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I don't know if the presidential candidates are running for the White House or Animal House.

Bob Hope

The legions of reporters who cover politics don't want to quit the clash and thunder of electoral combat for the dry duty of analyzing the federal budget. As a consequence, we have created the perpetual presidential campaign.

Hugh Sidey

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

Americans deserve better than Republican politicians with presidential ambitions who pander to racist organizations and their apologists.

Josh Earnest

The presidential vote in Peru is a matter of deep concern to us all, ... Left unexamined, it will certainly diminish the credibility of this organization.

Lloyd Axworthy

Today I am a candidate in the presidential election, ... in the spirit of responsibility, the foundation of authority.

Lionel Jospin

The impact of any news connected to the U.S. presidential election looks smaller than if it had come weeks earlier.

Tatsuhiko Takura

I've read about foreign policy and studied - I know the number of continents (during his 1968 presidential campaign).

George Wallace

The U.S. got its first clear glimpse of just how scaled-down his presidential objectives have become.

Gerard Baker

We have won this election. We have won both the presidential and parliamentary vote.

Ofwono Opondo

Looking at the numbers above... the NEC sees it prudent to begin preparations for a presidential election run-off.

Frances Johnson

This did not rise to the level of certainty which should be required for presidential speeches, and CIA should have ensured that it was removed.

George Tenet

Four years in the White House and two presidential campaigns is an awful long time, ... In politics, every year in the White House is like dog years, six years off your life.

George Stephanopoulos

You had an initial depression after John Kerry's loss, but now people are more energized and people are starting to look toward presidential candidates. Donors are as motivated now as I've ever seen them.

Chad Griffin

We are pleased that the Bush campaign has agreed to meet wit the bipartisan Commission on Presidential Debates. We look forward to that meeting.

Bill Daley

Presidential budgets have always been declared 'dead on arrival,' as long as I have been here.

David Drier

The upcoming presidential elections can result in a new era for Haiti or sink the country into further poverty and violence.

Susan Lee

Creating a winning coalition is the art of presidential politics and keeping everybody happy is hard and it's the core thing we do in coalitions.

Simon Rosenberg

I hope you are not thinking about delaying talks on creating the government by four weeks because of the presidential election.

Donald Tusk

[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

Mr. Guardia had an invitation to the White House. He went to the (presidential) inauguration. Every indication was that he was a reputable, upstanding person.

Mary Stillinger

Michigan Democrats renew their call for a fairer and more diverse presidential nominating process for the Democratic Party.

Mark Brewer

According to the presidential order (last week), and to the law passed by the parliament (last year), the order of resumption of uranium enrichment was issued.

Javad Vaeidi

No president has looked this impotent this long when it comes to defending presidential powers and prerogatives.

Tony Snow

The American government wants to talk about detained activists, but they probably won't talk about specifics during presidential visits.

Joseph Leung

She's as good as I've ever seen, as far as presidential material. President of the United States. That's how good she is.

Donna Lopiano

We will not allow the seizure of power under the guise of of presidential elections.

Stepan Sukhorenko

We are in a country that has experienced 25 years of presidential oppression, ... What kind of a future can we look forward to if the president of the party, on losing a free and fair poll, nullifies it?

Paul Themba Nyathi

An opportunity to prevent further fighting; to reassure the population; and to ensure the peaceful preparation of the upcoming presidential election.

Jean Arnault

It seemed to be a speech more appropriate for a political hack than a presidential candidate by someone who clearly fails to recognize leadership. It was a contradiction within a contradiction.

Tracey Schmitt

The new constitution is one issue that's most likely to be bound together either with the LY election of 2007 or even the presidential election.

Su Chi

Shortchange Americans by cutting tens of millions of people out of the presidential debate audience.

William Daley

If I had been permitted to run, I am sure I would have won. But I still have time for a future presidential election.

Carlos Menem

In fact, there is no relevant transformation in the country's political situation with the lifting of Presidential Proclamation 1017.

Carlos Conde

The age of Lincoln and Jefferson memorials is over. It will be presidential libraries from now on.

Ada Louise Huxtable

We have all the grounds to develop and strengthen a presidential-parliamentary model of state.

