Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president.
Theodore Roosevelt
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When I became President, what surprised me most was that things were just as bad as I'd been saying they were.
John F. Kennedy
Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.
Douglas Adams
The President is the last person in the world to know what the people really want and think.
James A. Garfield
I shall not seek and I will not accept the nomination of my party for another term as your president.
Lyndon B. Johnson
We must make it clear that a platform of 'I hate gay men and women' is not a way to become president of the United States.
Jimmy Carter
No man who ever held the office of president would congratulate a friend on obtaining it.
John Adams
I might be President by now if it weren't for this 'queer' thing.
Gore Vidal
I believe with all my heart that one cannot be America's president without a belief in God, without the strength that your faith gives you.
George W. Bush
I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it. And I'm President of the United States and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli.
George W. Bush
Half of the American people never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.
Gore Vidal
Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so.
Gore Vidal
I've never heard of any president being so close to his people.
Ho Chi Minh
I never dreamed I would be doing a Ph.D., ... I never dreamed I would become a professor. I certainly didn't dream I would become a dean or the president of a university.
Joseph White
It appears that the President is included in the (assassination) attempt. Part of the plan is the attack on the Philippine Military Academy in February during the homecoming.
Tristan Kison
President Dan Johnson has the complete support of this board and all its members.
Dan Brennan
It is the duty of all those who value the Constitution to state that no one, not even a president, is above the law.
Arsalan Iftikhar
This country was the moral leader of the world until George Bush became president.
Howard Dean
The speech will give millions of Americans an impression of this president and his administration at a time when the edifice is shaky. And we never know until it is delivered how it is going to go or where it will go.
Wayne Fields
The nomination of a nominee with no judicial record is a significant failure for the advisers that the White House gathered around it. However, the president deserves the benefit of a doubt, the nominee deserves the benefit of hearings, and every nominee deserves an up-or-down vote.
Manuel Miranda
The vote was 10-8 the day President Bush nominated him, the vote was 10-8 when the hearings began, the vote was 10-8 yesterday, and the vote is 10-8 today.
Wendy Long
While President Bush remains focused on defending Americans against those intent on doing us harm, John Kerry remains focused on attacking President Bush.
Tracey Schmitt
A woman will be elected President before Wade Boggs is called out on strikes. I guarantee that.
George Brett
I am very pleased with what I heard from the president.
Prince Saud
She must be a president whose content, and not just her style, are different from Lagos'. Lagos did some very good things, but Chile needs to do a number of more good things to keep moving forward. Continuing the same policies will not make Chile a developed nation in 10 years.
Patricio Navia
Oh, great. This is going to be like shooting baskets with Magic Johnson watching. [On watching Independence Day with President Clinton].
Bill Pullman
If you can't convict a captain, how can you convict his president?
Harold Crouch
It was disappointing. That would have been a wonderful organization and a wonderful thing. [Chiefs President] Carl Peterson chose the coach that he felt was best for him and the organization at that time, and I understand that.
Al Saunders
The president will have a photo opportunity and make remarks congratulating the 2005 NCAA national champion Texas Longhorns.
Blair Jones
It depends who you talk to. There are people who are very upset about the president, ... But I have not felt that I want to make it a partisan issue in the campaign, so I have not had a lot of comment about it.
Don Sherwood
The first question I ask an advisor is, 'What are you saying now when someone asks you what you do?' Oftentimes the advisor says: 'I am a vice president with x brokerage.' This is too generic, and it's not client-centric.
John Nersesian
This capable team will be entrusted with preparing the defense case when the trial begins and disputing its legality and procedures that deny the President justice.
Abdel Haq Alani
I'm a conservative Republican, ... We need to support President Bush 's agenda. ... We have to have a culture that respects life, that respects the unborn.
Joe Ricketts
We can't deprive the paying members of their golf, even for an ex-president. But it would have been a buzz for the ladies. There's no Monica Lewinsky here -- we're better.
Wendy Alley
Now you have an Iraq war that Americans are turning against, and you have people saying it's all a Jewish conspiracy. But look at President Clinton's team: You had many Jews who aggressively pushed for peace in the Middle East. But these same critics don't see this as part of the same conspiracy.
