Presidential Quotes - Page 7

Slavery is the great and foul stain upon the North American Union.

I have had many troubles in my life, but the worst of them never came.

If American democracy is to remain the greatest hope of humanity, it must continue abundantly in the faith of the Bible

When I hit the skins they all say, 'Damn Kane... You knock out the Bush like a presidential campaign!'

We establish no religion in this country. We command no worship. We mandate no belief, nor will we ever. Church and state are and must remain separate.

In presidential campaign I released a 65-page file from the Syracuse University College of Law that showed poor grades, back in college, also. If I were plagiarizing consistently, my grades would have been better.

There is no Soviet domination of Eastern Europe.

We are not deceived by their pretenses to piety. We have seen their kind before. They are the heirs of all the murderous ideologies of the 20th century. By sacrificing human life to serve their radical visions - by abandoning every value except the will to power - they follow in the path of fascism, and Nazism, and totalitarianism. And they will follow that path all the way, to where it ends: in history's unmarked grave of discarded lies.

We have ...drawn a line in the sand.

As lawmakers, we must assure the people of America that our nation will not experience the nightmare of the 2000 presidential election.

By mutual respect, understanding and with good will we can find acceptable solutions to any problems which exist or may arise between us.

You have Hillary Clinton who has called black teens or black kids super predators, you have Donald Trump who's openly racist. We have a presidential candidate who has deleted emails and done things illegally and is a presidential candidate. That doesn't make sense to me because if that was any other person you'd be in prison.

We the people tell the government what to do, it doesn't tell us.

Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.

I ask that all Americans demonstrate in their personal and public lives... the high ethical standards that are essential to good character and to the continued success of our Nation.

During the presidential primaries of 1940, I received a request from the Democratic National Committee to sing God Bless America before the speeches.

For a subject worked and reworked so often in novels, motion pictures, and television, American Indians remain probably the least understood and most misunderstood Americans of us all.

We must adjust to changing times and still hold to unchanging principles.

Mob rule can not be allowed to override the decisions of our courts.

If more politicians knew poetry, and more poets knew politics, I am convinced the world would be a little better place in which to live.

Secrecy and a free, democratic government don't mix.

International exchanges are not a great tide to sweep away all differences, but they will slowly wear away at the obstacles to peace as surely as water wears away a hard stone.

Mitt Romney has won the 2012 presidential nomination by promising Republicans that he would end a so-called 'culture of dependency' on welfare - welfare defined as 'free stuff' and food stamps for poor folks, not tax breaks for Big Oil or tax shelters for Bain executives.

Every people has a right to choose the sovereignty under which they shall live.

The American Labor Movement has consistently demonstrated its devotion to the public interest. It is, and has been, good for all America.