#president

President Obama has said that our aspirations should be realistic. We are not going to turn one of the poorest countries in the world, that was plunged into 30 years of war, into an advanced, industrialized, Western-style democracy. What we want to achieve is Afghanistan's capacity to secure and govern itself. ↗

— David Petraeus

#advanced #afghanistan #aspirations #capacity #countries

The progress in Iraq is still fragile. And it could still be reversed. Iraq still faces innumerable challenges, and they will be evident during what will likely be a difficult process as the newly elected Council of Representatives selects the next prime minister, president, and speaker of the council. ↗

— David Petraeus

#could #council #difficult #during #elected

It could happen to anyone when you get hired by a different president. There's a difference in philosophies. It happens. It's a change in CEOs. They have their own people, their own philosophies, and it's different than what Bob stands for. ↗

— Rick Pitino

#bob #ceos #change #could #difference

We can't have cellphones, TV, radio or the Internet. If the president died, we'd have no idea. There's no normalcy. It's just like prison, with cameras. ↗

— Nicole Polizzi

#died #idea #internet #just #like

No president who performs his duties faithfully and conscientiously can have any leisure. ↗

— James K. Polk

#duties #faithfully #his #leisure #performs

For example, a man who might not have enormous charisma, who could be president 40 years ago, and who was a deserving president, I don't know that George Washington would be a president today, I don't know that Abe Lincoln would, I don't know that Roosevelt would. ↗

— Sydney Pollack

#ago #charisma #could #deserving #enormous

As someone who's been covering presidential campaigns since the 1950s, I have no delusions about political reporting. Candidates bargaining access to get the kind of news coverage they want is nothing new. ↗

— Dan Rather

#access #bargaining #been #campaigns #candidates

Anybody that thought that I tried to protect the president has forgotten that I asked for the expansion of the Monica Lewinsky matter. ↗

— Janet Reno

#asked #expansion #forgotten #i #i tried

It was not the president's responsibility to run a law enforcement operation. It was ours. ↗

— Janet Reno

#law #law enforcement #operation #ours #president

The president really shouldn't be involved in terms of dictating what course the investigation should take. ↗

— Janet Reno

#dictating #investigation #involved #president #really