#presidency

When you get to be President, there are all those things, the honors, the twenty-one gun salutes, all those things. You have to remember it isn't for you. It's for the Presidency. ↗

— Harry S. Truman

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Republican politics have been off-kilter for several years now because a large segment of the conservative base does not look back fondly on the Bush presidency. ↗

— Jonah Goldberg

#base #because #been #bush #bush presidency

I think George W. Bush has a warm, engaging personality. But, you know, the presidency is more than just a popularity contest. ↗

— Al Gore

#contest #engaging #george #george w #i

As a president I will be like the candidate that I am, a respectful candidate, a rallying candidate, a normal candidate for a normal presidency, at the service of the Republic. ↗

— Francois Hollande

#candidate #i #i am #like #normal

My dear citizens, fellow citizens, French people, this 6th of May, have just chosen change by bringing me the presidency of the French republic. I feel the honor, which has been given to me and the task, the important task faced beyond - in front of you to serve my country. ↗

— Francois Hollande

#beyond #bringing #change #chosen #citizens

I read the book with interest, but when Jackson was a candidate in 1828 for the Presidency, I opposed him and voted for Adams. I favored a protective tariff. ↗

— Ezra Cornell

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You win the presidency by connecting with the American people's gut insecurities and aspirations. You win with a concept. ↗

— Thomas Friedman

#aspirations #concept #connecting #gut #insecurities

Few men in our history have ever obtained the Presidency by planning to obtain it. ↗

— James A. Garfield

#few #few men #history #men #obtain

While I'm critical to the Bush presidency, it's been enormously beneficial for Salon because we're seen as kind of an aggressive watchdog on the Bush White House. Particularly since Florida, our readership hit a whole new level, and we held onto those readers. ↗

— David Talbot

#because #been #beneficial #bush #bush presidency

I firmly believed throughout 1971 that the major hurdle to winning the presidency was winning the Democratic nomination. I believed that any reasonable Democrat would defeat President Nixon. I now think that no one could have defeated him in 1972. ↗

— George McGovern

#believed #could #defeat #defeated #democrat