Kurmanbek Bakiyev

It's not ethical for the president to manage the state's resources at the same time he is a candidate. It's dishonest competition with the other presidential candidates.

Carlos Rodriguez

Judicial action might simply encourage congressmen to run to court any time they disagreed with presidential action [on a treaty or other foreign relations issue] or were on the losing end of a piece of legislation.

John Bates

If this isn't the Fat Lady singing, it's awful close to that. If Ari seriously thought she was a contender for the presidential nomination, he would not walk away right now.

Stu Rothenberg

The presidential race is not a beauty contest.

Jack Lang

Our prayer is that it will not only be a presidential humanitarian act, but that Congress itself would abolish capital punishment by legislative act.

Archbishop Angel Lagdameo

They know that if they lose the presidential elections, they will lose the next legislative elections.

Pascal Perrineau

Senator John Kerry, one of those two failed Democratic presidential candidates, said Otis plays a ''critical role in our defense and homeland security.

William Delahunt

This has got the attention of every CEO in America, ... How long can the president give mediation when he has all his friends calling him or [presidential political adviser] Karl Rove telling him there needs to be action.

Robin Lanier

Certain ambiguities in presidential succession.

Brian Baird

People have been asking me to declare my stand, whether I will go for the top seat. I want to say that when the opportunity comes, I will offer myself for the LDP presidential nomination. I will go for the top seat if picked by my party.

Raila Odinga

I have been very impressed with Alastair, but this won't be a presidential decision.

Jeff Kennett

'All politics is local' -- even in national Presidential elections. Just like what happened in 2000, we expect almost all of the national campaign spending to be done locally.

Michael Russell

The creation of a senate is in no way a move to improve legislative oversight. It has simply been created as an extension of presidential patronage, aimed at soothing bruised egos in the ruling party.

Paul Themba Nyathi

These elections are very important because until now it's been a presidential regime. Karzai has been elected, but it's a one-man regime. To have a Parliament is very important to give a democratic dimension to the regime.

Olivier Roy

The bank aims to prevent exchange-rate volatility in the run-up to the April presidential elections.

Guillermo Diaz

This year's presidential election has become market-moving.

Christopher Garman

In Ohio, it's particularly significant because that's the largest city in Ohio, and that is a key battleground state (in presidential elections), so Democrats clearly scored big wins out there.

Bill Schneider

The president (Harrison) is a draw because there are people who spend years visiting every presidential burial site.

Mike Dooley

The 1989 Presidential Decree states clearly that the permit expires in 2003.

Masyhudi Ridwan

I heard far more definitive answers than I heard from the previous debate between our presidential candidates.

Paul Jacobs

It was an international embrace. My first presidential hug — I feel pretty special.

Paul Dernier

Clearly, looking at the 2004 presidential election the issue of same-sex marriage resonated with African Americans.

Lamell Mcmorris

It just so happened that I was going to be her advisor for the Presidential Scholars program that summer.

Katherine Klem

This was the week that the administration discovered the tide wouldn't come in forever on presidential powers. Partly, that is because so much time has passed without a new attack. And partly, it is because there were so many missteps.

Richard Falkenrath

[Reacting to those comments by the Democratic presidential nominee, Cheney characterized them as an] attack ... the man American must stand beside to defeat the terrorists.

Ayad Allawi

I was communications director for [2004 presidential candidate John] Kerry in Florida, and we couldn't get Bob Menendez there enough to campaign for us.

Matthew Miller

The students who marched against the war, or who march for other things, are by and large not the students who get internships or volunteer for presidential candidates.

Michael Phillips

The first round of the presidential election and the legislative elections (just one round) will take place on June 18,2006.

Apollinaire Malu Malu

When a guy gets elected to the Senate or the governor's mansion, he wakes up the next morning and says to himself, 'You're presidential material,'.

Geraldine A. Ferraro

The issue here is safeguarding the power of the presidential party.

Gilles Yabi

We have had over 70 presidential candidates and, so far, over 4,000 parliamentary candidates.

Dieudonne Mirimo

This is not a decision that I have made easily, but I am convinced that the interests of the Institute will be best served by a presidential transition at this particular time in its history.

