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Presidents today spend more time speaking than they do reading or thinking. — Kathleen Hall Jamieson

If we start electing presidents on the basis of their sexual purity, some real monsters will get into the White House. — Hunter S. Thompson

An important governorship used to be the best springboard for would-be presidents. — Gore Vidal

Everybody brings their personality to any position, and that's true for presidents like anyone else. — Hillary Clinton

Botswana had three successive good presidents who served their legal terms, who did well for their countries - three, not one. — Mo Ibrahim

At best, most college presidents are running something that is somewhere between a faltering corporation and a hotel. — Leon Botstein

How many presidents, do you think, ever said to another guy: 'I can't believe we're doing this in the White House'? — Greg Behrendt

What a welcome sight. You know, it's funny how often people forget that presidents need to eat, too, President — Suzanne Collins

I have worked with Presidents since Eisenhower. We serve together. — John Dingell

Presidents don't have power. Their job is to draw attention away from it. — Douglas Adams

In the sweep of history, George W. Bush will be seen as one of our greatest presidents because of the decisions he made to keep us safe after 9/11. — Ronald Kessler

The Presidents job, is not to wield power himself, but to lead attention away from it. — Douglas Adams

I think a lot of presidents learn to be president by being president. — Dee Dee Myers

Whenever I came up against presidents of other companies, I was always smarter, because I was from the streets. — Berry Gordy

Refuse to accept the narrative of history laid down by presidents, prime ministers, generals and journalists. — Robert Fisk

I find as I grow older, I love those most, whom I loved first. — Thomas Jefferson

Many presidents have believed in God, but Donald Trump evidently believes that he is God. — Michael R. Burch

Fuck money, I don't rap for dead presidents, I'd rather see the president dead, it's never been said, but I said precedents. — Eminem

Someone once called Lincoln two-faced. "If I am two-faced, would I wear the face that I have now?" Lincoln asked. — Judith St. George

Many of the presidents have sworn themselves in to similarly foolish titles: Governor of Cow Pastures, Commanding General of Standing Chickens. — Karen Russell

If you're seeking progress, all presidents are the opposition. You're just fighting different kinds of battles - — Sam Smith

Governors were once minors. Presidents were once residents. — Michael Bassey Johnson

In the past, presidents had been consulted about those kinds of decisions by SGs, and I thought it was the right thing to do. — Donald Verrilli Jr.

Presidents do not go off on leave without telling the country. — Chinua Achebe

I see dead Presidents. Lincoln, Jefferson, Franklin, and Washington. — Nicole Fende

Hello fake Everett children. — Monet Polny

Surveillance changes history. We know this through examples of corrupt presidents like Nixon. — Mikko Hypponen

Why don't presidents fight the war? - Why do they always send the poor? — Daron Malakian

Presidents can be judged by the company they choose to keep. — Nina Easton

Presidents Trump's USA is not a good country to be a sickly person in. — Steven Magee

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

Lincoln was not a type. He stands alone - no ancestors, no fellows, no successors. — Robert Green Ingersoll

Presidents have only two moments of personal seclusion. One is prayer; the other fishing - and they cannot pray all the time! — Herbert Hoover

I'm just raising money. Dead presidents are my relatives. — Juicy J

On ships they call them barnacles; in business they attach themselves to desks and are called vice presidents. — Fred Allen

Power is poison. Its effect on Presidents had always been tragic. — Henry Adams

I've been privileged to meet presidents and sing at inaugurations and other political events. — BeBe Winans

Assassins and presidents invite the same basic question: Just who do you think you are? — Sarah Vowell

Gerald Ford, one of the most admirable presidents of our time, once observed that if Lincoln were alive today, he'd be turning over in his grave. With — David McCullough

All presidents rail against the press. It goes with the turf. — Helen Thomas

Presidents hate the press. They hate me most of the time. — Helen Thomas

Obama has had more fundraisers than the last six presidents combined. And he's still losing in the money race! — Bill Maher

I deal with guys in their 20s and early 30s who are presidents of companies, who are movie directors. — Peter Criss

Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln and Roosevelt faced adversities that, in their times, seemed impregnable. Great presidents overcome great odds. — Ron Fournier

America's presidents tend to die young. Maybe it is in the nature of the men who reach such heights, or of the job once they attain it. — Nancy Gibbs

All presidents get frustrated with Congress. — Marco Rubio

When most presidents get in, they move to the center because they realize that this is a centrist country - even Reagan. — Edward Brooke

The U.S. needs to do more than change presidents. It needs to change its political culture. — Richard Lamm

How do we get from electrons to elections and from protons to presidents? — John Searle

Folks, I can tell you I've known eight presidents, three of them intimately.
Joe Biden, Aug. 22, 2012 — Joe Biden

