In a rational society we would want our presidents to be teachers. In our actual society we insist they be cheerleaders.
Steve Allen
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The secretary of defense under cover of the vice president's office.
Lawrence Wilkerson
The president's decree to withdraw from the Council of CIS Defense Ministers does not mean that Georgia is withdrawing from the Commonwealth of Independent States.
Georgy Arveladze
He pretended to care for the people of Iraq after he and other presidents before him have killed by the use of weapons, including depleted uranium, and by the blockade which is now more than 12 years old, more than 1 million and 700,000 innocent Iraqis out of a population of 25 million citizens.
Saddam Hussein
Why don't presidents fight the war?/ Why do they always send the poor? ... B.Y.O.B. (Bring Your Own Bombs).
Daron Malakian
It was not requested in the President's budget, was non-competitive, was not the subject of hearings and appeared only in the House version.
John Peterson
This was the first test of the president's pledge to end our oil addiction. At the rate we're going, we're not going to get out of rehab.
Charlie Miller
He's the president's alter ego on political and domestic policy.
Capt. Charles Blackwood
The president's proposed budget allows us to concentrate on our core mission.
Kristine Foye
In the days of Caesar, kings had fools and jesters. Now network presidents have anchormen.
Ted Koppel
I think that it's really necessary for college presidents to be excited about the SA and to come to their college [cabinet meetings] and really show that they're enthusiastic about the issues.
Althea Tupper
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
Our best presidents have really combined domestic leadership with heroic achievements in foreign affairs or war.
Allan Lichtman
I do not intend to allow the Senate to rubber-stamp the president's plan to reward the Chinese Communists.
Jesse Helms
If presidents can't do it to their wives, they do it to their country.
Mel Brooks
I love to get dressed up. After high school is over and there are no more proms, there's usually little to look forward to in terms of dressing very formal. The President's Ball gives me a chance to do that.
Whitney Prather
This year has been our vice president's first full year on the job, and I think we've done some pretty good things.
Frank Whitlatch
One of the things that was clearly a part of the president's decision was that all of his generals were telling him it was time to leave.
Lawrence Eagleburger
How important is it if the FBI discovers that there's -- for a lack of a better word -- the president's DNA on this dress?
Bob Schieffer
When presidents start to become theologians on a regular basis, they begin to exclude people from their audience.
Barry Lynn
The inaugural parade is like an extension of the president's personality, ... Dwight Eisenhower, for example. A conservative guy. A military man. Short and simple was what his inauguration parade was all about.
Charlie Brotman
This is the President's version of diversity. It's a contest to see who can hate us more. [Bush] couldn't possibly distance himself more from the people he's supposed to serve.
Thom Lynch
About six million hectares have been allocated since 2002 -- these will all have to be reviewed. Now this has the president's signature, it may make officials think twice about allocating any more.
Filip Verbelen
The president doesn't have a Blackberry. Andy Card's e-mails are like the president's e-mails ... there are serious and legitimate constitutional questions about that.
David Marin
Gonzales is really the only candidate who satisfies each and every one of the president's substantive criteria.
Brad Berenson
We need to bring a plan to our presidents that is comprehensive and informed.
Rick Chryst
The president's most solemn responsibility is to protect the American people. He is committed to doing everything in his lawful power to prevent attack.
David Almacy
I want to start by saying something nice about President Bush. Of all the presidents we've had with the last name of Bush, his economic plan ranks in the top two.
Senator John Kerry
We moved the president's agenda and have a Supreme Court nominee whom people are happy with.
Mike Dewine
Hydrogen fuel cells will play a key role in a clean energy future, but the president's plan won't get us there.
Daniel Becker
He drives a Volkswagen Beetle around in an age when you have university presidents who have French chefs in their houses.
Travis Reindl
We dedicated 17 new flags during this President's weekend and the groundbreaking was for the parking lot and landscaping improvements and getting ready for the 50th.
Pastor Michael Birnbaum
It's interesting because our athletic directors, presidents and commissioners are quieter than they've ever been. There were so many different opinions leading up to the decision on the format that I think people are just enjoying the relative calm and quiet now that it's in place.
