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Last updated on November 19, 2024.
Although this should not be so, historians reconsider presidencies based on how the presidents conduct themselves after leaving office.
Obama represents one-world government, a.k.a. Neocolonialism. Presidents don't change anything locally - they only deal with foreign policy.
Even if you assume presidents were democratically elected they still have no right to keep secrets from the American people.
After being sworn in to office, vice presidents have usually been relegated to the sidelines, where they just don't get to do very much.
America's presidents tend to die young. Maybe it is in the nature of the men who reach such heights, or of the job once they attain it.
Our atheism family tradition is traced to a - I don't know if it was great-great or a great-great-great grandmother who was a poor Irish-American woman in the 1880s in western Montana.
The phone company handles 84 billion calls a year-everything from kings, queens, and presidents to the scum of the earth.
President-elect John F.Kennedy said to Robert McNamara that there's no school for presidents, or, for that matter, for secretaries of defense.
Traditionally Presidents Day was Washington's birthday. It was celebrated as a public holiday on February 22 each year, in peace or in war.
Former Presidents Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton and President Barack Obama, each were told repeatedly, 'You can't win.' They all won.
I wasn't any good at sports, but I could name all the presidents by the time I was six. I've always been very interested in politics and in religion.
In order to get big things done, sometimes, presidents have to be deft at moving the pea around under the shells.
Vice presidents are supposed to be eternally loyal, which is why it is so difficult for some to figure out how to succeed their bosses.
[Dan Fried] served six presidents over a 40-year career dating back to the [Jimmy] Carter administration.
I think that social media platforms and technology have been the accelerator for the push for the populist-style administrations in democratically elected presidents.
Americas presidents tend to die young. Maybe it is in the nature of the men who reach such heights, or of the job once they attain it.
Our chief justices have probably had more profound and lasting influence on their times and on the direction of the nation than most presidents.
From death's perspective, there are no differences between people; there are no presidents or flight attendants, no faiths or nations. There is just the person, always dear.
To give credit to Lincoln for moral progression seems beyond the facts and unnecessary for our appreciation of this arguably greatest of all American presidents.
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.
Obama has had more fundraisers than the last six presidents combined. And he's still losing in the money race!
The laws have become so straight-jacketing that presidents and their aides dare not keep journals or diaries, lest they be subpoenaed by avid special prosecutors.
Presidents are only seen on August 15 and January 26. Who knows what they do for five years other than this?
I believe in term limits for presidents because I think that there is no doubt I'm a better president now than I was when I start.
Our best presidents have really combined domestic leadership with heroic achievements in foreign affairs or war.
Whoever renders service to many puts himself in line for greatness - great wealth, great return, great satisfaction, great reputation, and great joy.
In the past, presidents had been consulted about those kinds of decisions by SGs, and I thought it was the right thing to do.
In every era going back to Lincoln with Frederick Douglass, presidents talk to those that were leading at that time.
I feel that Pride and Prejudice is an incredibly well constructed novel on every level. The dialogue is great. The character development is great. The plotting is great. The pacing is great. The language is great.
An earthquake strikes Haiti, and care packages from America are among the first to arrive - and not far behind are former Presidents Clinton and Bush.
There's never been an entertainer that can take two warring parties and have both presidents stand on the stage and hold hands.
President Obama has shelled out more in federal spending than the five presidents that came before him.
I've worked for four presidents and watched two others up close, and I know that there's no such thing as a routine day in the Oval Office.
Obama achieved something in his first year with health care that successive presidents have been unable to achieve.
The principles and policy of these Presidents were marked by the most enlarged and comprehensive statesmanship, promoting the highest interests of the Republic.
One of the little-celebrated powers of Presidents (and other high government officials) is to listen to their critics with just enough sympathy to ensure their silence.
Presidents and cabinet officials could send a strong message of accountability if they held senior appointees responsible for their performance.
The greatest presidents have been those who demonstrated astute judgment in times of crisis - often despite the advice they were getting.
Securing freedom has been a singular commitment of American presidents and patriots in and out of government for generations. But its perpetual continuation is not guaranteed.
Wow. Losing 95 percent of your audience in just five years. That basically makes Obama the NBC of presidents.
Some people put down all presidents. If you say anything good about any of them, they think you're supporting everything they do.
American presidents get to make lots of choices, with one critical exception: what awaits them in the in-box on top of the desk in the Oval Office.
I do great with Tea Party, I do great with conservatives I do great with moderates, I do great with evangelicals, I do great with everybody.
Presidents have only two moments of personal seclusion. One is prayer; the other fishing - and they cannot pray all the time!
There are examples of ex-presidents speaking out. Jimmy Carter has not held back on a variety of issues. Harry Truman didn't.
How many presidents, do you think, ever said to another guy: 'I can't believe we're doing this in the White House'?
Since the end of the nineteenth century, if not earlier, presidents have misled the public about their motives and their intentions in going to war.
Maybe the most interesting find in my research is that it is clear that Ronald Reagan, among all modern presidents, plainly rediscovered the founders.
Many presidents have battled with Congress over their executive privilege and what it covers, but the idea that the debate is cause for impeachment is remarkably weak.
It is incredibly presumptive for somebody who has not yet earned his party's nomination to start speculating about vice presidents.
Many presidents - and they're not all Republicans - they're just determined to take apart this behemoth that's the administrative state. And probably the most famous one is Ronald Reagan.
Like other presidents before him, Barack Obama inherited a recession. But unlike them, he has made it worse, not better.
There are areas of tension and uncertainty the Constitution doesn't address, and presidents of both parties have fought with Congress over their respective roles.
When you look at the development of the American presidency, you see that the presidents who have had the greatest impact are the ones who fit their times most successfully.
Presidents in the modern era who've had significant assets have usually put those into a blind trust with some kind of independent manager.
Remember Henry Adam's jest that the succession of presidents from Washington to Grant disproved the theory of evolution?
I've done a whole lot of things. I've had the pleasure of introducing two presidents, several senators and congressmen.
When Presidents Trump, Putin and Erdogan are mentioned in the same breath here in Germany, as they are all too often, this is a false equivalence that cannot be tolerated.
We'd be in his office playing with trucks as a six-year-old while he's negotiating deals with presidents of major companies.
Presidents and Lyndon Johnson was really no exception, very rapidly learned the difference between a contingency plan and an authorized act.