The whole issue of healthcare is very complicated. There have been seven Presidents who've tried to get healthcare reform passed. — Valerie Jarrett

Presidents are selected, not elected. — Franklin D. Roosevelt

Some people want to be bank presidents. Other people want to rob banks. — Richard Ford

[Ronald]Reagan and[George W.] Bush were far more radical than other presidents. — Kevin Drum

I've played three presidents, three saints and two geniuses - and that's probably enough for any man. — Charlton Heston

Presidents are not elected anymore; they are hired. — Michel Templet

I think George Bush is one of the most duplicitous presidents we've ever had. — Jean O'Leary

Like their predecessors, the Presidents of today just throw up their hands. — Stephen Ambrose

I've decided Mom's boyfriends are a lot like U.S. Presidents. You keep thinking they can't get any worse. And then she comes up with a Lance Wescott. — C.D. Payne

But Nancy is right - Presidents don't have vacations - they just have a change of scenery"; — Ronald Reagan

All modern U.S. presidents are perforce politicians, prisoners of their past pronouncements, their party, their constituency, and their colleagues. — Tony Judt

Bill Clinton was in the line of great progressive presidents who faced the realities in his own time and applied innovative solutions to problems. — Sidney Blumenthal

I want to kill the president because I no like the capitalists. I have the gun in my hand, I kill kings and presidents first and next all capitalists. — Giuseppe Zangara

If presidents can't do it to their wives, they do it to their country. — Mel Brooks

As President Nixon says, presidents can do almost anything, and President Nixon has done many things that nobody would have thought of doing. — Golda Meir

If presidents and prime ministers can find time to stay fit, others of us can find ways to do it, too. — Julian Goater

We all learn submission because we all have 'bosses', whether we're presidents of companies or not. The easiest place to learn it is in family. — Richard Foster

Money is just dirty paper with dead presidents' pictures on it. — Carolyn Brown

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

Seven presidents before him - Democrats and Republicans - tried to expand health care to all Americans. President Obama got it done. — Julian Castro

presidents had to make — David Baldacci

Presidents don't make new friends. That's why they've got to keep their old ones. Adm. Fitzwallace — Aaron Sorkin

Nowadays even presidents, vice-presidents, and heads of big agencies are opening their minds to accept psychic phenomena, because they know it works. — Uri Geller

Over the last few years, the Islamic world has produced more female presidents and prime ministers than both Europe and North America combined. — Reza Aslan

But presidents matter. That's one of the biggest lessons I learned being in the White House. — Sidney Blumenthal

A long life in journalism convinced me many presidents ago that there should be a large air space between a journalist and the head of a state. — Walter Lippmann

Vice presidents are supposed to be eternally loyal, which is why it is so difficult for some to figure out how to succeed their bosses. — Susan Estrich

Desperate people are dangerous people. — Bob Ritter

I don't find any presidents all that sexy. They're not very rock'n'roll. — Carmen Electra

Most college students are not as smart as most college presidents. — Andy Rooney

Presidents, whether things are good or bad, get the blame. I understand that. — George W. Bush

I head a nation of a million presidents. — Chaim Weizmann

It is a long revisionist road up from the bottom for George W. Bush. He is ranked toward the bottom rung of presidents. — Douglas Brinkley

Presidents always want to do nice, noble, long-run things, and Congress is less keen to do so. We've seen that throughout the history of this country. — Tyler Cowen

Wow. Losing 95 percent of your audience in just five years. That basically makes Obama the NBC of presidents. — John Oliver

The people who influence our presidents matter. — Paul Kengor

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

Conservatives don't want to read good, smart books. They mostly want to read Fox and talk radio hosts writing about presidents. — Alex Pareene

The presidents of colleges have to have some courage to step forward. You can't limit alcohol in college sports, you have to get rid of it. — Dean Smith

Presidents grow up in the White House. The times shape the man. — Thomas Friedman

Presidents by six years have been there long enough for the media and the country to see their flaws. — Robert Dallek

Ex-Presidents of the United States get state subsidies. Not so in Russia. You get no government support. — Mikhail Gorbachev

even the presidents of Harvard and Yale saw the War of Independence as part of God's design for the overthrow of Catholicism. — Karen Armstrong

So I start my mission- leave my residence
Thinkin how could I get some dead presidents — Rakim

Great presidents don't just fight good fights - they win them. — Rush Limbaugh

Presidents need to be critically studied and analyzed. — Robert Dallek

I've met a handful of presidents, from Jimmy Carter to Bill Clinton to George Bush to Barack Obama. — Jimmie Johnson

Welcome to the Hall of Presidents. — Ted Theodore

There are only two occasions when Americans respect privacy, especially in Presidents. Those are prayer and fishing. — Herbert Hoover

Is it 'left' to insist that presidents and CIA directors adhere to the law? I don't think so. I think it's American. — Anthony Lewis