John Junker
After the Presidents Cup I had two weeks off, followed by a tournament, the Australian Open, followed by another week off, a week of practice and [then came] here. There wasn't like a big cross through December where there was no golf.
Stuart Appleby
One of the embarrassing problems for the early nineteenth-century champions of the Christian faith was that not one of the first six Presidents of the United States was an orthodox Christian.
Mortimer Adler
A less visible part of the damage done by Katrina may be what's happened to the President's approval rating.
Charlie Cook
We didn't kill them. The court sentenced them to death. There is a huge difference between killing and transferring the defendants to the court. They carried out an operation, an attempt on the president's life.
Barzan Ibrahim
One can argue whether it's slowing down fast enough, but it is slowing down. We're doing better than business as usual. That's the president's goal.
Harlan Watson
Two guys came up behind me, grabbed me, and pulled me out, ... I was in a lot of pain. It was really humiliating to be dragged out of an event in a president's office.
Andrea Mitchell
There is a putting green right next to the president's cabin. Most people who have been here talk about the bowling alley. (Clinton) loves to bowl.
Pj Crowley
There's no question that the president's policies have failed miserably -- by firing his economic team, he was forced to admit this to the entire country, ... The president must change his misguided economic policy now and focus on the economic insecurity of American families.
Bob Menendez
If you examine the core areas you'll find great commonality between the president's commission proposal, the Democrat plan and the Republican plan.
Bill Thomas
Golf is a game kings and presidents play when they get tired of running countries.
Charles Price
This was the working relationship that President Summers had with the Harvard faculty and the Harvard Corporation, the trustees. The advocacy by presidents from other institutions wouldn't really have had an impact on that.
Tim Mcdonough
Presidents who are low in the polls have a hard time getting Congress to go along with them. He has to persuade the people in Congress to follow his legislative agenda and they're all worried about 2006.
Charles Franklin
By designating the day as Presidents Day, as opposed to separate birthday celebrations, it is too easy to associate the day with a current president. When part of the citizen body is disgruntled with a current president, many reject the day out of disapproval of the administration then in the White House.
Buddy Howell
Our country is not in crisis; there are no tanks in the streets, ... No matter what the outcome of the president's situation, life in America will go on. Our lives will continue to be filled with practical matters, not constitutional ones.
Jennifer Dunn
When American presidents prepare for foreign wars, they lie.
Robert Higgs
And apart from all the urgent loss the President's legacy is on the line as well. Not only in how he's perceived as handling Katrina but also on that major task, filling those two Supreme Court vacancies. David.
Kelly O'donnell
There has been this legitimate concern that he has been isolated. It is a smart move on his part to do this. Presidents in the past have frequently called in the old guard. He gets the benefit of hearing different views and is seen as getting out the bubble.
David R. Gergen
My favorite song is "I Left My Heart in San Francisco" because it's become my signature song. I sang it for six American presidents and five command performances... it's made me a world citizen.
Tony Bennett
Well, I could do that also, but it was the Presidents.
Lanny Poffo
The final candidate will be the president's selection, but the trustees will still have to confirm that selection.
Deedie Dowdle
We can see who was granted clemency and why, ... The big donors to the President's campaign were able to buy justice, something we just couldn't afford.
Leonard Peltier
When it is played outside America the President's Cup is infinitely more interesting.
Greg Turner
Kerry's words will ring hollow in light of the fact that he helped block the president's energy bill to increase America's energy independence through more renewable energy usage.
Steve Schmidt
I am representing all union leaders and if I allow what happened to me to go untested, then any old group could band together and overthrow the decisions of their presidents.
James Kemp
He's the one guy who, among modern vice presidents, is so aloof and so remote from ever making public statements and being in the public eye, even in a functionary capacity.
Gerald Shuster
I hate to waste the president's time talking about house trailers but that's what we were discussing.
Donald Bollinger
Governor Taft has presided over a Republican culture of corruption in Columbus that includes pay-to-play schemes with lobbyists and workers' compensation funds being funneled to the president's re-election campaign.
