#resident

We can't have cellphones, TV, radio or the Internet. If the president died, we'd have no idea. There's no normalcy. It's just like prison, with cameras. ↗

— Nicole Polizzi

#died #idea #internet #just #like

No president who performs his duties faithfully and conscientiously can have any leisure. ↗

— James K. Polk

#duties #faithfully #his #leisure #performs

For example, a man who might not have enormous charisma, who could be president 40 years ago, and who was a deserving president, I don't know that George Washington would be a president today, I don't know that Abe Lincoln would, I don't know that Roosevelt would. ↗

— Sydney Pollack

#ago #charisma #could #deserving #enormous

You should see what our Founding Fathers used to say to each other and in the early part of our nation. But what they were able to do, especially in Philadelphia in 1787, four months, they argued about what a House should be, what a Senate should be, the power of the president, the Congress, the Supreme Court. And they had to deal with slavery. ↗

— Colin Powell

#about #argued #congress #court #deal

We all hoped in 2001 that we could put in place an Afghan government under President Karzai that would be able to control the country, make sure al-Qaeda didn't come back, and make sure the Taliban wasn't resurging. It didn't work out. ↗

— Colin Powell

#afghan #al-qaeda #back #come #control

I believe that the presidential term should be limited. ↗

— Vladimir Putin

#i #i believe #i believe that #limited #presidential

The President is going to benefit from me reporting directly to him when I arrive. ↗

— Dan Quayle

#benefit #directly #going #him #i

There will be a winner. There will a president-elect. But there will not be a defeated people. Tomorrow, we are only one country, only one Venezuela. Tomorrow in the country there are many problems that we have to resolve. Problems do not wait. ↗

— Henrique Capriles Radonski

#defeated #many #only #people #president-elect

I believe that transatlantic relations are very important and that President Bush's visit to Brussels, in a few days, will have a major impact on that. ↗

— Jean-Pierre Raffarin

#brussels #bush #days #few #i

When I talk about the assets, that was at the beginning of the talks. I was president then. I'm not president now. When I said it, this would be a sign of goodwill to begin the talks. ↗

— Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani

#assets #begin #beginning #goodwill #i