Literally minutes before the Senate cast its vote, the administration sought to add the words 'in the United States and' after 'appropriate force' in the agreed-upon text. This last-minute change would have given the president broad authority to exercise expansive powers not just overseas-where we all understood he wanted authority to act-but right here in the United States, potentially against American citizens. I could see no justification for Congress to accede to this extraordinary request for additional authority. I refused.
We will also never bring up the permanent tax cut the president is advocating.
President Bush has said that the economy is growing, that there are jobs out there. But you know, it's a long commute to China to get those jobs.
A lot of my opposition to President Obama's policies had behind them 5, 6, 7 years of bad policies that made America less safe in my regard.
Russia remains an adversary to the United States. We have some overlapping interests. It would be better if our relationship was better. But our relationship is not good right now because of Vladimir Putin. There are steps that I think that we should be taking that we should have taken under the Obama administration. For instance, providing defensive weaponry to Ukraine. I encourage the President and the administration to take a look at those steps.
I'm disappointed . . . that the president has not done more to demand that Congress and other federal agencies make the same sacrifices millions of Americans are already making. There is no charity without sacrifice.
To Ronald Wilson Regan, The Fortieth President of The United States: The Man Who Won The War.
President Bush's mercury rule is a gift to the big energy companies that helped put him in office
I am pleased that the President has signed an Executive Order this week requiring federal agencies to disclose information about prices and quality of healthcare services.
I just find Bobby Kennedy's short campaign for president so inspiring because his rhetoric identified what America can be like if we care about each other.
President Obama said that he designed Obamacare after Romneycare and basically made it Obamneycare.
I give the president credit for at least one thing. He's proven that someone can deserve a Nobel prize less than Al Gore.
One of the things about leadership is that you've got to show up. And if you want to be president of the United States you've got to make a case to the American people that Barack Obama needs to be dismissed from his position.
The American public will be clear on who's most fit to be president. And that's Hillary Clinton.
Richard Nixon was a Republican presidential candidate who encouraged crooks to commit espionage against the Democratic National Committee in order to gain an edge in a presidential election.
A president should take action to defend the United States against eminent threat. You have to. The president has to do that.
Donald Trump started this campaign in 2014 he said if I run for president I'll absolutely release my taxes.
When Congressman [Mike] Pence was in Congress, he was the chief cheerleader for the privatization of Social Security. Even after President [George W.] Bush stopped pushing for it, Congressman Pence kept pushing for it.
Donald Trump must give the American public his tax returns to show that he's qualified to be president and he's breaking his promise.
Do you want a you're hired president in Hillary Clinton or a you're fired president in Donald Trump? I don't think that's such a hard choice.
It's important to use executive orders. Every president since Washington has.
The president doesn't get a line-item veto, so all the budgetary approps stuff is with Congress.
If you think of big, legislative accomplishments, most of them kind of get initiated with the president putting something out there and Congress working on it.
I do think the president's best role is usually as the sort of initiator.
In Donald Trump, you have somebody who praises Vladimir Putin all the time. America should really wonder about a President Trump, who had a campaign manager with ties to Putin, pro- Putin elements in the Ukraine, who had to be fired for that reason. They should wonder - when Donald Trump is sitting down with Vladimir Putin, is it going to be America's bottom line or is it going to be Donald Trump's bottom line that he's going to be worried about with all of his business dealings?
