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The author's alliterative description of politics since the 1960 presidential debates: "Government by Gotcha".
— David Pietrusza
Today, possible presidential candidate Donald Trump released his birth certificate. It lists his eyes as blue and his hair as ridiculous.
— Conan O'Brien
U.S. nuclear weapons that are available for presidential use are targeted against broad ocean areas.
— C. Robert Kehler
Somebody has inquired as to whether I will be going to the opening baseball game. I hope to have that pleasure.
— Herbert Hoover
A presidential campaign may easily degenerate into a mere personal contest, and so lose its real dignity. There is no indispensable man.
— Woodrow Wilson
I believe that the presidential term should be limited.
— Vladimir Putin
Freedom requires that government keep the channels of competition and opportunity open, prevent monopolies, economic abuse and domination.
— Herbert Hoover
It is time that all Americans realized that the place of labor is side by side with the businessman and with the farmer, and not one-degree lower.
— Harry S. Truman
If you look at the history of presidential memorials, it takes a long time to get them done.
— Susan Eisenhower
Thousand points of light.
— George H. W. Bush
The American Labor Movement has consistently demonstrated its devotion to the public interest. It is, and has been, good for all America.
— John F. Kennedy
We ... declared our independence 200 years ago, and we are not about to lose it now to paper shufflers and computers.
— Gerald R. Ford
Lincoln had faith in time, and time has justified his faith.
— Benjamin Harrison
Everybody knows that I have tougher ethics rules than any other previous President.
— William J. Clinton
In most presidential elections, the taller candidate wins.
— Susan Estrich
Doverey, no proverey - Trust but verify.
— Ronald Reagan
No candidate can win a presidential race advocating gay marriage and opposing the military action in Iraq.
— Dick Morris
I try to avoid saying anything positive about any presidential candidate for fear that if I actually like them then I will kill their campaign.
— Jack Abramoff
We can say with some assurance that, although children may be the victims of fate, they will not be the victims of our neglect.
— John F. Kennedy
Don't automatically obey Presidential directives if you disagree or if you suspect he hasn't considered key aspects of the issue.
— Donald Rumsfeld
Let them impeach and be damned.
— Andrew Johnson
I like the job I have, but if I had to live my life over again, I would like to have ended up a sports writer.
— Richard M. Nixon
If I can get on the presidential ballot in all 50 states and be allowed into the debates, I'd not only run, I'd win.
— Jesse Ventura
The disfranchisement of a single legal elector by fraud or intimidation is a crime too grave to be regarded lightly.
— Benjamin Harrison
You know very well that whether you are on page one or page thirty depends on whether they fear you. It's as simple as that.
— Richard M. Nixon
I am glad to see that a system of labor prevails under which laborers can strike when they want to.
— Abraham Lincoln
John Kennedy won the first televised presidential debate among those watching it, while Richard Nixon won among those listening on the radio.
— Susan Estrich
In the execution of Presidential decisions work to be true to his views, in fact and tone.
— Donald Rumsfeld
Public debt [is] a burden on all the people.
— Calvin Coolidge
In my lifetime, we have lost a President, a Civil Rights leader and a Presidential candidate - all to gun violence.
— Marianne Williamson
The crumbling infrastructure turned time back further than any presidential mandate.
— Anthony Marra
Responded with a presidential note describing how Washington defined a "base." Work on the new facility was halted,
— Walter Isaacson
Slavery is the great and foul stain upon the North American Union.
— John Quincy Adams
If it were not for the reporters, I would tell you the truth.
— Chester A. Arthur
Tell him to go to hell.
— Frederick Winslow Taylor
Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.
— Theodore Roosevelt
But however close we sometimes seem to that dark and final abyss, let no man of peace and freedom despair. For he does not stand alone.
— John F. Kennedy
NO POLITICIAN COULD devote as many evenings to poker and whiskey as had Henry Clay and expect a decorous presidential campaign.
— Amy S. Greenberg
It is universally accepted that an admission of atheism would be instant political suicide for any (U.S.) presidential candidate.
