- Intelligence
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- Nov 07, 2020
American President Quotes
Views on the office and the people in it
Several quotes here reflect on the American president from unusual vantage points, including a former intelligence officer's surprise and a foreign leader's personal impressions. See Important quotes for more.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- King
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- Nov 07, 2020
The true sovereign is not the American president nor the English king, but the Lord of the Second Advent.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I liked Kennedy. So far, he is the only American president who could talk with me and with whom I could talk. I know Johnson, but I have not yet a clear opinion of him.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think it is so great right now that we are in an age where there's an African American president in office. I think it is important for our generation to really witness that.
- Avoid
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- Nov 07, 2020
On the contrary, I tried on numerous occasions to convince the American president not to go to war. I did what was within my capabilities to avoid that happening.
- Angry
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's no doubt we'd be very angry if the American president had come to the Knesset and argued against the government of Israel.
- Doubt
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- Nov 07, 2020
We went into Iraq because Saddam Hussein refused to account for his weapons of mass destruction, consistently violated UN resolutions and in a post-9/11 world no American president could afford to give Saddam Hussein the benefit of the doubt.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Arab Spring showed that people are not going to wait for an American president to make good on his big talk about democracy and human rights; they are going to fight for those rights themselves and overthrow pro-American dictators who stand in their way.
- Every
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- Nov 07, 2020
If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged.
- Back
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- Nov 07, 2020
Fighting back against Iran is difficult and costly. No American president from Carter to Obama has been willing to take it on.
- Attitude
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- Nov 07, 2020
The world is fortunate - for the time being, at least - that it has an American president in Obama who is prepared to take a conciliatory and concessive attitude towards America's decline and that it has a Chinese leadership which has been extremely cautious about expressing an opinion, let alone flexing its muscles.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not going to tell the American president how to run America, but I think it is important that when friends are speaking to each other that they are able to be very frank in the views that are exchanged, and I certainly will be doing that.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the banners I would put up in front of any American president and new administration is 'Do not overreact to your predecessors' policies.'
- Must
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- Nov 07, 2020
The American President resembles the commander of a ship at sea. He must have a helm to grasp, a course to steer, a port to seek.
- Appeared
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- Nov 07, 2020
What would happen if an angel appeared before the American president and told him there was no more need for war? Everything would collapse.
- Safety
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't think anybody can take the word of Saddam Hussein and his regime, and certainly an American president and allies who are obligated to worry about the safety and security of our countries, cannot take the word of this dictator, who lies, pathologically lies.
- Big
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- Nov 07, 2020