President Quotes - Page 156

All the political seers and sorcerers seem to be agreed that the coming Presidential campaign will be full of bitterness, and that most of it will be caused by religion. I count Prohibition as a part of religion, for it has surely become so in the United States. The Prohibitionists, seeing all their other arguments destroyed by the logic of events, have fallen back upon the mystical doctrine that God is somehow on their side, and that opposing them thus takes on the character of blasphemy.

Did I say that the President's entire job is image management? Of course not.

[It's] Rare for a first lady to be running for president.

There are a number of people who won't be president in 2009, and Mark Warner is one of them.

My greatest trials come through those professing to be near and attached friends, who expect things.

That's the job of the National Security Council is to try to be a disciplined clearinghouse, gathering the views from across multiple agencies, teeing up decisions that make sense for the president.

Back in the '60s, for example, just as inflation was beginning to be a big problem, Presidents J.F.Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson would often publicly browbeat companies for raising prices and threatening to move federal defense purchases to different countries.

I admire President Obama's ability to trust strangers.

I don't think you can be a credible, modern candidate for president without making the environment a major part of your platform.

Nixon was a Southern Rim President, and so antipathetic to the old guard.

When the Presidential virus attacks the system there is a tendency for the patient in his fever to move from the Right or the Left to the Center where the curative votes are.

After [Tomas] Jefferson's defeat of [John] Adams in the presidential election of 1800, they didn't communicate with one another for more than a decade.

Being president of a major public university is the most political nonpolitical office around.

As President Nixon says, presidents can do almost anything, and President Nixon has done many things that nobody would have thought of doing.

There's one logical generational difference and that is that young women will have more chances to support a female president than older women. Older women feel it's their last chance, so that's just a factual, obvious difference. But other than that it depends on experience, on individual experience.

You can't be what you can't see, so it's harder for women to say, "I'm going to be a [presidential] candidate," so we need to go to women who would be good candidates and say, "You would be a good candidate and I'll help you." It's not a passive question, it's not when will it happen, but an active question, when will we make it happen?

I was invited by President Bush to come to the United States on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the mutual defense treaty.

A president can be as strong as she wants to be.

I have a European Fanclub that's based in Holland, and I had to have that President of the Fanclub to get me a number of recordings that I hadn't had the foresight to collect myself.

A president who is burdened with a failed and unpopular war, and who has lost the trust of the country, simply can no longer govern. He is destined to become as much a failure as his war.

The same president who has insisted that core moralism drives him has brought America to its lowest moral standing in history.

We can't afford any president to fail.

The president should not be able to make me or you ever worried about what's going to happen in our personal life.

I would like a practical president, but I would like to be able to have his practicality based on principles, and not just who - I mean the room with.

I think the president is a racist.