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President Quotes
"Like their predecessors, the Presidents of today just throw up their hands."
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"Vice president - it has such a nice ring to it!"
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"Of the fellows least likely to be president, you'd have to vote Jack No. 1."
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"I didn't realize the president was such an historian."
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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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"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 have great respect for President Bush, Secretary Powell and Secretary Ridge."
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"There's never a dearth of reasons to shoot at the President."
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"It's pretty hard to say no when a vice president-elect and a president-elect ask you to be part of the national team."
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"The central question is simply put: What did the president know and when did he know it?"
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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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"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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"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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"President Clinton signed a $10 million deal to write a book by 2003. Isn't that amazing? Yes, and get this, not only that, President Bush signed a $10 million deal to read a book by 2003."
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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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"The stories have been told so often by those of us who supported President Reagan over the years that they seem mundane, almost like a fictional novel or a movie script."
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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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"A master of improvised speech and improvised policies."
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"I was ordained one of the standing High Council in Zion, under the hands of President Joseph Smith."
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"Ten of those Republican incumbents, all of whom voted for the impeachment of President Clinton, are from states that Bill Clinton carried."
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"I must say I am not pleased to have to arrange the Senate schedule around the availability of Senators who are running for President."
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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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"There were around 1,000 stores when I was made president."
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"I think President Clinton was probably the brightest President of the 20th century."
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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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"George W. Bush is not only a great president; he was a great candidate."
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"We are still waiting for the president to introduce a concrete plan. He has just hinted at what he is thinking about doing, but no one has seen a proposal."
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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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"It's been years, decades, since a president has lost a major trade initiative. That would be bad headlines."
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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 say that President Roosevelt probably was more intimately in touch with the press corps at the White House than President Truman was."
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"I support the president 100 percent - when he's right."
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"I'm always happy to have the President visit North Carolina. Unfortunately, the citizens of North Carolina who could be most adversely affected by the President's plan have not been invited to the discussion."
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"Ronald Reagan was the greatest president of the twentieth century."
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"I oppose the president's plan to privatize Social Security."
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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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"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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