Jack Rosen
The President of today is just the postage stamp of tomorrow.
Gracie Allen
This is an important time. The president is looking forward to having just a conversation with you.
Allison Barber
The secretary is honored to help the president implement his agenda to strengthen the economy.
Rob Nichols
A group of politicians deciding to dump a President because his morals are bad is like the Mafia getting together to bump off the Godfather for not going to church on Sunday.
Russell Baker
You know my father as governor, as president, but I knew him as dad. I was so proud to have the Reagan name and to be Ronald Reagan's son.
Michael Reagan
I expect Arab leaders, especially President Mubarak ... to call for the Palestinians to cease their hostilities and to return to negotiations with Israel. That was very important. Unfortunately, it was not mentioned there.
Nachman Shai
If you ask most Americans who represents the (Republican) Party, they're going to say George Bush, not any of the leaders of Congress. Nevertheless, the congressional Republicans are already looking at the day when President Bush leaves office and they're still around. So they're looking for their own distinctive identity.
John Pitney
The guy had no clue, ... But that was irrelevant. If (UC president Nancy Zimpher) didn't like what she saw, it's her prerogative to change it. Whether she's right or wrong doesn't matter. That's something in coaching you have to understand.
Bob Knight
If I had one goal, it would be to help the president and other members of the board get the positives out there and continue to hammer home that it's a great school.
Frank Hancock
She didn't think he was a very a good president.
Sandra Allen
Well, I decided earlier this year that I would run for president, and obviously I needed something to run on.
Craig Armstrong
He's got something that [agency heads] don't have, and that is immediate access to the president if the president wants to get this job done. And believe me, the presidential cache will go a long way on this one.
Porter Goss
The struggle between the local power brokers and satraps and the president is the invisible real politics, ... are preoccupied with elections, the relation between the president and the parliament.
Frederick Starr
We have a week more to choose the speaker of the parliament and his two deputies and also to discuss who is going to be the president.
Jawad Al maliki
It wouldn't be right for me to clown around when I'm painting a president.
Norman Rockwell
President Bush's energy program won't help lower gas prices or slow global warming.
Toby Chaudhuri
We will not allow you to sit here, conspire with the opposition and give them money to overthrow the president.
Ilham Aliyev
He's done a great job for us. We're fortunate to have someone who's a leader in Congress and has direct access to the president.
Dennis Kennedy
Congressman Tom DeLay has been an exceptional leader on Capitol Hill and Vice President Cheney looks forward to helping his re-election effort.
Jennifer Mayfield
We pressed on the president the importance of getting justice for Robert, and he said he's 100 percent behind our campaign.
Catherine Mccartney
The vice-president of an advertising agency is a bit of executive fungus that forms on a desk that has been exposed to conference.
Fred Allen
The president cannot suppress 'people power' with a superfluous and illegal edict.
Marlon Manuel
In our opinion, the market should be thankful that we avoided a possible surge in volatility which could have happened if President Bush picked a more unknown candidate.
Kathy Lien
But we are not afraid of any attacks or provocations. As the popularly elected president of the country, I will do everything possible to fulfill my obligations to the people.
Kurmanbek Bakiyev
Great numbers of Muslims support us in spite of (President) Bush's wish. We have continued to receive support from our Muslim brothers across the globe.
Mullah Dadullah
At this hour we still don't know whether the president has been chosen or if his election will be delayed until April 2.
Oscar Fonseca
The president has no right to share the sovereignty of this country. If the president is not going to withdraw this idea, we will be leaving the government on June 16.
Somawansa Amarasinghe
There does not appear, in our view, to be any legal basis in the Belarus constitution for the action that President Lukashenko has been taking.
Glyn Davies
I don't see [President Bush] overturning this.
Norm Dicks
I'm trying to do what the President said and only get it when I need it. But I think I need it.
Michael Bennett
Every president needs an SOB-and I'm Nixon's.