— Richard Dawkins
We can afford all that we need; but we can not afford all [that] we want.
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
The lead singer of Creed says he won't endorse President Obama. Well that settles it
Obama will not win the 1998 presidential election. — Stephen Colbert
Obama will not win the 1998 presidential election. — Stephen Colbert
A zebra can not change it's spots.
— Al Gore
I don't want some mom, whose son may have recently died, to see the commander in chief playing golf.
— George W. Bush
The glass is not half empty; it is half full.
— Ronald Reagan Presidential Library Found
Evil acts of the past are never rectified by evil acts of the present.
— Lyndon B. Johnson
Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.
— Thomas Jefferson
We must not be misled by the claim that the source of all wisdom is in the government.
— Herbert Hoover
The ability to produce every necessity of life renders us independent in war as well as in peace.
— Millard Fillmore
When I hit the skins they all say, 'Damn Kane ...
You knock out the Bush like a presidential campaign!' — Big Daddy Kane
You knock out the Bush like a presidential campaign!' — Big Daddy Kane
Every now and then, a presidential candidate surprises us with a truly human and honest moment.
— Ron Fournier
Religious and racial persecution is moronic at all times, perhaps the most idiotic of human stupidities.
— Harry S. Truman
Have you seen these Republican presidential candidates? I bet Obama is sorry now that he spent all that money on the new birth certificate.
— David Letterman
A decent and manly examination of the acts of government should not only be tolerated, but encouraged.
— William Henry Harrison
Bring us together again.
— Richard M. Nixon
Despite the increasingly presidential style of political leadership in our country, teamwork is essential.
— Bob Ainsworth
Absolute freedom of the press to discuss public questions is a foundation stone of American liberty.
— Herbert Hoover
The first presidential debate was down in Florida. Residents spent all day putting plywood on their televisions.
— David Letterman
One of my hardest parts of my job is to console the family members who have lost their life.
— George W. Bush
Ultimately, presidential campaigns are - or at least should be - about the candidates, not their spouses or surrogates.
— Andrew Rosenthal
The politics of crime is not about a party's record or a candidates proposals, but about perceived character and values.
— Susan Estrich
While we are fighting for freedom, we must see, among other things, that labor is free.
— Woodrow Wilson
We support the security of both Israel and her neighbors.
— John F. Kennedy
A pen is certainly an excellent instrument to fix a man's attention and to inflame his ambition.
— John Adams
You, of Canada, are building a magnificent record of achievement. My country rejoices in it.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
All that harms labor is treason to America.
— Abraham Lincoln
If elected, I shall see to it that every man has a square deal, no less and no more.
— Theodore Roosevelt
Even at the end of a presidential election campaign, we have no way to know what Mitt Romney really believes.
— Carl Bernstein
America cannot be an ostrich with its head in the sand.
— Woodrow Wilson
100 political parties put together can never defeat the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, come 2015 presidential election.
— Patience Jonathan
It is obvious that while science is struggling to bring Heaven to earth some men are using its materials in the construction of Hell.
— Herbert Hoover
I consider a decent respect for Christianity among the best recommendations for public service.
— John Adams
Today, the most important political instrument in the hands of the opposition is the presidential veto.
— Donald Tusk
The typical presidential staff resents the vice-president even more than they do the first lady.
— Dick Morris
I want a kinder, gentler nation.
— George H. W. Bush
Truth alone can stand the guns of criticism.
— Herbert Hoover
No great question will ever be settled in dollars and cents. Great questions must be settled on moral grounds and the tests of what makes free men.
— Herbert Hoover
I don't feel like I'm running against them, I feel like I'm running to try to show the American people what I can do and what I can accomplish.
— Rudy Giuliani
No presidential candidate should visit Las Vegas without condemning organized gambling.
— Ralph Nader
I may not worry as much as Prime Minister Eshkol does about Israel, but I worry as deeply.
— Lyndon B. Johnson
Full federal funding for presidential libraries should bring with it new rules of control over papers and artifacts.
— Robert Dallek