Josh Earnest
We were having the annual board meeting on the same date the president's budget was released - Feb. 6. We certainly didn't expect this.
Marilyn Black
The president's insistence on spending restraint resulted in both the highway and energy bills coming in far less than originally proposed by Congress.
Scott Milburn
The federal budget picture is ... is steadily declining out over the next five years ... toward the President's goal of cutting the deficit in half, ... I feel confident that we will remain on that path as long as we have continued good economic growth.
Joshua B. Bolten
The president's death is the most difficult moment for the people, the institutions and the international community in Kosovo.
Nexhat Daci
The matter must be discussed further. It's not just a matter of us taking action against teams. Perhaps we must also think of incentives to help the teams in this respect. This will be discussed by the presidents' council.
Mveleli Ncula
It is the President's prerogative to appoint people to his cabinet, but there is a commitment to co-government at all levels.
Marthinus Van Schalkwyk
The presidents of colleges have to have some courage to step forward. You can't limit alcohol in college sports, you have to get rid of it.
Dean Smith
In the past, presidents set up buffers to distance themselves from covert action. But this president, who is breaking down the boundaries between covert action and conventional war, seems to relish the secret findings and the dirty details of operations.
A. John Radsan
I have spoken to the cricket board presidents of the other Test nations from Asia (Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh) and have reached an understanding.
Sharad Pawar
It was not the vice president's fault.
Katharine Armstrong
The goal is to open the process to get the best people in the room and hire the best people. We feel like once that process is opened up, more African-Americans are going to be hired as presidents, more are going to be hired as athletic directors.
Richard Lapchick
Military's job is to win the war. The president's job is to win the peace.
John Kerry
We think, in some areas, she provided erroneous testimony that is in disagreement with the president's testimony, and particularly in specific areas having to do with the grand jury.
Gregory Craig
The average House loss in the mid-term for the president's party is 30 seats, and the president's party on average has lost Senate seats in the last two-thirds of 22 elections.
Mary Matalin
We will continue to work with Republicans and Democrats in Congress to enact a tax cut plan consistent with the president's approach.
Claire Buchan
To me it means that the president?s policy is hypocritical and deceptive. It is not a secret that embryos are destroyed at infertility clinics.
Art Caplan
The budget slashes the energy efficiency programs that are the first step toward the president's goal of curing America's oil addiction.
Bill Prindle
The vice presidents (of each school) have talked and it's done as far as we're concerned.
Jaye Tashima
This year, more than anything. we want to take it (the President's Cup).
Magesh Chandran Panchanathan
A lot of Americans don't pay attention to their leaders on a day-to-day basis. They measure presidents, governors and mayors on how they handle big events like a hurricane. This event is not over because the bodies are going to be discovered day by day.
Robert Blendon
I'm one of the lucky [ethics officers]. The program isn't going to work if I don't have the full direction and control from my management and board of directors. The program would look great on paper, but it wouldn't mean anything. It's the fact that the CEO and division presidents stand up and say [to the entire company], 'You will comply, and you will be ethical.' That makes the difference.
Patrick Gnazzo
In an election year, when the president's popularity is waning, I can't see Republicans walking the plank for him.
Stan Collender
Of all the Presidents I've served or observed, George W. Bush is the least receptive to the opinion of others. He has no interest in what others think and he doesn't listen to the advice of experts or professionals.
George Harleigh
The president's trip has intensified the pace of discussions among the parties and between the governments, and I think that's good.
Sandy Berger
I'm trying to come up with an idea that meets the (president's) criteria, but which is sufficiently dramatic that it moves people off tax rolls and makes it very difficult for Congress to bring them back in.
Michael Graetz
These are desperate days for the Bush campaign with the president's job approval in the danger zone.
Chad Clanton
Uncharacteristically, the president's ratings have slipped most among his core constituents -- Republicans and conservatives.
Andy Kohut
A trip to India is no longer just a desired - but a required - part of an American president's itinerary.
