A Quote by Neil Macdonald
The office of the president is meant to confer dignity.
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I do have to say when we read certain words being used to describe President Trump - it's never been done. It wasn't done about President Obama. It wasn't done about either President Bush, President Clinton, because people have a certain respect for and recognition of the dignity for the office of the president. And so I am beseeching everybody to cool it down a little bit.
To confer dignity, forgive. To express contempt, forget.
Some of the offers that have come to me would never have come if I had not been President. That means these people are trying to hire not Calvin Coolidge, but a former President of the United States. I can't make that kind of use of the office.... I can't do anything that might take away from the Presidency any of its dignity, or any of the faith people have in it.
When this president was sworn into office, he was handed a deficit of over a trillion dollars. Republicans were in control of Congress for much of the time that President George W. Bush was in office, and they didn't do a great job of controlling spending.
Office tends to confer a dreadful plausibility on even the most negligible of those who hold it.
What's funny about that office is it's entirely dependent on how close you are to the president, because the president decides what your role will be. If you get on with the president, that's great; if you fall out with the president, power can go away.
I didn't vote for President Obama, but I think he is our president, and I like and dislike decisions of any president in office.
Becoming a resident of a state may confer the right to get a driver's license, but it does not and should not confer citizenship.
When you confer a benefit on those worthy of it, you confer a favor on all.
Since taking office, President Obama has worked to restore a positive vision of American leadership in the world - leadership defined, not by the threats and dangers that we will oppose, but by the security, opportunity and dignity that America advances in partnership with people around the world.
The president made clear when he was a candidate for this office and when he took this office, that unfortunately prior to his taking office, because of the focus on Iraq, and the U.S. efforts there, that the original war, if you will, in Afghanistan had been neglected, the strategy there was unclear, and that it was not properly resourced.
The office of government is not to confer happiness, but to give men the opportunity to work out happiness for themselves.
For all the criticism I've been showered with - people calling me a betrayer, a backstabber - frankly, the only criticism I have of Manmohan Singh is that he weakened the office of the prime minister, and he brought down the dignity of the office.
When Heaven is about to confer a great office upon you, it first exercises your mind with suffering and your sinews and bones with toil.
Riches may enable us to confer favors, but to confer them with propriety and grace requires a something that riches cannot give.
Theodore Roosevelt, when he was out of office, he would do things to draw attention. But when you are president, you don't need to shout. When you are in office, you are the story.
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