Presidency Quotes

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Postman is a media analyst and his theory is that television doesn`t influence our culture, but that it is our culture and the presidency and anything that relies on television.

- Val Kilmer

If John takes over the presidency at seventy-two and he ages 3-to-1, how old will he be in four years? Eighty-four years old - and can he handle that kind of pressure in that job? That`s why I didn`t pick John to support, because I`m just afraid the vice president will wind up taking over his job within that four-year presidency. - On Senator John McCain

- Chuck Norris

I was 32nd in the box office polls when I accepted the presidency of the Alliance. When I left office eight years later, somehow the folks who buy the tickets had made me number one.

- John Wayne

I love Italy and I have a deep tie with my Italian roots. I stand for Kerry, I hope he will arrive at the White House. We need a different Government to represent America. The change of presidency would be a clear and international sign to say that we are approaching again to the rest of the world. I don`t want any prize that can influence this election. I stand for Kerry. (2004)

- Robert De Niro

I`m very, very concerned about the Bush presidency. I`m worried about the kinds of cuts in domestic programs that mean something to a lot of people, including members of my family, who depend on certain things from the government.

- Sarah Jessica Parker

I am a pop star, but I also have an opinion. I grew up in a country that has existed under the whip of violence for 40 years, so how can I not? You know in my country, a 5-year-old knows not only of Disney and Mickey Mouse but of guerrillas and paramilitaries. You grow up with that kind of awareness, of what the world is really like. To be political in my country doesn`t mean you want to run for presidency, to be political simply means to have an opinion

- Shakira

The presidency is more than an honor, it is more than an office, it is a charge to keep and I will give it my all.

- George W. Bush

I teach at USC, and it`s obvious to anyone who teaches college students that they don`t cover much modern history and certainly not the modern presidency.

- Robert Scheer

I think George W. Bush has a warm, engaging personality. But, you know, the presidency is more than just a popularity contest.

- Al Gore

The presidency is more than a popularity contest.

- Al Gore

If the Soviet empire still existed, I`d be terrified. The fact is, we can afford a fairly ignorant presidency now.

- Newt Gingrich

I seek the presidency with no illusions

- Ted Kennedy

I don`t have to run for Presidency in Russia to feel good about myself. I already completed more than many people could have dreamed of.

- Garry Kasparov

About his follow-up film to Fahrenheit 9/11 (2004) and the re-election of President George W. Bush, where Bush won 51% of the popular vote: "We want to get cameras rolling now and have it ready in two, three years. We want to document it. Fifty-one per cent of the American people lacked information (in this election), and we want to educate and enlighten them. They weren`t told the truth. We`re communicators and it`s up to us to start doing it now. The official mourning period is over today, and there is a silver lining: George W. Bush is prohibited by law from running (for presidency) again."

- Michael Moore

I did though at least expect him to correct the false statements he made when he was trying to protect the Presidency. Instead, he talked about it as though I had laid it all out there for the taking. I was the buffet and he just couldn`t resist the dessert.

- Monica Lewinsky

If the American people really come to a settled belief that Bush lied us into war, his presidency will be over.

- Bill Kristol

I still think I could defend myself by pointing to the value of the presidency. I don`t think the Democrats protected the value of the presidency.

- Chris Matthews

When you see how the President makes political or policy decisions, you see who he is. The essence of the Presidency is decision-making.

- Bob Woodward

Again, President Reagan was sort of an amiable presence out at the ranch by the last 6 months of his presidency. He had no effect on national policy at all.

- Paul Begala

Today, you proved to us that this data in all cases was very useful. You also showed us that in some cases the data was necessary. However, the (British EU) Presidency has not yet submitted a study that refers to all those cases wherein while data was useful it was not necessary. It would be useful if you could do this.

- Charles Clark

The book shows Clinton in the presidency as a profile in growth.

- Sidney Blumenthal

Anybody who wants the presidency so much that he`ll spend two years organizing and campaigning for it is not to be trusted with the office.

- David Broder

You win the presidency by connecting with the American people`s gut insecurities and aspirations. You win with a concept.

- Thomas Friedman

I think it has sullied his presidency. As brilliant a politician as Bill Clinton is, as magnetic a personality as he can be, there is one little screw loose somewhere.

