Presidential Quotes - Page 16

The average GOP presidential vote in these last five elections was 44.5 percent. In the last three, it was 48.1 percent. Give Romney an extra point for voter disillusionment with Obama, and a half-point for being better financed than his predecessors. It still strikes me as a path to narrow defeat.

Under a Presidential government, a nation has, except at the electing moment, no influence; it has not the ballot-box before it; its virtue is gone, and it must wait till its instant of despotism again returns.

Much has been given us, and much will rightfully be expected from us. We have duties to others and duties to ourselves; and we can shrink neither.

I feel as fit as a bull moose.

The weak economy, widening income inequality, gridlock in Congress and a presidential election: Those were perhaps the dominant economic and political themes of 2012.

I heard one presidential candidate say that what this country needed was a president for the nineties. I was set to run again. I thought he said a president IN his nineties.

Every now and then, a presidential candidate surprises us with a truly human and honest moment.

Al Gore adopted three utterly different personas in three national presidential debates.

The Commission on Presidential Debates is a corrupt stranglehold on our democracy.

Only in psychiatry is the existence of physical disease determined by APA presidential proclamations, by committee decisions, and even, by a vote of the members of APA, not to mention the courts.

I have said that control of arms is a mission that we undertake particularly for our children and our grandchildren and that they have no lobby in Washington.

But however close we sometimes seem to that dark and final abyss, let no man of peace and freedom despair. For he does not stand alone.

The leadership of the American Legion has not had a constructive thought for the benefit of this country since 1918.

If I don't have a woman for three days, I get terrible headaches.

The Federal Budget can and should be made an instrument of prosperity and stability, not a deterrent to recovery.

It's only when they join together in a forward movement that this country moves ahead.

I consider a decent respect for Christianity among the best recommendations for public service.

[If the Democratic nominee turns out to be] Walter Mondale, I hope he picks Representative Geraldine Ferraro as his running mate. It would be a desperate move, but that's what it'll take to get rid of Reagan. Ms. Ferraro is no more unqualified than a lot of Vice Presidential candidates have been, and anyhow Mondale's in good health.

If you're not part of that club, as I certainly am not, you are not presidential.

The Independence and Liberty you possess are the work of joint councils and joint efforts, of common dangers, sufferings and successes.

You never know what your history is going to be like until long after you're gone.

The United States is the best and fairest and most decent nation on the face of the earth.

The 2016 presidential campaign is heating up. Can you feel the indifference, the apathy?

Herman Cain has suspended his presidential campaign, but he has asked the Secret Service if they could continue to provide him protection, at least until his wife cools off.

The first presidential debate was down in Florida. Residents spent all day putting plywood on their televisions.