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I see the Bush Doctrine as an American-style "enabling act," giving dictatorial powers to any sitting president. — Ron Paul

A President and his wise men can only propose; but Congress disposes. It is when President and Congress agree that American history marches forward. — Theodore White

America is ready to elect its first African American President, especially one with light-skin and and no Negro dialect. — Mitch McConnell

The American president has a peculiar leadership responsibility to speak out for freedom. — Ted Cruz

I feel like the American people are being lied to and manipulated. President Bush is trying to force 9/11 and Saddam together. — Janeane Garofalo

President Bush is endangering our safety, hurting our vital interests, and undermining American values. — George Soros

If we can elect an African American as president, we can support gay marriage! Defeat prop 8! We will not give up! — Madonna Ciccone

This is the place where anybody - like an African American kid raised by a single mom - can be president. — Jennifer Granholm

I think the President ought to bring everybody that's in American uniform back because we're headed for war. — Barry Goldwater

In going too far, they [presidents] have taken away the individual rights of American citizens. — Dick Durbin

Jimmy Carter will go down in American history as 'the president who lost Iran,' — Barack Obama

Therefore, it is in our mutual interests to cause unrest and chaos within America. The new American president is a weak man. — Tom Clancy

The American people are entitled to see the president and to hear his views directly, and not to see him only through the press. — Richard M. Nixon

I've always admired President Chavez for standing up to imperialism and the meddling of the American government in South America. — Cindy Sheehan

As a loyal American and I think a patriotic American, no, I don't want Sarah Palin to be president. — Bill Maher

I think the American public wants a solemn ass as a president, and I think I'll go along with them. — Calvin Coolidge

Prominent among the American capitalists with ties to Nazi counterparts was Prescott Bush, the father of one president and grandfather of another. — Oliver Stone

If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged. — Noam Chomsky

America was magnificently characterized in November of 2008 when we elected, for the first time, an African-American President of the United States. — David Scott

When it comes to the Middle East, this is always a very difficult issue for any American president. — Hillary Clinton

Here is the solution to the American drug problem suggested a couple years back by the wife of our President: Just say no. — Kurt Vonnegut

Mr. President, call the toady of American imperialism to order. — Nikita Khrushchev

I like a President who tells jokes instead of appointing them. — Bob Hope

The world is starving for American leadership. But America has an anti-war president, — John Boehner

I'm not going to be the first American president to lose a war. — Richard M. Nixon

President Obama met with leaders of the American Indian tribes and they honored the president by giving him his own Indian name: Running Deficits. — Jay Leno

Unlike any other leader in modern American history, we are led today by a president that has decided to pit Americans against each other. — Marco Rubio

Jobs are central to the American dream - and President Obama has focused on jobs from day one. — Nancy Pelosi

Every president has to live with the result of what Lyndon Johnson did with Vietnam, when he lost the trust of the American people in the presidency. — Robert Caro

The President is the direct representative of the American people and is elected by the people and responsible to them. — Andrew Jackson

A president is supposed to calm the American people with sober decision-making in the national interest. — Monica Crowley

That peculiarly American religion, President-worship. — Gore Vidal

I'm the only American alive or dead who presided unhappily over the removal of a vice president and a president. — Alexander Haig

The American president just won the nobel peace prize, by any reasonable measure, all Americans should be proud — Rachel Maddow

President Obama should be championing American prominence, not apologizing for it. — Kevin Madden

Fighting back against Iran is difficult and costly. No American president from Carter to Obama has been willing to take it on. — Michael Ledeen

We saw the president of the United States engage American troops in a fourth conflict in a foreign land. This is historic. — Michele Bachmann

The American people on the ground need a clearer, stronger, Lyndon B. Johnson-type voice from their president. — Jesse Jackson

There was a lot of feeling that with an African-American president, life on the South Side of Chicago would be radically different. — Mark Kirk

Woodrow Wilson was the first American president ever to leave the country during his term of office. — Ken Follett

All I ever wanted to be was president of the American League. — A. Bartlett Giamatti

He [Calvin Coolidge] is the first president to discover that what the American people want is to be left alone. — Will Rogers

Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half. — Gore Vidal

The world is a more tragic and dangerous place when American isn't leading and, under this president, we have not been leading. — Carly Fiorina

I always figured the American public wanted a solemn ass for president, so I went along with them. — Calvin Coolidge

My job is to try to advance American foreign policy, to try to advance the president's agenda on democracy and human rights. — Condoleezza Rice

President Bush threw out the first pitch Monday at Cincinnati's great American ball park. 18 Iraqis were killed. — Amy Poehler

If you want a president who will make things better in the African-American community, you are looking at him. You take a look! — Mitt Romney

President Obama, Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, and their team have failed the American people, and that is why their majority will soon be out the door. — Mitt Romney

