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President Quotes
"I don't think anybody has that crystal ball but the president."
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"I feel very proud, even though they didn't elect me, to be President of the Argentines."
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"I don't know the answer to that question. I don't think it matters to the fundamental question here because at bottom, this president believes in non-discrimination."
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"Two years before the last election you nor anyone else would have predicted that Barack Obama was going to get elected president of the United States."
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"Vice president - it has such a nice ring to it!"
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"I think I'd be a better president because I was in combat."
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"We're going to hear a lot of spirited discussion about the President's plan in the next few days and weeks and that's fine as long as everyone comes ready to talk and not just snipe, complain and argue."
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"I didn't realize the president was such an historian."
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"If you don't like the President, it costs you 90 bucks to fly to Washington to picket. If you don't like the Governor, it costs you 60 bucks to fly to Albany to picket. If you don't like me, 90 cents."
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"President Jimmy Carter was a citizen soldier. Ironically, he was considered weak because he didn't kill anybody and he didn't get anyone killed."
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"I'm going to be a vice president very much like George Bush was. He proved to be a very effective vice president, perhaps the most effective we've had in a couple of hundred years."
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"There were around 1,000 stores when I was made president."
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"George W. Bush is not only a great president; he was a great candidate."
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"I have just come from the castle, where I have seen the president of the republic, and I can tell you that he has accepted all of my proposals without making any changes."
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"I'm a huge Obama fan. I think it's such an unbelievably great thing to have a President who's competent and not insane."
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"Look for what's missing. Many advisors can tell a President how to improve what's proposed or what's gone amiss. Few are able to see what isn't there."
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"I have great respect for President Bush, Secretary Powell and Secretary Ridge."
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"What's been extraordinary about this president, Tim, and what's unique about this president is not that the administration is sputtering but rather everything he's taken on he's been able to accomplish."
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"I'm not going to have some reporters pawing through our papers. We are the president."
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"I don't think there is one president that's come down the line that hasn't done something good somewhere."
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"Sure, it is apparent that presidents are looking at polls, but they are also stepping up on issues. President Clinton stepped up on tobacco. He shaped the polls on the tobacco issue."
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"Mr. President, I believe your real problem is that you have somehow been unable to realize that you have won, not only won, but been re-elected by a tremendous margin."
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"Clinton was a pretty good president for a Republican."
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"I support the president 100 percent - when he's right."
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"Anytime the president visits Nebraska its good for Nebraska."
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"Some 43 percent of voters in union households voted for President Bush in 2004, according to exit poll data."
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"I think it's less risky for the Kerry campaign to embrace former President Clinton than it is to reject him."
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"The president's budget proposals have neglected water infrastructure."
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"I said I didn't want to run for president. I didn't ask you to believe me."
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"When George Washington was elected president, there was no national vote."
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"We are worried about the size of the deficit, which is why the president is pleased that the House and Senate have followed his lead in cutting the deficit in half over the next five years."
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"What the president announced yesterday, is that somehow magically, if we just continue to prime the pump of taxpayer dollars, we're going to see magically an economic recovery."
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"The President then proceeded to read his Emancipation Proclamation, making remarks on the several parts as he went on, and showing that he had fully considered the whole subject, in all lights under which it had been presented to him."
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"I'm going to be so much better a president for having been at the CIA that you're not going to believe it."
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"I would never say President Obama doesn't have the capacity to continue to serve because of his statement that there are 56 states."
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"We, Norton I, do hereby decree that the offices of President, Vice President, and Speaker of the House of Representatives are, from and after this date, abolished."
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"Some years ago I became president of Columbia University and learned within 24 hours to be ready to speak at the drop of a hat, and I learned something more, the trustees were expected to be ready to speak at the passing of the hat."
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"Most of the things that need to be said about the President are things he can't say himself."
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"Yesterday, the president met with a group he calls the coalition of the willing. Or, as the rest of the world calls them, Britain and Spain."
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"He has to do the heavy lifting and the windows and the wash, and also protect the president."
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