H. R. Haldeman
If someone comes in (as US president in 2009) and has no interest, he can just say, 'thank you for rationalising the space station' and leave it at that.
Robert Zubrin
The president continues to take his message to the American people, outlining his budget and tax cut plans, and the mercantile exchange is a good venue to talk about economic growth.
Gordon Johndroe
President Robbins was so well adjusted to his environment that sometimes you could not tell which was the environment and which was President Robbins.
Randall Jarrell
We passed an ambitious tax relief package last year, which the president decided to veto, ... This year we will continue to fight for tax relief for working families.
Dennis Hastert
During the meeting with President Carter, we proposed the development of a new kind of relationship with the United States.
Daniel Ortega
We are making sure that every possible pressure is brought to bear on President Mugabe, ... There has to be an end to the occupations and a start to elections.
Robin Cook
I am very concerned about the future of the country. I think it's time for the country to have a female president. She's been around. She has a plan.
Jorge Fernandez
Syria's in for a very dark period ahead, ... The president is in a real struggle to keep people close to him.
Joshua Landis
Hillary Clinton needs to be truthful, and for Bill Clinton to suggest that she not be, when we all know she's running for President, when he knows she's running for President, is less than truthful.
Jeanine Pirro
I wanted to be president of the United States. I really did. The older I get, the less preposterous the idea seems.
Alec Baldwin
There is nobody else. We can't operate without a president.
John Hoffman
Hunting is deeply ingrained in our folklore and heritage. Just like [former US president] Richard Nixon watched the Washington Redskins play football, here you go kill Bambi or some birds and you're part of one of the boys.
Thomas Myers
It's a legitimate political question, ... I would assume that they wouldn't make a decision on that without running it by the president of the United States.
Daniel Shea
We're very grateful that the commission and the president acted so quickly and we hope that this release happens as soon as possible.
Jennifer Bennett
There is a tragic flaw in our precious Constitution, and I don't know what can be done to fix it. This is it: Only nut cases want to be president.
Kurt Vonnegut
Accomplished a bit more for Bush than for Gore only because there were more question marks for Bush. I think he established that he possesses at least the minimum qualifications for being president.
Stuart Rothenberg
Once again, President Clinton is using American troops to deflect attention from his record of lies, distortions, obstructions of justice and abuse of power.
Byron Paulson
The House managers submit witnesses are essential to give heightened credence to whatever judgment the Senate chooses to make on each of the articles of impeachment against President Clinton.
James Sensenbrenner
I've never seen the president burdened by the presidency. He's built to deal with really big events. It's in his DNA.
Mark Mckinnon
If George W. Bush is elected under these circumstances, he will be an illegitimate president.
Peter Deutsch
It's a tough call for the president. It's a brave and correct decision on his part — and not without risks.
Strobe Talbott
There's no doubt this is connected to the events of Sept. 11 and the presence of President Bush.
Fernando Rospigliosi
This is the president who has said we are addicted to oil. But if this is the best we can do, we aren't going to get out of rehab.
Charlie Miller
I came here today to listen and learn and report back to the president. I'm prepared ... to go back and report to the president that these folks have done a great job.
Joe Allbaugh
When Kennedy first ran for president, why Frank, right away, got in and helped him, staged fund-raisers for him, performed at benefits, rallies.
James Bacon
It definitely didn't come from out of the blue. Danny (Ainge, the Celtics' vice president of basketball operations) and I have been talking about finding a spot for Marcus for a while.
Mike Higgins
There is no elections scheduled in the country soon and the opposition is weak, so the president may easily initiate some liberal steps and reforms.
Ilgar Mammadov
I blame the government. We're more dependent on foreign oil than we ever were and I blame (President) Bush for that.
Wayne Parker
Let me say, first of all, that I almost resent, Vice President Bush, your patronizing attitude that you have to teach me about foreign policy.
Geraldine A. Ferraro
The judge decided not to name a substitute president. With 48 hours to go to the congress, and considering the situation, it wasn't worth it to name someone for this ceremony.
