#resident

The principles and policy of these Presidents were marked by the most enlarged and comprehensive statesmanship, promoting the highest interests of the Republic. ↗

— Robert Toombs

#enlarged #highest #interests #marked #most

When I was a kid, Eisenhower had been President forever, and all of a sudden, everything in the world was all about Jack Kennedy. I was 12, interested in politics; my father was from Massachusetts, had an accent like Kennedy. ↗

— James Ellroy

#accent #been #eisenhower #everything #father

Obama is making a choice now that will lead to the deaths of many thousands of civilians in Afghanistan by American hands. By ordinary standards of presidents, he is a decent man. But those standards aren't good enough. He's in a position either to kill or not to kill, and he's made the decision to kill. ↗

— Daniel Ellsberg

#american #choice #civilians #deaths #decent

As far as the men who are running for president are concerned, they aren't even people I would date. ↗

— Nora Ephron

#concerned #date #even #far #i

There's a real question at stake now. Is President Obama creating a civil war in our own country? ↗

— Jon Voight

#civil war #country #creating #now #obama

Look, if America - if being an American means anything, it means not having to lie under oath, not even for the president. ↗

— Linda Tripp

#american #anything #being #even #having

All the president is, is a glorified public relations man who spends his time flattering, kissing, and kicking people to get them to do what they are supposed to do anyway. ↗

— Harry S. Truman

#anyway #flattering #get #glorified #his

The Marine Corps is the Navy's police force and as long as I am President that is what it will remain. They have a propaganda machine that is almost equal to Stalin's. ↗

— Harry S. Truman

#almost #am #corps #equal #force

The President is always abused. If he isn't, he isn't doing anything. ↗

— Harry S. Truman

#anything #doing #president

Most of the problems a President has to face have their roots in the past. ↗

— Harry S. Truman

#in the past #most #past #president #problems