The most important individual in the Iran is not President Ahmadinejad. It's the supreme leader, Ayatollah Khamenei. He was elected, but we're not talking about free and fair elections in Iran. There are certain vetting processes which take place.
Other than they may or may not have discussed the relative merits of the Electoral College vs. the popular vote, what I am told by sources close to Al Gore is that this was at the instigation of Ivanka Trump, that she reached out to the former vice president recently to discuss climate change, and that he was really impressed with the way she was thinking about the issue, framing the issue.
The evidence does look like this wasn't just a casual - world leaders don't just pick up the phone and call each other. It does appear that the Donald Trump phone call with the president of Taiwan was a deliberate move, a deliberately provocative move.
The Donald Trump phone call with the president of Taiwan seems very much in line with his rhetoric during the campaign that he intended to be tough on China. And don't forget, we have seen a lot of presidential candidates, memorably, Bill Clinton, who used to criticize George Herbert Walker Bush for coddling dictators and then take the much softer line with China once he's in office.
I love conventional apocalypse movies. In movies, I like to be with the President, or the scientist trying to solve the problem, but that's not the kind of fiction that I like to read.
President Obama vowed in his State of the Union address to make assisting domestic manufacturers a top priority for his second term.
I saw the S.B.A. with just enormous potential, and that's what I told the president - this is really a jewel.
The President has a wonderful sense of humor, which is one of the reasons it is so much fun to work for him.
The American president [George W. Bush] closes his eyes to the economic and human damages that are inflicted on his country and the world economy by natural disasters, like Katrina, through neglected climate protection.
For me, the battle isn't Hillary [Clinton] vs. [Bernie] Sanders. And I understand that for some people that's the battle. But for me, more than anything, it's stopping a Republican president.
The one appearance that I made for President Kennedy, he, as I understand, had his choice or was asked to make a list of the people he would like to have perform, and I was fortunate enough to be one of them.
When Ronald Reagan became president, students could no longer get food stamps.
I don't regret my votes for President Obama by any stretch of the imagination.
It was quite a process to narrow more than 400 columns down to 80. I write weekly, though, and I don't always write about President [Barack] Obama, so that was the easy elimination.
The president [Barack Obama] did introduce a jobs bill that could not clear Congress. The Republicans simply would not work with him.
African-American people adore President Obama.
We didn't hold President Obama as accountable as we might have.
I think the takeaway from not holding President Obama accountable is, no matter how enthusiastic you are about Hillary Clinton, no matter how enthusiastic you are, the first thing that needs to happen is that people need to start planning how to hold her accountable.
The Task Force didn't produce any earth-shattering findings but it suggests that this matter is on the president's radar screen.
Trayvon Martin could have been any of our sons, so I was not especially moved by that remark of President [Barack] Obama's.
The published record will show that many in Chicago have mixed feedback on the President's [Barack Obama] role as organizer.
Tavis Smiley lost lots of corporate support after he was critical of President [Barack] Obama.
This was in 2004, and it told me that President [Barack] Obama intended to be very careful and noncontroversial in addressing race matters. I
He was in Poland to participate in the NATO conference, President [Barack] Obama did respond well to the back-to-back killings, as well as to the attacks on Dallas police officers that followed.
African-Americans have rarely been the beneficiaries of Presidential rhetorical excess.