Hein Verbruggen
After a good amount of consideration, discussion with friends and advisers and personal reflection, I have decided it would not further the goals of SGA to heed this call to resign my post as vice-president.
Preston Burnes
From Day 1, it's been clear that Senator Clinton's focus has been on running for president, not focusing on New York.
Ryan Moses
That's something I'm sure no university president enjoys announcing, especially as often as has happened here over the last four years.
Rodney Campbell
President Bush may believe he can authorize spying on Americans without judicial or congressional approval, but this program is illegal and we intend to put a stop to it.
Anthony D. Romero
This Bush administration has a growing credibility gap, maybe even a credibility chasm, on environmental policy. The President has lost the trust of the American people when it comes to the environment.
James Jeffords
President Lincoln was a truly great, great leader. It would do a lot to decrease the stigma of a disability, and to highlight the abilities of people who have ataxia, if he could be that great and have this.
Laura Ranum
It was always on the cards and they can justify it on the grounds that the new president will want his own people on the ground. But it sends all the wrong signals.
Ali Ansari
(Martin) told the president that we view it as a shame that we should have to take the U.S. to court in its own country to make that point. But we're more than prepared to do so - and we will do so.
Melanie Gruer
They're lying, just as they've lied about their kidnapping of President Aristide.
Ira Kurzban
Unless a pardon is ruled out by President Bush, the American people will certainly not learn the truth.
Valerie Plame
We need to see more political will and bold announcements by the President so that all line ministries can align themselves.
Luxon Zembe
There's no better salesman then the president.
John Feehery
Mr. Chavez has fed off the people's rage, and it is dangerous to perceive him as a vindicator rather than as a president.
Andres Perez
The presence of progressive governments can facilitate the coordination of policies among some of them, but as president, I will work with all regional democratic leaders.
Michelle Bachelet
What the alleged coup failed to do, in terms of weakening the peso, the president managed to. Clearly, this is detrimental to foreign sentiment.
Joseph Tan
I had announced at the Chennai meeting of the BJP National Executive that I will step down as president. I have done so.
L.k. Advani
The idea that the President also needs to go to the bathroom, I suppose, is of interest.
Jane Wells
Backstage I met Pete Townshend, Roger Daltrey, all these people, even (former President) Bill Clinton, ... It was way too much to take in in one day.
Rusty Anderson
What did the president know, and when did he know it?
Howard Baker
This is a whim of the president to change the position of the horse on our national coat of arms just because his daughter asked him to.
Oscar Perez
They had no mission but to sit at the airport, which is just like sitting in a bull's-eye. I begged the president at least to pull them back and put them back on their transports as a more defensible position.
Caspar W. Weinberger
To us, the biggest social issue of the day is what we are doing to the planet's atmosphere because of (President) Bush's decision to convert us to a coal-based electrical society.
Jim Dougherty
The bill that the president had introduced to the House and Senate just recently is much better than a lot of people are giving it credit for being, ... and I think if it were applied nationally, we would see most of the country with much, much cleaner air right away.
John Sheehan
This [language and criticism] is unbecoming of the president of Syria.
Walid Jumblatt
Our intent is to mount a protest drive along those streets that our president will not allow us to march on.
Vuk Draskovic
I think by even President Bush's own standards, the themes that he used in the campaign and after, he hasn't measured up.
Dick Gephardt
George W. Bush sided against people with disabilities in an important Supreme Court case. Now that he's running for president, he's changing his tune.
Douglas Hattaway
We must lead in a different way, ... We must have an active president, who gives strong direction and works with the government for its implementation.
Lionel Jospin
The Democratic Party will, one of these days, stop resisting the philosophy that President Kennedy briefly revived for his party. It will have to, if it ever again aspires to be the majority party.
Jude Wanniski
What President Bush encountered was the rising tide of resentment, both popular and among leaders ... that the Bush agenda just does not jibe with Latin America.
Bruce Bagley
The wild card here is which president will show up. Will it be the disinterested, annoyed and unprepared one? Or will it be the one we expect?
Joe Lockhart
As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.
H. L. Mencken
With the president, Republicans are of two minds. With national security, there is a level of content. But with economics, there is a general level of discontent.
