#reside

When George Washington was elected president, there was no national vote. ↗

— Ben Nelson

#george #george washington #national #president #vote

You would have thought that after 9/11 the president would have finished the job in Afghanistan, and kept the focus on capturing Bin Laden and his al-Qaeda deputies, but he and his team gave top priority to their original plan to invade Iraq. ↗

— Bill Nelson

#after #al-qaeda #bin #capturing #deputies

The Obama presidency has two great missions: fixing the economy, and preventing Iran from gaining nuclear weapons. ↗

— Benjamin Netanyahu

#fixing #gaining #great #iran #missions

President Abbas, you've dedicated your life to advancing the Palestinian cause. Must this conflict continue for generations, or will we enable our children and our grandchildren to speak in years ahead of how we found a way to end it? That's what we should aim for, and that's what I believe we can achieve. ↗

— Benjamin Netanyahu

#advancing #ahead #aim #believe #cause

The calls that I have received from President Bush and Vice President Cheney, the fact that there are other people that are suffering every bit as much as I am, and that our whole nation is going through a tragedy together, I think we have to think about those things. ↗

— Ted Olson

#am #bit #bush #calls #cheney

President Bush's war on Iraq is viewed broadly in Islamic communities as an attack on Islam, and thus the President has alienated a large part of one fifth of the world's population. ↗

— John Olver

#attack #broadly #bush #communities #fifth

Americans were told repeatedly by President Bush and Vice President Cheney that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction. None were ever found. ↗

— John Olver

#cheney #destruction #ever #found #had

Small businesses drive this economy and it is unacceptable that the President's budget proposal does not give them the tools they need to be successful. ↗

— Solomon Ortiz

#businesses #does #drive #economy #give

I'm covering the worst president in American history. ↗

— Helen Thomas

#american history #covering #history #i #president

I think soon after I became director of the CIA - President Obama pulled me into the Oval Office and said: 'Look, I just want you to know that your top priority is to go after Osama bin Laden.' ↗

— Leon Panetta

#became #bin #cia #director #go