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Last updated on December 19, 2024.
I think when the military ousts a sitting president, even if the sitting president is deeply unpopular, that's the definition of a coup.
The president-elect seems to want Russia as a friend. President Obama arguably has not wanted to say that Russia is that great of a threat.
It has been a very successful life experience for President Trump to be President Trump. So let's let him do that... Let's see where the chips fall. — © Anthony Scaramucci
It has been a very successful life experience for President Trump to be President Trump. So let's let him do that... Let's see where the chips fall.
One of the questions that I often get is, 'Why are you running to be President?'. To Be President! What did I miss? I'm not running to go to Disneyland.
While President Putin is busy redrawing the map of Europe, President Obama is busy filling out his brackets.
Obviously a president can't rule as a king and ban all guns. But I think we need a president who is going to make sure that there is gun control and that people still feel like their freedoms are intact.
When the president says that the biggest problem of the country is corruption, they attack the morality of the president so that he doesn't speak about corruption.
Of course I don't know what's going on in that meeting on in the mind of Donald Trump. But I do know one of the things President Barack Obama was struck by was how much time he spent on cyber-security as president. And one of the things he said was that, in the years ahead, the next president will be spending even more time. And cyber-security isn't a thing that goes away after this election. It's a constant flow.
A President and his wise men can only propose; but Congress disposes. It is when President and Congress agree that American history marches forward.
I believe that the role of president of the United States is vastly different from the role of candidate and that the Donald Trump of the campaign will not succeed as president.
When you look at the Nixon pardon, the short-term gain would have been never to pardon him.
Conservatives believe that we need to defeat radical Islam not because we want war but because ISIS and other radical Islamist are enemies of peace and that's why we need a president, who in which under whom the best intelligence agencies in the world will find terrorists and the best military in the world will destroy them. And if we capture them alive, a president that will bring them to the United States. A president that will grant them a court-appointed lawyer, a president that will send these terrorists where they belong, to Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
Hillary Clinton could say she was a woman and running for president. And Sarah Palin could say she was a woman and running for vice-president. But Obama couldn't say, 'I'm black and I'm running for president.' It couldn't come out of his mouth. He couldn't say that because, if he did, he'd lose votes.
I did not become president to be popular. To work, to lead, to protect and preserve our country, our people, that is why I became president. — © Gloria Macapagal Arroyo
I did not become president to be popular. To work, to lead, to protect and preserve our country, our people, that is why I became president.
You don't deliberately submit people you love to something like that. I don't think I'd run again for vice-president. Next time I'd run for president.
President Obama has two years left as president. I wouldn't be surprised if he gets to appoint two new Kardashian husbands.
The American president isn't just the American president. He's going to be the leader of the whole Western world, you know? You got a pretty big responsibility.
When President Chirac gave [President] Bush a souvenir statue of the Eiffel Tower... Bush said 'This is great! A little oil rig!'
In 1962, President Kennedy expanded an earlier trade embargo put in place by a predecessor, President Eisenhower, to a total economic blockade, which pushed the Cubans further in Moscow's direction.
But at the end of the day, any president must try to unify Singapore... that must be in the heart of the man who wants to be the president.
Mission accomplished? The mission in Iraq, as laid out by President Bush and Vice President Cheney, has failed.
Republican secretaries of state from Kissinger to Baker, Powell to Rice, President Bush, 71 United States Senators all supported President Obama's new START treaty, but not Mitt Romney.
Richard Nixon built his presidency on his notorious 'Southern strategy.'
Donald Trump is the first president in more than 40 years not to make his tax returns public. The president says only reporters care about the issue.
Eventually, Nixon ran a very centrist presidency, not a Goldwater conservative presidency.
I wrote that President Bush is passing on to President-elect Obama two wars and an economic debacle. I call it a depression. And he is arming Israel against the Palestinians in every way in Gaza.
It's pretty hard to say no when a vice president-elect and a president-elect ask you to be part of the national team.
It's one thing for a foreign partner to doubt a president's judgment; it's entirely more debilitating when that partner doubts the president's word.
[Hillary Clinton] really wants to be president. She wanted to be president in '08. She's hardly left the spotlight.