Karl Inderfurth
We were given a 100-percent funding for the first time in 2005. At present, in connection with the president's demand that the deployment of the GLONASS system be expedited, we are specifying the program.
Anatoly Perminov
We presented all the options, but the president and the two vice-presidents want to see the first match before making any decision.
Grant Mayer
I think it's fair to say that over the course of the Bush presidency, if Dick Cheney had had his way, there would have been much less attention paid to him than there has been. That's the exact opposite of what vice presidents historically have had to deal with.
Rome Hartman
Every presidency has a main theme, a central purpose, ... Different presidents have different strengths.
Richard Freeland
The health of American families built upon marriage affects us all. And this is why the president's plan to use a modest portion of welfare funding to invest in building stronger marriages in America is good social policy.
Matt Daniels
Talking Back...to Presidents, Dictators, and Assorted Scoundrels.
Andrea Mitchell
What history dictates is even relatively weak presidents have often gone for home runs with nominees.
David Yalof
It is the president's decision to make and he will decide when it is appropriate to let the American people know he has made it.
Dan Bartlett
We are not trying to limit the President's ability to go after terrorists.
Neal Sonnett
Did not reflect the changes in the president's policy, but rather the strengthening of the government.
Sergei Markov
She did not say the president's childhood in any way caused his behavior, nor does she believe that. I think that she was basically stating some feelings about his childhood, but that they do not excuse his behavior.
Marsha Berry
To have the court step in and say we want to review the president's decisions as he's acting as commander in chief, that's significant.
Scott Silliman
This problem of overcrowded jails has been with us for a long time, even before the president's term began in 2001.
Ignacio Bunye
This is a member of the president's official family.
Sheldon Goldman
War Made Easy: How Presidents and Pundits Keep Spinning Us to Death.
Norman Solomon
Given that the last two Presidents -- Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo and Joseph.
Joseph Estrada
This is a step toward hereditary succession of the president's position.
Muhammad Habib
I have 3.5 million customers including ex-US presidents Ronald Reagan, Jimmy Carter and movie stars who have purchased land on the moon.
Dennis Hope
The senator believes we live in a country where no one is above the law -- and that includes senators and presidents. He believes that it is appropriate that the matter be looked into by the appropriate people.
John Ullyot
They're passing bills they know the president's going to veto. They're interested in confrontation. They have no interest in trying to really solve the problems this country faces. This is a do-nothing Congress.
Martin Frost
Impeachment should be reserved for treason, bribery, and high crimes and misdemeanors where the president's actions are great and dangerous offenses or attempts to subvert the Constitution and the most extensive injustice.
George Mason
Maybe second term presidents have been on the mountaintop too long, breathing rarified air, and think they can do anything.
Allan Lichtman
That is a phenomena we're going to have to work on, ... The collegiate model that Myles is talking about won't work if we don't get a renewed vigor on the part of the presidents to be engaged in the NCAA.
Robert Hemenway
She supports the president's position when she agrees with him and stands up to the president when she doesn't.
Terry Carmack
We know that (Bush) is not very popular in our state. But I think Chris has been loyal to the presidency and this is the president's reward to Chris.
Diane Farrell
We additionally welcome the formation of a new President's Council on Student Affairs, which will give students another vehicle for advising the administration on matters of student interest.
Abraham H. Foxman
Historically the problem for Presidents has been patching together an alliance of splintered parties in order to achieve anything. Those days appear to be over. One would expect the markets to react positively.
Rupert Stebbings
When you have an economy that's picking up speed it certainly will have an effect on the election and benefit the candidate from the president's party.
George Grayson
Based on the presentation that we heard today, there are more issues then the last time we sat down, ... It fails to target tax relief on middle incomes as the president's approach would do.
Franklin Raines
To be a great president, you have to have a war. All the great presidents have had their wars.
James Crowe
There's a group of us that really want to make the team and to win for Jack. He deserves a Presidents Cup win after going around the world twice and not getting one.
Davis Love Iii
The president's premeditated assault on the administration of justice must be interpreted as a threat to our system of government.