The American people deserve a Supreme Court justice who can demonstrate that he or she will not be beholden to the president, but only to the law. — Patrick Leahy

Lincoln had a tremendous capacity for personal growth - more than any other American President. — Henry Louis Gates

There was tremendous animus to President [Barack] Obama. Many of people said he was un-American, not a Christian and worse. — Mara Liasson

I am never tired of winning, and as your president I will win for you, the American people. I'm with you! — Donald Trump

Obama has been the single worst president in modern American history in dealing with the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. — Reza Aslan

Things happen in American politics in the political center. If the President will meet us in the center, there are things we can accomplish. — Mitch McConnell

Even if you assume presidents were democratically elected they still have no right to keep secrets from the American people. — Howard Zinn

I have often thought that less is expected of the president of a great corporation than of an American wife. — Eleanor Roosevelt

President Obama trusts in the wisdom of government. I put my trust in the ingenuity and creativity and commitment to hard work of the American people. — Mitt Romney

The true sovereign is not the American president nor the English king, but the Lord of the Second Advent. — Sun Myung Moon

I'm covering the worst president in American history. — Helen Thomas

American people simply will not countenance being lied to by their own President. — Pierre Salinger

President Obama hasn't been elected by the American people in order to be pleasant to Russia. — Vladimir Putin

We know this much about how Barack Obama plans to govern: He will deploy the fattest checkbook ever at the disposal of an incoming American president. — Nina Easton

That loyal retainer of the Chase Manhattan Bank, the American president. — Gore Vidal

I don't know anything about American history or presidents. I don't know what tailgating is! I've never been to an Olive Garden! — Emma Watson

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

If a President of the United States ever lied to the American people he should resign. — William J. Clinton

Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so. — Gore Vidal

We just sent our condolences to the President of the United States and the American people on what is a terrible, terrible tragedy. — Helen Clark

Any president that lies to the American people should have to resign. — William J. Clinton

The President is aware of what is going on. That is not to say that something is going on. — Ron Ziegler

Hillary Clinton, President Obama, they're trying to turn the American dream into the European nightmare. We need to rescue the country from socialism. — Bobby Jindal

Mr. Bush is flaky, incompetent, and the most dangerous American president in a generation. — Mark Latham

You can be a patriotic American and be a critic, but then you're not expressing that kind of love that we're used to from a president. — Rudy Giuliani

George W. Bush is the worst President
in all of American history. — Helen Thomas

President Obama has done more damage to America than any American has since 1776 — Dennis Prager

I agree with President Roosevelt, and generations since, that American seniors deserve better than poverty. — Hank Johnson

I ask the vice president to stop dodging the issue with legalese, and acknowledge his continued ties with Halliburton to the American people. — Frank Lautenberg

All I ever wanted to be president of was the American League. — A. Bartlett Giamatti

To see an African-American elected president means that this country is really finally coming full circle from the birth defect of slavery. — Condoleezza Rice

Tonight, the new Viper, which is the American equivalent of a sportscar in the same way, I guess, that George Bush is the equivalent of a President. — Jeremy Clarkson

A skill required to be president is to explain to the American people any given thing they do. — Jim Lehrer

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. — Henry Adams

Mitt Romney looks like an American President in a Canadian movie. — David Letterman

Barack Obama is the most antibusiness president in a generation, perhaps in American history. — Dinesh D'Souza

President Obama is the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people. — Clint Eastwood

President Obama contends that charges he is "not really an American" have been trumped up by you-know-who. — Michael R. Burch

Only one president in this book was a supervillain. Ladies and gentlemen, meet Chester A. Arthur, the Lex Luthor of the American Presidency. — Daniel O'Brien

I am confident, with the leadership and the backing of the American people, President Obama will turn this country around, — John McCain

Is the president purposefully using propaganda and hyperbole to garner the American public for support? — Sean Hannity

Because of the president's leadership, every American will have access to affordable, quality health care. — Rahm Emanuel

Finally, the president added, 'The American people are idealists, but they also want their leaders to be realistic ... — Bob Woodward

Because of the structure of the contemporary American party system, every president is polarizing. — Larry J. Sabato

American university presidents are a nervous breed; I have never thought well of them as a class. — John Kenneth Galbraith

I think Ralph Nader is the biggest liar in American politics when he said it didn't matter who was president. — James Carville

The symbolic value of having an African-American president has certainly eased some racial tensions in America, but they're not gone. — Naomi Wolf

I was outraged to learn that the president wanted to outsource operations at some American ports to the United Arab Emirates. — Francine Busby

There was not a word of apology, not a word of explanation to the American people, ... The president's going to have to get a touch of reality. — Harry Reid

If I could go, I would tell the truth to the North American people. President Reagan personally ordered my visa to be denied. — Tomas Borge