I'm here tonight, not as a Republican, not as a Democrat, but as an optimistic American who understands that we must come together behind the one man who can lead the way forward in these challenging times: my president, our president, Barack Obama!
We've worked with President Yeltsin. He is the President of the country. He's been a reformer. We've been able to accomplish a number of things together.
The president does not have any obligation to make a consensus appointment here. What the president's obligation is, is to pick a judicial conservative, and I believe that's what he's gonna do.
Someone needs to talk sense to the president. But these people are not world travelers. This president, much as I like him, had all the opportunities in the world.
In America, any boy can grow up to become president. Or, if he never grows up, vice president.
I'm a really big believer - this is not a statement about President [Barack] Obama, but whoever is president - that good policy is really important.
President Donald J. Trump was right to strike at the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad for using a weapon of mass destruction, the nerve agent sarin, against its own people.
Every president since George Washington has taken executive privilege seriously. Every Republican president has.
Nixon had this remarkably effective, deeply intense will to power. Reagan and I have a will to ideas. — © Newt Gingrich
Nixon had this remarkably effective, deeply intense will to power. Reagan and I have a will to ideas.
I wonder: Would there be a black president if people hadn't already begun imagining, through film and television, that a black man is president? It's self-actualization.
If Richard Nixon was second-rate, what in the world is third-rate?
When I talk about the assets, that was at the beginning of the talks. I was president then. I'm not president now. When I said it, this would be a sign of goodwill to begin the talks.
I want a president who'll look out for American interests. Every treaty we sign has a provision that a president of the United States, if he or she concludes that it's no longer in the interest of the country should step back from it.
I'm absolutist on Trump. He shouldn't be president. We should limit the damage he can do as president. And we should try as hard as we can to prevent him from being renominated or reelected.
The consequences of President Johnsons campaign of deliberate deception regarding Vietnam could hardly have been more catastrophic for the nation, the military, the president, his party, and the presidency itself.
I am not running for president, but I've always known if I ever did run for president - or local dogcatcher, for that matter - the boy I bullied would and should arise as a necessary ghost from my past.
Even before President [Barack] Obama announced actions aimed at tightening controls on gun purchases, sales were up, partly in reaction to terrorist attacks in Paris and San Bernardino. Gun dealers say the president's initiatives have spurred sales. At the same time, polling shows more than two thirds of Americans support the president's proposals, including a majority of gun owners.
I began by telling the president that there was a cancer growing on the presidency and that if the cancer was not removed the president himself would be killed by it.
A president just can't make much showing against congress. They lay awake nights, thinking up things to be against the president on.
You know, that's the very least that the American voters can expect is that when you're running for President that you outline what you would do and what you would do differently from this - from the President of the United States.
A committee appointed by the President of a company will report what the President wishes to hear. Would they dare report otherwise?. — © W. Edwards Deming
A committee appointed by the President of a company will report what the President wishes to hear. Would they dare report otherwise?.
If you're a speech writer for a president, you don't really see all that much of him because there's so many layers between you and him. But with a vice president, it's different.
Nixon was a crook, but he was our crook. He didn't have the KGB do the Watergate job.
Mitt Romney is not going to be running for president. So you know what that means. We are getting closer and closer to 'President Trump.'
I began by telling the President that there was a cancer growing on the presidency, and if the cancer was not removed, the president himself would be killed by it.
There is an institutional cynicism that causes reporters to question everything the President says, and the motives of everything the President and his Administration try to accomplish.
With the NDAA, his failure to close Guantanamo Bay and the ramping use of drones, President Obama looks suspiciously like President Bush, a man on a quest for American Empire.
When you micro-analyze the approval ratings, there's aspects, and the questions come in, 'I love the president, but I dislike X, Y, Z,' or 'I like the president but dislike X, Y, Z.'
Well, Dr. Siegel is more of a sycophant than a doctor. And he's not President Trump's coronavirus guide.' President Trump appears to be his.
No one wants a president to be guilty of obstruction of justice. The only thing worse than that is a guilty president who goes without punishment.
Maybe President Trump will turn out to be a fabulously successful president who will endear the millennial generation to the Right anew.
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