Quotes About Presidency

On the next day (9th of February) an election was held for the chief executive offices, resulting, as I afterward learned, in my election to the Presidency, with the Hon. Alexander H. Stephens, of Georgia, as Vice-President. Mr. Stephens was a delegate from Georgia to the congress.

I thought myself better adapted to command in the field; and Mississippi had given me the position which I preferred to any other—the highest rank in her army. It was, therefore, that I afterward said, in an address delivered in the Capitol, before the Legislature of the State, with reference to my election to the Presidency of the Confederacy, that the duty to which I was thus called was temporary, and that I expected soon to be with the Army of Mississippi again.

He then farmed the problem out to Joe Laitin, a former wire service reporter who had later become a public affairs officer for President Kennedy and currently worked for President Johnson.

That Obama would embrace rather than repudiate these Bush-Cheney "war on terror" principles became evident almost immediately after he was inaugurated. Within the first several weeks of his presidency, his top legal officials explicitly advocated several of the most extremist and controversial theories of power that defined the Bush administration's approach to terrorism.

Never, never, you must never either of you remind a man at work on a political job that he may be President.

As much as we may have to battle against a Trump presidency, there's still good relationships within the Senate, bipartisan relationships where we can work together.

Teddy Roosevelt "had relished "every hour" of every day as president. Indeed, (he was) fearing the "dull thud" he would experience upon returning to private life.

The student community of Presidency College was also politically most active.

And I think it's that time. And I think if you just step aside and Mr. Romney can kind of take over. You can maybe still use a plane. Though maybe a smaller one. Not that big gas guzzler you are going around to colleges and talking about student loans and stuff like that.

I created my own party. It's called the Sloth and Indolence Party, and I'm running as an anarchist candidate in the best sense of that word. I've studied the presidency carefully.

Millions of young Americans have graduated from college during the Obama presidency, ready to use their gifts and get moving in life. Half of them can't find the work they studied for, or any work at all. So here's the question: Without a change in leadership, why would the next four years be any different from the last four years?

You cannot denude the presidency of the substance and power of its office. It can't be done.

Any reasonable person looking at the policy results... the substance... the facts would agree that the Trump presidency is one of the most successful in American history.

I'd still like to be the President, of course, and I think the best way to do that would be to raise an army and seize the Capital. This strikes me as true democracy.

The US presidency will continue to represent the major power groups of the United States - big business and the military - regardless of who the talking head is.

During the Obama presidency, Frank Biden's charter schools received millions of dollars in federal grants.

Michael is in a group I've been hearing a lot about lately. White men who, following eight years of a black president, feel forgotten.

As Washington left the Presidency in 1797 he urged Americans to observe two rules: avoid dividing into political parties and avoid "entangling alliances" with foreign countries. The first principle was already abandoned when he spoke. And 20th century Americans would discard the second.

Certainly, the new day was at hand when President Harding took office. The amazing disparity between the job and the man has the right twenties flavour: it was an era of contradictions. Harding was not intelligent or firm or hard-working enough to be a successful President. His other personal weaknesses hardly mattered. True, he committed adultery in a coat-cupboard at the White House because he was too afraid of his wife to take his mistress to more comfortable quarters;

A common canard of the time showed Ike viewing the Presidency simply as an agreeable place in which to pass the early years of his retirement, with wonderful opportunities for golf.

President Joe Biden is unfit to hold the office of the Presidency. His pattern of abuse of power as President Obama's Vice President is lengthy and disturbing.

I'm the only American alive or dead who presided unhappily over the removal of a vice president and a president.

In America, any boy can grow up to become president. Or, if he never grows up, vice president.

People don't vote for vice president, they vote for president.