#presidency

Certainly there are worse sins than doing everything possible to make your presidency matter. ↗

— Eric Alterman

#doing #everything #make #matter #possible

I just didn't want to get out there anymore; I didn't want to get back into what I call 'the swamp.' And the other reason why is I don't think it's good for the presidency for a former president to be opining about his successor. President Obama's got plenty of critics - and I'm just not gonna be one. ↗

— George W. Bush

#anymore #back #call #critics #former

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

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

#gun #honors #presidency #president #remember

In my lifetime, Mitt Romney is the most qualified leader I've ever seen run for the presidency of the United States. ↗

— Jack Welch

#i #leader #lifetime #mitt #mitt romney

The necessary transformation of which I speak and of which my presidency will be a part is built on turning creative possibilities into live realities for all our people. ↗

— Michael D. Higgins

#creative #i #into #live #necessary

The presidency is an independent office and the Irish people whom I appreciate so much and I take with such responsibility have given a very clear mandate on a very clear set of ideas to me, as the ninth president. ↗

— Michael D. Higgins

#clear #given #i #ideas #independent

I think that the presidency really brings out the best in a lot of people. ↗

— Caroline Kennedy

#brings #i #i think #lot #out

If the Soviet empire still existed, I'd be terrified. The fact is, we can afford a fairly ignorant presidency now. ↗

— Newt Gingrich

#empire #existed #fact #fairly #i

Anybody who wants the presidency so much that he'll spend two years organizing and campaigning for it is not to be trusted with the office. ↗

— David Broder

#campaigning #much #office #organizing #presidency