#president

Presidents grow up in the White House. The times shape the man. ↗

— Thomas Friedman

#grow up #house #man #presidents #shape

A presidential speech is always the work of many hands. ↗

— David Frum

#hands #many #presidential #speech #work

I always believed as a speechwriter that if you could persuade the president to commit himself to certain words, he would feel himself committed to the ideas that underlay those words. ↗

— David Frum

#believed #certain #commit #committed #could

The great power the president has is that he is the most prominent person in the biggest media event on the planet. He has the attention of the nation and the world. When he speaks, everybody listens. ↗

— David Frum

#biggest #event #everybody #great #great power

President Reagan is now at rest. We mourn his passing, but we are grateful for the gifts he gave us: a safer world, strong economic base, and a renewed belief in America's greatness. ↗

— Elton Gallegly

#base #belief #economic #gave #gifts

President Reagan achieved such successes because when you sat in a room with him, there could be over 1,000 people in the room, yet you felt like there was only the two of you, and his wonderful wit would put you at ease. That was a tremendous gift. ↗

— Elton Gallegly

#because #could #ease #felt #gift

It's clear enough that there was substantial fraud in Ohio, thus delivering the Electoral College vote for President Bush. ↗

— George Galloway

#clear #college #delivering #electoral #electoral college

Even if you only counted the votes that actually made it through the hoops in order to be cast, the president was really Al Gore. ↗

— George Galloway

#al #al gore #cast #counted #even

Actually, today I had to defend the Bush Administration in France again. They refuse to accept, because of their political ideology, that he has actually done more than any American President for Africa. But it's empirically so. ↗

— Bob Geldof

#actually #administration #africa #again #american

The only people who live in a post-black world are four people who live in a little white house on Pennsylvania Avenue. The idea that America is post-racial or post-black because a man I admire, Barack Obama, is president of the United States, is a joke. And I hope no one will even wonder about this crazy fiction again. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#admire #again #america #avenue #barack