Steve Buyer
St. Paul is Exhibit A of the damage the president's weak political standing is having on his allies. The only difference is one has a George W. mask on and the other one doesn't.
Larry Jacobs
The important thing is that we recognize our President's leadership, that he is not saying: I am going to walk away from this. He is saying: I am going to do the right thing.
Kay Hutchison
The president's a proud conservative ... His priorities reflect this and his agenda reflects this.
Tracey Schmitt
Anything less … may generate opposition to the nomination from the president's own supporters.
Chuck Cushman
I don't think that's in the president's character. Do you expect him to reject his conservative supporters? These are people the White House has built the entire administration around.
Sean Rushton
These are desperate days for the Bush campaign with the president's job approval in the danger zone. They are desperately using the politics of fear to try and distract from President Bush's failed record on the economy and Iraq.
Chad Clanton
Nowadays even presidents, vice-presidents, and heads of big agencies are opening their minds to accept psychic phenomena, because they know it works.
Uri Geller
It's easy for us to talk about what the United Nations or NATO or some others may say. But the president's going to do what he was elected to do.
James Inhofe
I wouldn't look to Mr. Clinton for moral guidance, but I look to him for dealing with the issues that, historically, other presidents have avoided, and I look for him -- to him for caring about humanity and caring about our country and keeping us out of war and keeping the budget, and he's done all those things, ... Veronica's Closet.
Kathy Najimy
They are designed for senior management, vice-presidents of large corporations, because they are right now in-between services.
Hans Schwab
The President's budget represents a starting point for what is certain to be a long debate in the Congress over the priorities of government.
James Talent
Presidents come and go, but the Supreme Court goes on forever.
William Howard Taft
I will be a hypocrite if I stand before an audience and applaud the President's track record at YSU when I introduce him as part of the program.
Tom Shipka
And I think we're going to have a healthier and a better educated workforce if the president's budget requests for increases are approved.
Thad Cochran
America's economic recovery is now well underway thanks to the President's tax relief.
Donald Evans
All the President?s Men.
Hal Holbrook
Even in countries that have thrown out presidents, almost every one of them has gone back to elections as the only way to choose new leadership. There's just no other way to do that now. That makes Latin America different.
Peter Hakim
Develop leaders of the next generation, and not necessarily CEOs and presidents.
Robert Sternberg
For me, to have this opportunity to introduce presidents of the United States -- I'm overwhelmed.
Charlie Brotman
Presidents always get in trouble in second terms. He's in more trouble than most.
Steffen Schmidt
It is logical to begin talks [on forming a coalition government] only after the official announcement of the election results and to sign any coalition agreement only the official announcement of the election results. This is the president's position.
Ivan Vasyunyk
If the country is dissatisfied with the direction of the leadership, the direction of the country, dissatisfied with the president's performance, frustrated with the inaction or action coming out of Congress, voters tend to respond to a `time for change' message.
Stuart Rothenberg
That established the precedent for American presidents to take military action abroad.
Walter Borneman
This shows that three co-presidents is certainly one too many, and may be two too many. It's a tough political environment at Oracle.
Charles Di Bona
But when she had information that according to her would help demonstrate the president's innocence ... she selfishly refused to provide it to the grand jury or anyone.
Julie Myers
We're certainly disappointed he can't attend. He is in the president's and Mrs. Bush's thoughts and prayers.
Susan Whitson
The president's idea was dead on arrival. Now it is well beyond rigor mortis.
Robert Schaeffer
The key issue is to get a commitment to solve the problem of identity cards for northerners but the President's party is worried that this means they might lose power in the next elections.
Gilles Yabi
We were overwhelmed by the response to this. Names came from everywhere. Past presidents, well known movies, names based on the penguins' black and white coloring and names that translated into different languages.
Martin Vince
That's a hubris that, if he had paid attention to what happened to himself and other presidents, he wouldn't have made that mistake. It was a very predictable mistake.
George Edwards
The president's speech changed zero for us; it was simply a recognition of what we already knew.
