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Last updated on November 14, 2024.
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.
Kings and queens are expected to have offspring to carry on the name. There are no such demands on American presidents, but there is an expectation. There is a hope.
In order to get big things done, sometimes, presidents have to be deft at moving the pea around under the shells.
Whenever I came up against presidents of other companies, I was always smarter, because I was from the streets.
When most presidents get in, they move to the center because they realize that this is a centrist country - even Reagan.
Presidents have only two moments of personal seclusion. One is prayer; the other fishing - and they cannot pray all the time!
Refuse to accept the narrative of history laid down by presidents, prime ministers, generals and journalists.
In the past, presidents had been consulted about those kinds of decisions by SGs, and I thought it was the right thing to do.
Obama represents one-world government, a.k.a. Neocolonialism. Presidents don't change anything locally - they only deal with foreign policy.
There's never been an entertainer that can take two warring parties and have both presidents stand on the stage and hold hands.
Why are stamps adorned with kings and presidents? That we may lick their hinder parts and thump their heads.
Obama achieved something in his first year with health care that successive presidents have been unable to achieve.
Former Presidents Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton and President Barack Obama, each were told repeatedly, 'You can't win.' They all won.
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.
At best, most college presidents are running something that is somewhere between a faltering corporation and a hotel.
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.
Presidents and cabinet officials could send a strong message of accountability if they held senior appointees responsible for their performance.
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.
So I start my mission- leave my residence
Thinkin how could I get some dead presidents
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.
Presidents and Lyndon Johnson was really no exception, very rapidly learned the difference between a contingency plan and an authorized act.
On ships they call them barnacles; in business they attach themselves to desks and are called vice presidents.
Most presidents come to Washington bright as freshly minted dimes and leave much diminished.
I've met a handful of presidents, from Jimmy Carter to Bill Clinton to George Bush to Barack Obama.
Presidents by six years have been there long enough for the media and the country to see their flaws.
Our best presidents have really combined domestic leadership with heroic achievements in foreign affairs or war.
Maxwell's Equations have had a greater impact on human history than any ten presidents.
We elect our Presidents, be they Republican or Democrat, then start daring 'em to make good.
Traditionally Presidents Day was Washington's birthday. It was celebrated as a public holiday on February 22 each year, in peace or in war.
We can't in any way criticize or at least indict or impeach administration [of Democratic presidents] for doing what they did.
It is incredibly presumptive for somebody who has not yet earned his party's nomination to start speculating about vice 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.
I've done a whole lot of things. I've had the pleasure of introducing two presidents, several senators and congressmen.
How many presidents, do you think, ever said to another guy: 'I can't believe we're doing this in the White House'?
Some people put down all presidents. If you say anything good about any of them, they think you're supporting everything they do.
In every era going back to Lincoln with Frederick Douglass, presidents talk to those that were leading at that time.
The principles and policy of these Presidents were marked by the most enlarged and comprehensive statesmanship, promoting the highest interests of the Republic.
President Obama has shelled out more in federal spending than the five presidents that came before him.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Decision making in a democracy depends above all on knowledge and not just the intel available to presidents and policymakers.
I was in the drama club, and I was one of seven co-presidents of the student body. Students elected me - I don't know why!
Remember Henry Adam's jest that the succession of presidents from Washington to Grant disproved the theory of evolution?
Presidents are only seen on August 15 and January 26. Who knows what they do for five years other than this?
Obama has had more fundraisers than the last six presidents combined. And he's still losing in the money race!
We'd be in his office playing with trucks as a six-year-old while he's negotiating deals with presidents of major companies.
[Ronald]Reagan and[George W.] Bush were far more radical than other presidents.
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.
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.
There are examples of ex-presidents speaking out. Jimmy Carter has not held back on a variety of issues. Harry Truman didn't.
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.
Our chief justices have probably had more profound and lasting influence on their times and on the direction of the nation than most presidents.
In the days of Caesar, kings had fools and jesters. Now network presidents have anchormen.
Ginnifer Goodwin said it very well - we're not doing the Hall Of Presidents at Disneyland. This is my interpretation of [J.F] Kennedy.
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.
Even if you assume presidents were democratically elected they still have no right to keep secrets from the American people.
Although this should not be so, historians reconsider presidencies based on how the presidents conduct themselves after leaving office.