parry that just reminded people how much they wanted to feel patriotic again.

President Bush gave his first-ever presidential radio address in both English and Spanish. Reaction was mixed, however, as people were trying to figure out which one was which.

When, at the age of seven, he blew up the family truck by dropping a match down the gas tank, we should have known he'd grow up to make his living hurling verbal firebombs at presidents.

Today, the L.A. Times accused Arnold Schwarzenegger of groping six women. I'm telling you, this guy is presidential material.

The 1888 presidential election would go down as the most corrupt in the history of the United States.

When the President does it, that means that it is not illegal.

Curing America's racial pathology couldn't be done with good intentions or presidential elections.

American presidential politics is entirely based on the myth that a perfect, omniscient, virtuous and incorruptible saviour will emerge from the New Hampshire primary every four years, and proceed to lead his people to the promised land.

The only candidate to really escape Trump's wrath has been Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, and that's because Cruz has spent the entire political season nuzzling Trump's ankles, praising the Donald like a lovesick cellmate. The Texas senator, whose rhetorical schtick is big doses of Tea Party crazy (his best line was that Obama wanted to bring "expanded Medicaid" to ISIS)

In the meantime, though, the race for the Republican Party presidential nomination sure seems funny. The event known around the world as hashtagGOPClownCar is improbable, colossal, spectacular and shocking; epic, monumental, heinous and disgusting. It's like watching 17 platypuses try to mount the queen of England. You can't tear your eyes away from it. It