#president

If only Queen Elizabeth II had the intellectual, political and linguistic skills of Queen Elizabeth I, many people would support giving her some of the powers of an elected president. ↗

— A. N. Wilson

#elizabeth #elizabeth i #giving #had #her

In the past, I used to counter any such notions by asking myself: 'Would you really want President Hattersley?' I now find that possibility rather cheers me up. With his chubby, Dickensian features and his knowledge of T.H. Green and other harmless leftish political classics, Hattersley might not be such a bad thing after all. ↗

— A. N. Wilson

#any #asking #bad #bad thing #cheers

In the year 1857, passing through Washington on our return from the annual visit to Philadelphia, I had the distinguished honor of visiting a President for the first time. ↗

— John Sergeant Wise

#distinguished #first #first time #had #honor

With Barack Obama as president and the super-happening Michelle Obama as First Lady, you would think a new tone, a new tune, a kicky new jazzitude, would have entered Washington discourse, but it remains a landlocked island unto itself, held captive by its tribal fevers. ↗

— James Wolcott

#barack obama #captive #discourse #entered #fevers

Some people put down all presidents. If you say anything good about any of them, they think you're supporting everything they do. ↗

— Neil Young

#any #anything #down #everything #good

The president is 100 percent for extending the tax cuts for 98.7 percent of small businesses. ↗

— Austan Goolsbee

#cuts #extending #percent #president #small

I have just come from the castle, where I have seen the president of the republic, and I can tell you that he has accepted all of my proposals without making any changes. ↗

— Klement Gottwald

#any #castle #changes #come #i

President Johnson offered the middle of the road. ↗

— Lew Wasserman

#middle #offered #president #president johnson #road

For a bill to become law, it truly has to be the will of the people, and for a president to stop the will of the people and stop what you're trying to do in your state is not the role of Washington. ↗

— Nikki Haley

#bill #law #people #president #role

They say I do not have the qualifications to be president, that I do not have education. Well, I would never divide the Liberian people. ↗

— George Weah

#education #i #i do #never #people