#presidents

What if Barack Obama established a Presidential Advisory Committee that would meet once every couple of months, bringing together the former presidents for a conference in order to seek their collective wisdom? There is a wealth of experience in former presidents that generally goes untapped. ↗

— Tony Campolo

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We draw our Presidents from the people. It is a wholesome thing for them to return to the people. I came from them. I wish to be one of them again. ↗

— Calvin Coolidge

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I don't find any presidents all that sexy. They're not very rock'n'roll. ↗

— Carmen Electra

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I head a nation of a million presidents. ↗

— Chaim Weizmann

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If you look at where presidents come from, they're former governors or senators. ↗

— Eleanor Clift

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I have worked with Presidents since Eisenhower. We serve together. ↗

— John Dingell

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

— Thomas Friedman

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Well, I was always a bit of a political junkie. Even as a kid I would read biographies of presidents and of civil rights leaders like Martin Luther King and Frederick Douglass and Booker T. Washington. ↗

— John Legend

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A long life in journalism convinced me many presidents ago that there should be a large air space between a journalist and the head of a state. ↗

— Walter Lippmann

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And what does reward virtue? You think the communist commissar rewards virtue? You think a Hitler rewards virtue? You think, excuse me, if you'll pardon me, American presidents reward virtue? Do they choose their appointees on the basis of the virtue of the people appointed or on the basis of their political clout? ↗

— Milton Friedman

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