- Morley Safer

While I`m critical to the Bush presidency, it`s been enormously beneficial for Salon because we`re seen as kind of an aggressive watchdog on the Bush White House. Particularly since Florida, our readership hit a whole new level, and we held onto those readers.

- David Talbot

The entire economy, of course, is locked in a down cycle right now. Last time we weathered this was during another Bush presidency in `90. We were locked in it for a year and a half and everyone came out of it.

- David Talbot

Prince William`s enthusiasm for football both as a player and a fan is well known and we believe his presidency will prove a great asset to the national sport,

- Geoff Thompson

Prince William`s enthusiasm for football both as a player and a fan is well known and we believe his presidency will prove a great asset to the national sport.

- Geoff Thompson

He is a strong president ... but he has never really focused on the importance of good execution. I think that is true in many parts of his presidency,

- William Kristol

Well, my constituents are happy that the Republican Party has finally gotten off its duff, seeing that we do control the House and the Senate and the presidency, and taken up the issue of illegal immigration.

- Alan Norquist

I read the book with interest, but when Jackson was a candidate in 1828 for the Presidency, I opposed him and voted for Adams. I favored a protective tariff.

- Alena Nardinger

There have been at least three other cases in which federal agencies have succeeded in placing fake news reports on television during the Bush presidency. It was a really good tour. It seemed maybe about a week too long.

- Alex Colletti

Kennedy did not have to run the risk of having his ideas and his words shortened and adulterated by a correspondent. This was the television era, not only in campaigning, but in holding the presidency.

- Alexei Pushkov

There has been so much power concentrated. There is no leash on that power anymore and Americans face the situation that this power is getting momentum with each passing year with each presidency.

- Alfred Hamilton Barr

With me it is exceptionally true that the Presidency is no bed of roses.

- Alfredo Alonso

Our aim, during our Presidency in the next six months will be to lead this challenge, to show that Europe can function in a mature and responsible way, to start delivering tangible results that show we are taking people`s concerns seriously.

- Alison Mau

But we need to show that the EU can modernise itself, can adapt to the needs of its citizens, can take their views into account. That will be our ambition for the UK Presidency.

- Alison Mau

President Ford was a devoted, decent man of impeccable integrity who put service to his country before his own self interest. He helped heal our nation during a time of crisis, provided steady leadership and restored people`s faith in the presidency and in government.

- Amanda Anderson

I reached a situation in which I cannot conduct the presidency.

- Amber Pruitt

I still believe the Lewinsky investigation was way off from the focus of what Whitewater was, which turned out to be nothing at the end of the process. And I think that there were people who were determined as political opponents to not allow his presidency to succeed.

- Amy McFarland

All respect for the office of the presidency aside, I assumed that the obvious and unadulterated decline of freedom and constitutional sovereignty, not to mention the efforts to curb the power of judicial review, spoke for itself.

- Andre Woodson

Arrogance of Power Reborn: The Imperial Presidency and Foreign Policy in the Clinton Years ,

- Andy Daigle

It`s clearly an accident, but the fact that the White House didn`t release this information, that it sat around for almost a day is, in itself, bizarre. Late-night comics are going to be all over it. You know, these things ? fairly or unfairly ? tend to become a metaphor for a presidency and don`t be surprised if you see lots of jokes about the vice president was trigger happy, or he might have had better aim if he`d served in Vietnam.

- Anita Mitchell

twilight of the imperial presidency.

- Anne Crowley

In terms of defining this presidency, the next several months are critical.

- Anthony Swinger

For the immeasurable contribution of Ronald Wilson Reagan to the office of the Presidency, and to our great nation we all owe a debt of gratitude. Thank you, Mr. President. On behalf of all the men and women who served our nation under your Presidency, and those inspired by you who serve today. I salute you, sir.

- Art Stovall

The life and legacy of Ronald Reagan so shifted the paradigm of the American Presidency and the character of our nation that it becomes easy to overlook some of the smaller, more personal changes he brought to his office.

- Art Stovall

The vice-presidency isn`t worth a pitcher of warm piss

- Artemisia Gentileschi

He kept the place going while President Graham in particular pursued the additional ends of those involved in the presidency.

- Arthur Andersen

We have entered the era of the "imperial" former presidency with lavish libraries, special staffs and benefits, around-the-clock Secret Service protection for life and other badges of privilege.

- Ashley Altman