Chip Hanlon
Clean air is a basic right. The responsibility to ensure that falls to Congress and the president.
Thomas Carper
The president always indicates he's still not satisfied, that job creation is not yet where it needs to be.
Claire Buchan
Is it that you hate this president or that you hate America?
Sean Hannity
The department [DHS] and the President have always favored a risk-based approach. It's members of Congress who have thwarted those efforts.
Marc Short
They're not overly happy with the president, they're not overly happy with what the Congress is doing, however they love their congressman.
Thomas Reynolds
Karl Rove [political adviser to the president] said the $87-billion vote is the gift that keeps on giving.
Bill Plante
I expect that the president and the prime minister will announce the resumption of formal negotiations at this summit.
Robert Fife
This started from the very beginning when David Addington, the vice president's lawyer, was a staunch advocate of allowing the president in his capacity as commander in chief to deviate from the Geneva Conventions.
Lawrence Wilkerson
He is right. The storm should be a warning to President Bush about the consequences of his climate change policies.
Tony Juniper
As President, I will end once and for all the use of taxpayer funds to promote the National Endowment for the Arts and other programs that subsidize amoral and degrading activities.
Gary Bauer
The president said that this is not removing a mole. You know, removing a mole, that's an outpatient sort of an operation. This was removing a cancer, removing a cancer takes more time.
Gordon England
I'd like to have the American people solidly behind the president. But again, if the president has to do it, he has to do it. And that's what leadership is all about.
James Inhofe
This is unacceptable. They are not following the law for the elections. A new president perhaps will help us.
Oliver Ivanovic
We are working to obtain documents from her tenure as the Dallas Bar Association president and the Texas state bar association president.
Dana Perino
The president just mentioned the technologies we do here are technologies that will help the nation use less petroleum. There's some importance that's been attached to that.
George Douglas
What I do know is that I don't know of any wrongdoing on behalf of the first lady or the president, and nothing the independent counsel can do to me is going to make me lie about them.
Webb Hubbell
He doesn't have to check with the press office to see what we've said before. He's the president, it's his prerogative.
Nicolle Wallace
You can help, but the credibility is not going to come from HHS. Some of it could come from [Homeland Security] and FEMA, but a lot of it has to come from the president himself.
Norm Ornstein
We are confident that the delegates will deliver today and elect Peter David Phillips as the next president of the PNP.
Paul Robertson
We need a President who is not afraid of complexity, who believes in an open and tolerant society, and who knows that the world can be made new again - and that President is Al Gore.
Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg
We all agree that we've got to bring these terrorists to justice and to make sure that they're never allowed to perpetrate such an evil act as they did. And so all of us are dealing with that. We know that the President has the authority to go to war under the War Powers Act.
Barbara Lee
The president has little budgetary room -- and even less political capital -- for any grand projects. If he can extend his tax cuts, it would be a big victory.
Barry Ritholtz
I support the president on the war on terror.
David Mcsweeney
Replacing President Miller is going to be a tough job because she's done so much for this campus.
Ryan Brunner
This is a tragic decision of a medieval monarch, not of a president of a developed democratic state in the 21st century. It isn't a bad bill and it is in the interested of the public to pass it, same as in other European countries.
Jiri Hromada
This proves that President Lansana Conte cannot take into account the opinions of his colleagues. We had been expecting this resignation.
Mamadou Ba
All of the sudden, the president now has two openings. That's not unique, but it's rare.
Allan Wolf
I don't mind losing to union people. I don't want management deciding who the next president of Council 94 is going to be.
Michael Downey
I think a lot of things go back on the front burner. We've been thrown a lifeline but we still need to be vigilant. Things could change. We have to monitor what the president does and then Congress. We've dodged a bullet.
Mark Forest
President Kennedy loved the entertainment world, ... We were asking him -- he was newly in office -- a lot of political questions and he said, 'Hey, I don't want to talk politics, I want to talk movies!' And he loved to talk movies, so certainly he loved being with Frank, because Frank was the most exciting man there was to be around.
