Presidential Quotes - Page 15

When liberals' presidential nominees consistently fail to carry Kansas, liberals do not rush to read a book titled "What's the Matter With Liberals' Nominees?" No, the book they turned into a bestseller is titled "What's the Matter With Kansas?" Notice a pattern here?

Your boys are not going to be sent into any foreign wars.

One of the many, many salutary aspects of Barack Obama's impending presidential nomination is the sea change his victory marks in the battle for the mind-set of the American foreign policy establishment.

Unlike presidential administrations, problems rarely have terminal dates.

I will totally accept the results of this great and historic presidential election if I win. I would also reserve my right to contest or file a legal challenge in the case of a questionable result.

I can be the most presidential person ever, other than possibly the great Abe Lincoln, all right?

Presidential leadership needn't always cost money. Look for low- and no-cost options. They can be surprisingly effective.

Somebody asked me about the current choice we're being given in the presidential election. I said, Well, it's like two of the scariest movies I can imagine.

As someone who's been covering presidential campaigns since the 1950s, I have no delusions about political reporting. Candidates bargaining access to get the kind of news coverage they want is nothing new.

I read the book [My Life by Bill Clinton] completely. And I think it compares very favorably with Ulysses S. Grant's gold standard of presidential autobiographies.

On Election Day, Ralph Nader will appear on the presidential ballot in only 45 states. Yeah, Nader said, this is really disappointing, I wanted to embarrass myself in all 50 states. That was the plan.

Lately even the harshest critics of President Bush have been forced to admit maybe he's right about freedom's march around the globe. What if we are watching an example of presidential leadership that will be taught in American schools for generations to come? It's an idea gaining more currency.

I am now a member of the private sector. I'm happy. I've got a little foundation. You never say never, but I may have had my last race and that was the Presidential race. I think that you only get one shot.

[America] will stand steadfast with Israel in pursuit of security and a lasting peace.

Presidential elections always turn on personalities, they turn on how campaigns are run, they turn on natural desires for change.

You have to exercise, or at some point you'll just break down.

You didn't build that. Somebody else made that happen.

A good character carries with it the highest power of causing a thing to be believed.

Internal improvement and the diffusion of knowledge, so far as they can be promoted by the constitutional acts of the Federal Government, are of high importance.

During my 2004 presidential campaign, I was fond of saying that it was high time for the Christian right to meet the right Christians.

That I am not a member of any Christian Church, is true; but I have never denied the truth of the Scriptures; and I have never spoken with intentional disrepect of religion in general, or of any denomination of Christians in particular.

I am glad to see that a system of labor prevails under which laborers can strike when they want to.

In regard to this Great Book, I have but to say, it is the best gift God has given to man.

Open covenants of peace, openly arrived at.

No nation is fit to sit in judgement upon any other nation.