David Baltimore

Bob Casey did ads for John Kerry during the presidential campaign. He's considered one of Kerry's biggest fans. Like John Kerry, he's an expert at flip-flopping on the issues.

John Brabender

I considered it a presidential directive to get those pipelines operating.

Jim Compton

They are not ... being punished by the [presidential] administration - they are people who provoke those conflicts.

Lidiya Yermoshina

Anything between today and the presidential election is going to be seen as a tug-of-war between these two.

Guillaume Parmentier

We want to have a discussion, because a presidential American decision from Palo Alto saying ' there is a 10% cut because I'm here, and so that there is in an effect on the stock market', that's no company policy.

Francois Loos

This now has become a major political issue in the presidential election.

Ray Flynn

She can tap into what has been an astonishingly silent minority since the end of last year's presidential contest. It will capture attention.

Kellyanne Conway

Rulings against the president like these are catnip to congressional investigators. Their claws will be out to play with a weakened presidential mouse.

Charles Tiefer

Despite the massive attempts of rigging, our returns indicate our presidential candidate has won with a very small margin.

Ibrahim Lipumba

It's our belief that presidential papers belong to all the American people.

David Ogden

In the final analysis this congressional race is always going to be a close race, whether there's a presidential race or governor's race or not. But is this a better year? Yes, this would probably be a better year.

Baron Hill

We focus on their early lives together. We're the only place that focuses on both the Clintons instead of just President Clinton, which is what hope is focused on and the presidential library is focused on.

Joseph Barnes

Expectations of Fed action have gone though the roof. The market is looking for two 25-basis-point moves and one 50-basis-point move before the presidential election.

Chris Rupkey

My reading of that case is that the U.S. Supreme Court has said that the state legislature has plenary power, full power, in respect to appointment of presidential electors and that power cannot be eroded even by the state constitution.

Charles Wells

It has to be looked at in the context of whether this interim agreement is a valuable agreement and if releasing Pollard ... contributes to it. That's a presidential decision. That's why the president makes the big bucks.

James Woolsey

If [Bush and Rice] had paid attention to [the August 6th presidential briefing], my son would be alive. I think it's a disgrace.

Bob Mcilvaine

Hold their noses and say they'd take (presidential counselor) Alberto Gonzales over other likely choices, in part because Gonzales would irritate the right-wingers who irritate them.

Arianna Huffington

Here's what we do know: Polls are driving President Bush's court picks. At a low ebb in his presidency, the president has passed over well-known, if controversial, constitutionalists and chosen a sphinx-like presidential pal.

Mark Moller

As parliamentary speaker and under the constitution, I assume powers as head of state until the new presidential election.

Nino Burdzhanadze

They're watching, ... Warner has the responsibility as party leader to come up with someone who can give Allen a run for his money so Allen has to spend down the millions he's accumulating for his all-but-announced presidential bid.

Larry Sabato

The board is insulated in a wide range from any control from presidential oversight, from Congress.

Mallory Factor

His comments during his confirmation hearing and his record indicate that he is not someone who would defend civil rights and that he would side in favor of big business over the consumer and presidential power over individual rights.

Claire Mccaskill

He stood out. He became presidential.

Jerry Crawford

The presidential-nomination system favors the unemployed or the underemployed over the fully employed.

Stephen Farnsworth

This plan is coming out at a time when the nation is facing significant budgetary challenges. Getting agreement to move forward on it is going to be heavy lifting in the current environment, and it's clear that strong presidential leadership will be needed.

Bart Gordon

You can imagine him on the ticket, either as the presidential candidate or the vice president, and Virginia automatically becomes a competitive state.

Merle Black

One thing, however, is certain. Although we may never know with complete certainty the identity of the winner of this year's presidential election, the identity of the loser is perfectly clear. It is the nation's confidence in the judge as an impartial guardian of the rule of law.

John Paul Stevens

Vote for capable people who will lead this country and not take us into wars. Don't vote for presidential and parliamentary candidates who give empty promises that they can't fulfill. We need leaders who will deliver.