David Calhoun
We always tell people who come in with big orders that signing up for one of our President's Club memberships would be a good idea.
Jeanette Morrisett
I would be a little uncomfortable if they asked me ahead of Greg. He put a lot into the Presidents Cup and he's done a lot for international golf.
Nick Price
The institute's hand should not tremble in calling the president's attention, in giving him a yellow (penalty) card.
Roberto Madrazo
I head a nation of a million presidents.
Chaim Weizmann
It was approved by the president's council and the white paper was accepted.
Van Huyssteen
Nobody among the crop of fiscally conservative but socially progressive presidents that we now have around the region is going to go to his defense.
Riordan Roett
I don't think that Pakistan's opposition parties are included in the US president's schedule.
Raza Rabbani
The death of chief justice Rehnquist and the president's nomination of John Roberts raises the stakes for the court and the American people exponentially.
Ralph Neas
We are deeply disappointed that the administration has chosen, once again, to eliminate federal funding for education technology. Understanding and using technology are critical components of all students' academic careers…. We do not see how eliminating federal education technology funding advances [the president's] global competitiveness agenda or helps our students.
Don Knezek
It's a known fact that the two presidents have their problems, but Berlusconi has always asked us to be a team respectful of its opponent, on the field and off, and to win with your feet, not with your mouth.
Clarence Seedorf
Certainly, the specter of this grand jury investigation hanging over the White House doesn't help the president's approval ratings.
Bill Sammon
The fiasco in Iraq and the president's response to the Hurricane Katrina catastrophe were Mr. Bush's two most spectacular foul-ups.
Bob Herbert
Hopefully, when the next Presidents Cup is held here, we will have those amenities in place so that money stays in Prince William.
Sean T. Connaughton
All the President's Men.
Jason Robards
I'd say it has all the makings of a palace revolt. The President's base is not only eroding?in many cases it's in full mutiny.
George Harleigh
I want to kill the president because I no like the capitalists. I have the gun in my hand, I kill kings and presidents first and next all capitalists.
Giuseppe Zangara
The president's plan is the wrong solution.
Alan Holmer
This indictment marks an important milestone in the life of the president's Corporate Fraud Task Force.
James Comey
The president's striving for cooperation should in no circumstances be regarded as a demonstration of weakness.
Sergei Yastrzhembsky
[Yet he went on to make more than 50 feature films. After winning an Academy Award in 1976 for his role as Washington Post executive editor Bed Bradlee in] All the President's Men, ... Julia.
Dashiell Hammett
No sports, no music, no vice presidents - none of the things I'm good at. I got the French Revolution, which was not very kind to me, being a leftie.
John Shivers
Since the age of television, presidents have become like movie stars.
Robert Gilbert
Can anyone understand how it is to have lived in the White House and then, suddenly, to be living alone as the President's widow?
Jackie Kennedy
Democrats are pleased that more Americans are finding work, but this president's paltry 1.5 percent job-growth record is as bad as any president in the last 50 years.
Josh Earnest
When we were preparing the president's speech we had originally picked a different plot to try and declassify to talk about.
Fran Townsend
I am proud of the President's leadership. I am proud to support him in saying: Yes, we are going to do what is necessary now when it is less painful and less expensive.
Kay Hutchison
Both met with us, and they would very much like to sit down with us about having the Presidents Cup in 2011.
Mike Bodney
It appears the vice president's previous calls for civility are now inoperative.
David Carle
I've played three presidents, three saints and two geniuses - and that's probably enough for any man.
Charlton Heston
The President's address was lifeless, dull and directionless. It contained only hollow promises, contrary to facts.
Vk Malhotra
In a major constitutional case where the vice president's personal conduct is an issue, we are concerned. It certainly raises questions about the appearance of impropriety.
David Bookbinder
The Presidents Cup crowds were very loud the first couple of days and they weren't very friendly although over the weekend they were a lot better which surprised me.
Nick O'hern
He actually rubbed shoulders with presidents, leaders of countries, the head of the FBI, and ambassadors.
Martin Landau
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