#presidency

The Obama presidency has two great missions: fixing the economy, and preventing Iran from gaining nuclear weapons. ↗

— Benjamin Netanyahu

#fixing #gaining #great #iran #missions

Within the U.S., the Obama presidency will be mainly measured by the success or failure of his economic policies. And here, I fear, the monstrous stimulus package with which this administration stumbled out of the gate will prove to be Obama's Waterloo. ↗

— Camille Paglia

#economic #economic policies #failure #fear #gate

Throughout his presidency, Clinton made a point of getting close - physically and emotionally - to the people whose problems his administration was working to solve. ↗

— Dee Dee Myers

#clinton #close #emotionally #getting #his

So, for example, a country was into recession right after I was sworn in, a dot-com bust had taken place. Then the attacks of September the 11th, and then of course the great financial meltdown in the -the fundamental question facing any presidency is how do you deal with the hand you're dealt? ↗

— George W. Bush

#any #attacks #bust #country #course

In the scheme of our national government, the presidency is preeminently the people's office. ↗

— Grover Cleveland

#national #national government #office #our #people

It’s clearly a budget. It’s got lots of numbers in it. ↗

— George W. Bush

#money #presidency #humor

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

No man could be equipped for the presidency if he has never been tempted by one of the seven cardinal sins. ↗

— Eugene McCarthy

#cardinal #could #equipped #man #never

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

You don't run for the presidency out of nostalgia. ↗

— George McGovern

#out #presidency #run #you