Angie Dickinson
We're puzzled because the president has made a major part of his economic program an ownership society. What we are doing every day is helping people open businesses and grow their businesses.
Donald Wilson
The impeachment results do not necessarily mean that the president is strong. He is not. The results just mean that the opposition to the president is even weaker than most of us expected it to be.
Andrei Kortunov
I can confirm that His Excellency the President has accepted my letter.
David Mwiraria
President Bush is certainly expected to raise the issue of a possible visit by His Holiness to China and express his support for the ongoing dialogue between the envoys of His Holiness and Beijing.
Kate Saunders
The President can believe in his heart of hearts that he is picking a conservative nominee, and he can be surprised.
Tom Goldstein
CIA's mission is to provide the president and other leaders of our government with the best possible foreign intelligence to help keep our nation safe and strong.
Paul Gimigliano
My knowledge of the state of President Roosevelt's health was derived entirely from conversations, from newspaper articles and from photographs.
David Bruce
President Bush says he is concerned about the Iraqi people, but if Iraqi people are dying in numbers, then American policy will be challenged very strongly.
Peter Arnett
This address is a signal of strategies, and it will outline what the president can do in the next two years. And, the Democrats' response that will follow the address will highlight what issues Democrats will concentrate on for the 2008 election.
Bert Rockman
What that trade pact does to our farmers is criminal. If I become president, I will change it in at least seven areas, otherwise there won't be a trade accord with the United States.
Otton Solis
It is always an honor to be invited to appear with the Vice President of the United States.
Morgan Dobbs
Apparently Arnold was inspired by President Bush, who proved you can be a successful politician in this country even if English is your second language.
Conan O'brien
The job of the president is immensely difficult because he is under the constant glare of the public spotlight.
Jerrold Post
The Republicans and the president seem to have come together on a number of issues to arrive at a consensus. The deepening division is now between the Democratic President Bill Clinton and the Democratic leader in the House, Dick Gephardt, and a lot of this is positioning for the year 2000.
Stuart Rothenberg
What conservatives have realized during the last five years is that we have not elected a conservative president. Nor do we have a conservative majority in either the House or Senate.
Bill Lauderback
My dad fought in the Second World War, and it offends me when they put our military down. That's why I am here to defend our president.
Andy Lopez
I want the troops home, and I want the president to tell me why my husband had to go to Iraq, and why I had to become a widow at age 26, and why my son will never meet his daddy.
John House
The president looks across the cabinet table at the vice president and has to realize, 'The only reason he's there is in case I die.
Stephen Hess
I am delighted the president has signed this bill, ... Hawaii can now begin to develop alternative sources of water.
Daniel Akaka
We urge President Olusegun Obasanjo to protect the rights and well-being of all Nigerians, and disavow this dangerous bill.
Paula Ettelbrick
[Historian Michael Beschloss, an authority on presidential addresses, noted that President Bush used the expression] freedom from fear, ... he sees his presidency in very grand terms.
Michael Beschloss
I can't believe it, ... The president of Panama told me, 'You have no idea what you've done for our country.' He said people were jumping in the streets.
Nolan Richardson
Since then, I served on the parks board the last 141/2 years, the last four years as president of the park board.
Clyde Freshour
As a conservative, it troubles me that we would blow this kind of an opportunity. Maybe it's not blown. But it's an act of faith at this point. President Bush knows and the rest of us don't.
John Doolittle
This is the classic confrontation you see in Washington ... because the president now has been challenged directly by the leadership of the Congress and by the lobbyists and by the bureaucracy, ... American Morning.
John Lehman
I'm hopeful that we will see a decision that is clear and decisive as this recount moves forward that precludes the next president being determined on the floor of Congress.
Cal Dooley
There are a number of people who won't be president in 2009, and Mark Warner is one of them.
Grover Norquist
Her vision and my vision met. Our goals were one and the same. To have that kind of support from your athletic director and your president, the full package is a dream come true for a young coach.
Brenda Frese
In America any boy may become President and I suppose it's just one of the risks he takes.
Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.
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