#resident

The most important aspect of the relationship between the president and the secretary of state is that they both understand who is president. ↗

— Dean Acheson

#between #both #important #important aspect #most

The President of today is just the postage stamp of tomorrow. ↗

— Gracie Allen

#postage #president #stamp #today #tomorrow

'Favoritism' is always a factor, and pressure always build for the appointment of friends of influential supporters of the President, or for the nominees of powerful Member of Congress from the incoming President's party. ↗

— Richard V. Allen

#appointment #build #congress #factor #friends

The 'transition' involves the transfer of power from one president to another. In recent times, the incoming President has designated a Director of the Transition, a team leader, to oversee and administer the orderly transfer of power. ↗

— Richard V. Allen

#another #designated #director #incoming #involves

The Leader will be a person with the management skills to coordinate the activities of the Team, and to assure that the Team remains faithful to the objectives of the incoming President. ↗

— Richard V. Allen

#assure #coordinate #faithful #incoming #leader

I thought Nixon was the worst President we had ever had, save only perhaps Andrew Johnson. ↗

— Stephen Ambrose

#ever #had #i #johnson #nixon

One of the many, many salutary aspects of Barack Obama's impending presidential nomination is the sea change his victory marks in the battle for the mind-set of the American foreign policy establishment. ↗

— Eric Alterman

#american foreign policy #aspects #barack #battle #change

Well, what did we buy? Instead of a leaner, smarter government, we bought a bureaucracy that now tells us which light bulbs to buy, and which will put 16,500 IRS agents in charge of policing President Obama's health care bill. ↗

— Michele Bachmann

#bill #bought #bulbs #bureaucracy #buy

The city and province were given up to anarchy; the coloured people, elated with victory, proclaimed the slaughter of all whites, except the English, French, and American residents. ↗

— Henry Walter Bates

#anarchy #city #coloured #elated #english

I wanted the influence. In the end I wasn't very good at being a president. I looked out of the window and thought that the man cutting the lawn actually seemed to have more control over what he was doing. ↗

— Warren Bennis

#being #control #cutting #doing #end