#reside

I wanted to be president of the United States. I really did. The older I get, the less preposterous the idea seems. ↗

— Alec Baldwin

#get #i #idea #less #older

Mr. President, prime ministers, let us have ambitions: ambitions to move beyond the violence and occupation, to the day when two states, Palestine and Israel, can live together side by side in peace and security. ↗

— King Abdullah II

#day #israel #let us #live #ministers

It is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it... anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job. ↗

— Douglas Adams

#allowed #anyone #capable #fact #facto

Power is poison. Its effect on Presidents had always been tragic. ↗

— Henry Adams

#been #effect #had #poison #power

Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job. ↗

— Douglas Adams

#allowed #anyone #capable #getting #job

President Bush's mercury rule is a gift to the big energy companies that helped put him in office. ↗

— Tom Allen

#bush #companies #energy #energy companies #gift

Any time you get into a presidential campaign and the stakes are so high, all candidates - they want to be in complete control whenever they can. And you can't blame them for that. ↗

— Bob Schieffer

#blame #campaign #candidates #complete #complete control

We owe Clint Eastwood a debt of thanks. Not only because it was truly a hilarious twelve minutes of improvised "awesome" in a week of scripted "blah". But because it advanced our understanding. This president has issues, and there are very legitimate debates about his policies and actions, and successes and or failures as president - I mean, tune in next week. But I could never wrap my head around why the world, and the president republicans describe, bears so little resemblance to the world and the president that I experience. And now I know why : There is a president Obama that only republicans can see ↗

— Jon Stewart

#current-events #politics #presidents #republicans #tea-party

Next time I tell you someone from Texas should not be president of the United States, please pay attention." [Shrub Flubs His Dub, The Nation, June 18, 2001] ↗

— Molly Ivins

#george-w-bush #humor #politics #presidents #texas

I'm never going to complain about receiving free early copies of books, because clearly there's nothing to complain about, but it does introduce a rogue element into one's otherwise carefully plotted reading schedule. ... Being a reader is sort of like being president, except reading involves fewer state dinners, usually. You have this agenda you want to get through, but you get distracted by life events, e.g., books arriving in the mail/World War III, and you are temporarly deflected from your chosen path. ↗

— Nick Hornby

#freebies #planning #president #reading #reading-lists