Henry Luke Orombi

... He can start the equivalent of his third term now , by filling his presidential staff and cabinet with new faces -- or old faces in new positions -- and by concentrating on new or forgotten initiatives.

Fred Barnes

It's the U.S. presidential situation ... markets don't like uncertainty. It's notable that the Nasdaq fell 15 percent in the first several days after the U.S. election.

Ben Funnell

New Delhi has joined the list of capitals to which a US presidential visit is now imperative.

Karl Inderfurth

Presidential candidates don't chew gum.

Theodore C. Sorensen

They wanted to use this as a wedge issue, perhaps for their presidential campaigns.

Joshua Hoyt

I think he has figured out there may be, on the national level, a lot of Bush fatigue going on. And that he's better waiting another presidential cycle.

Matthew Corrigan

The administration is claiming extraordinary presidential powers at the expense of civil liberties and is putting the president above the law.

Caroline Fredrickson

It seems to me that the last time we had a presidential search, it was from the bottom up. The faculty were much more involved. And of course this search has been completely different. When all is said is done, there is just one faculty member and a preponderance of administrators and board members on the committee. To me, that seems uneven.

Margaret Huber

Therefore, much of what has been written about the Outfit, the 1960 presidential election and other events involving the Kennedy family appears to be historical myth -- which along with other fascinating myths, should not be taken seriously.

John Binder

And this is significant because after the November 2006 congressional elections all political energy will turn towards the presidential contest [in 2008], which will be wide open in both parties.

William Galston

To vote only for one (1) presidential candidate and that they are to punch a hole next to the arrow next to the number next to the candidate they wish to vote for.

Robert Wexler

The presidential standard supports that position.

Tucker Martin

Presidential money is almost like the housing bubble. It's growing at such an astronomical rate, you think it can't get any bigger.

Chuck Todd

Look at where the gay community was five years ago and what's happened since the (2004 presidential) election.

Daniel Lipman

Shared an imperial vision of presidential power.

Peter Irons

This decision signals the de facto start of the 2008 presidential election campaign.

Dmitry Rogozin

Prolonged confusion in the U.S. presidential election and the growing possibility of a political crisis here mean investors are generally holding back.

Yutaka Miura

It really requires joint intervention (with the U.S. Federal Reserve), and no U.S. official is going to sanction that in a presidential election year.

Claudio Piron

We have closely followed matters regarding the presidential campaigns and are profoundly concerned about the misuse of public resources by or on behalf of the incumbent presidential candidate.

Charles Mubbale

By and large, people are not paying a lot of attention to the presidential race. There's not a lot of motivation to watch if your home has been damaged and your life has been turned upside down. ... And it's hard to watch TV if you don't have power.

Stephen Craig

Whoever wins the presidential election will have no choice but to meet us to discuss the peace process since the conflict involves us. So with this in mind, we are ready to meet any party that comes to power.

Daya Master

The letter will say this decision is illegal ... The president will issue a presidential order to cancel the appointment.

Tayeb Abdel Rahim

Keen judgment in setting the bar at a very high, but attainable, level; balance and unflinching boldness in the face of great pressure; and stress-leavening presidential humor.

Stephen Friedman

I think it was the first time in our society that they noticed on the presidential level that there are also some forces other than the authorities, business and political parties.

Lyudmila Alexeyeva

At their most influential, debates probably move public opinion only a few percentage points. But that can be critical. This year is close to being the perfect storm for presidential debates having an effect.

David Lanoue

I will watch with great attention what Fukuda decides (over the LDP presidential race).

Takenori Kanzaki

Over presidential politics ''is not something we want to participate in.

Eric Fehrnstrom

You can only judge him by his accomplishments, not the arbitrary yardsticks thrown around here in the run-up to the presidential campaign.

Eric Ueland

The blame game is a derogatory term for accountability and we've had failures on the part of government and our leaders at the local level, at the state level and at the presidential level.

Eleanor Clift

Initiatives tend to shape turnout substantially in non-presidential elections.

Elizabeth Garrett

The senator is grandstanding, not to provide solutions but to advance her presidential ambitions.

Edward Cox

The data we get from that and over the next few days will go toward justification for a presidential disaster declaration.

Ed Teixeira