Quotes About Presidential

A lot of presidential memoirs, they say, are dull and self-serving. I hope mine is interesting and self-serving.

President Abraham Lincoln commuted the sentences of all but thirty-nine, who'd been found guilty of the most egregious acts.

If we celebrate Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday at a time of presidential inaugurals, this is thanks to Ronald Reagan who created the holiday, and not to the Democratic Congress of the Carter years, which rejected it.

Coretta told Daddy King of Kennedy's phone call as they prepared to see Morris Abram. King, Sr., was ecstatic, and said that this was enough to shift his traditionally Republican presidential preference and vote instead for Kennedy, the man who had called his daughter-in-law.

Part One ALWAYS HUNGRY, NEVER LOSING WEIGHT In 1905, during his term as secretary of war, William Taft weighed 314 pounds. On his doctor's advice, Taft began a low-calorie/low-fat diet and exercise program bearing striking similarity to standard weight loss treatment today. Soon, he reported feeling "continuously hungry." At his presidential inauguration three years later, Taft weighed 354 pounds.1

the nation faced a constitutional crisis in which both major presidential candidates—Republican Rutherford B. Hayes and Democrat Samuel Tilden—claimed victory in the 1876 election, raising concerns about who would govern the Republic.

Oh my god... Kerry is boring even when Bush is reading him.

A new presidential poll reveals that Democrats have the edge among voters under 30. The good news for Republicans is that there's only six people under 30 who actually vote.

A lot of people feel very good about Mitt Romney and I think he's going to do a great job.

Hillary's [Clinton] been doing a good job of portraying [Donald] Trump as unqualified, not the right temperament.

When a presidential candidate is publicly requesting help from the Russians, you know that there is something seriously going wrong in the USA.

If Hillary Clinton wins the race, she will win it with the most diverse coalition that anybody's ever been elected by in presidential history.

I'm defining [presidential courage] pretty narrowly. It's not only taking a big political risk but it's also the risk that in the hindsight of history, people think it's wise.

Don't forget to vote for Bill Clinton and Al Gore. Stay home if you're voting for Dole.

I'm telling you, November 8, we better be careful, because that presidential election is going to be rigged. And I hope the Republicans are watching closely, or it's going to be taken away from us.

When the shadow of the Presidential and Congressional election is lifted we shall, I hope to be in a better temper to legislate.

Barack Obama may be black, but John McCain is the first Albino presidential candidate: he's completely see-through!

I regret that a private comment I made to the vice presidential candidate made it through the public airways.

Federal elections happen every two years in this country. Presidential elections every four years. And four years just isn't long enough to dismantle all the environmental laws we've got in this country.

In the 2000 election, George W. Bush carried 30 of the 50 states even as he lost the popular vote to Al Gore.

Madison Square Garden—of all places—to open his campaign on 12 August

Members of the White House Gang admit to "queer sensations" at the sight of this great barrel bearing down upon them, and half expect it to burst out of the Presidential shirt. Roosevelt

The "evils of faction" theme recurs throughout our history, from the writings of the "muckrakers" at the turn of the twentieth century to the Democratic presidential primary campaigns of 2008 with talk of Halliburton's contracts in Iraq and the shady practices of sub-prime mortgage lenders.

So if 1960 had occurred under the old convention system, Kennedy would have had a very hard time getting the Democratic nomination because he would have been rejected by all those people who had worked with him in Washington.