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President Quotes
"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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"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."
49
"Like their predecessors, the Presidents of today just throw up their hands."
48
"I have great respect for President Bush, Secretary Powell and Secretary Ridge."
48
"The Chavez-Obama pictures will join a postmodern photo array that includes Donald Rumsfeld gifting Saddam Hussein with spurs from President Reagan."
48
"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."
47
"I feel very proud, even though they didn't elect me, to be President of the Argentines."
47
"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."
47
"I think it's less risky for the Kerry campaign to embrace former President Clinton than it is to reject him."
46
"I certainly know that this relationship could not have continued the way it did, when I was at the Pentagon and the president was obviously at the White House, without Betty."
46
"The President would usually talk to me about matters relating to the immigration problem."
46
"When you run for president of the United States, everybody does the same thing in the campaign-they talk about veterans, how much they admire them, how grateful they are."
46
"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."
45
"I support the president 100 percent - when he's right."
45
"Apparently, the image of our president is as offensive to MTV as it is to me."
44
"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."
44
"Most of the things that need to be said about the President are things he can't say himself."
44
"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."
43
"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."
43
"The last thing I wanted to do was to be a wartime President."
43
"It's not impossible for a woman - a Black woman - to become President."
43
"Ten of those Republican incumbents, all of whom voted for the impeachment of President Clinton, are from states that Bill Clinton carried."
43
"If you see the President, tell him from me that whatever happens there will be no turning back."
43
"Clinton was a pretty good president for a Republican."
43
"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."
43
"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."
43
"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."
42
"Ronald Reagan was the greatest president of the twentieth century."
41
"I'm not going to have some reporters pawing through our papers. We are the president."
41
"I must say I am not pleased to have to arrange the Senate schedule around the availability of Senators who are running for President."
41
"At least she's the president of something, which is more than I can say."
41
"As far as my relationship with President Putin is concerned, it's fine."
41
"Hey, I'm a former union president myself and also an attorney that represented a lot of unions."
40
"Some 43 percent of voters in union households voted for President Bush in 2004, according to exit poll data."
39
"The behaviour of President Bush on 11 September certainly gives rise to not unnatural suspicions."
39
"There were around 1,000 stores when I was made president."
38
"It's been years, decades, since a president has lost a major trade initiative. That would be bad headlines."
38
"I'm going to be so much better a president for having been at the CIA that you're not going to believe it."
38
"He has to do the heavy lifting and the windows and the wash, and also protect the president."
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