- Poverty
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- Nov 07, 2020
President Quotes
On the weight and unpredictability of holding the top job.
This small set of quotes reflects on what it means to hold a president's role—from a network president's admission that the job humbled early confidence, to broader thoughts on leading an American organization or country.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Economists
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- Nov 07, 2020
When the Smoot-Hawley bill landed on President Herbert Hoover's desk, more than 1,000 economists urged him to veto it. Tragically, the president ignored their pleas.
- Flexibility
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- Nov 07, 2020
Expanding a failing, big-government program that reduces flexibility for the states and traps generations of Americans in dependency is not consistent with the kind of conservative solutions that Reagan sought during his terms as governor of California and president of the United States.
- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
The job of every president is to ride herd over Congress.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
Whether you like it or not, Santorum is as good as President Obama with a crowd.
- Left
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Left has been frustrated because President Obama has allowed the Republicans to run all over him.
- Human Rights
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- Nov 07, 2020
In Uzbekistan, hundreds of protesters were recently killed under the corrupt regime of President Karimov in what human rights groups are calling a massacre.
- Hand
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- Nov 07, 2020
That's the premise of the Saudi Arabians. He's holding the president's hand with one. In the other hand, he's got his hand in the pocket of American consumers.
- Republican
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- Nov 07, 2020
I became a Republican in the summer of 1972. I was involved in running President Nixon's re-election campaign in California and became part of his administration at the start of his second term.
- Positive
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- Nov 07, 2020
If Ralph Nader runs, President Bush is going to be re-elected, and if Ralph Nader doesn't run, President Bush is going to be re-elected. We're going to run on the president's strong and principled leadership and his positive agenda for a second term.
- He
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- Nov 07, 2020
One is that President Clinton, in his first two years of his term, did not govern as he had campaigned.
- Democratic Leaders
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- Nov 07, 2020
During the 2008 campaign, I strongly endorsed Barack Obama for president. I did so early, when many Democratic leaders - including many prominent African-American politicians - believed the safe bet was to back then-front-runner Hillary Clinton.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
President Abraham Lincoln never lost his ardor for the United States to remain united during the Civil War.
- Looking
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sure, it is apparent that presidents are looking at polls, but they are also stepping up on issues. President Clinton stepped up on tobacco. He shaped the polls on the tobacco issue.
- High
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- Nov 07, 2020