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Quote Left Who can tell who will be the President a year from now? -- John F. Kennedy, speaking to the president of Harvard about why he did not want to delay signing documents relating to a future JFK Presidential Library, 2 October 1963. Quote Right
Quote Left The bank aims to prevent exchange-rate volatility in the run-up to the April presidential elections. Quote Right
Quote Left Because of these convictions, I made a personal decision in the 1964 Presidential campaign to make education a fundamental issue and to put it... Quote Right
Quote Left There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never were, and ask why not? Quote Right
Quote Left Neither the doctrine of separation of powers, nor the need for confidentiality of high level communications, without more, can sustain an absolute, unqualified presidential privilege of immunity from judicial process under all circumstances. The President's need for complete candor and objectivity from advisers calls for great deference from the courts. However, when the privilege depends solely on the broad, undifferentiated claim of public interest in the confidentiality of such conversations, a confrontation with other values arises. Absent a claim of need to protect military, diplomatic or sensitive national security secrets, we find it difficult to accept the argument that even the very important interest in confidentiality of Presidential communications is significantly diminished by production of such material for in camera inspection with all the protection that a district court will be obliged to provide. Quote Right
Quote Left From 4 to 6 percent of the presidential office is not in administration but in morals, politics, and spiritual leadership . He has to guide a people in the greatest adventure ever undertaken on the planet. Quote Right
Quote Left I want to make sure everybody who has a job wants a job Quote Right
Quote Left It may seem to your conceited to suppose that you can do anything important toward improving the lot of mankind. But this is a fallacy. You must believe that you can help bring about a better world. A good society is produced only by good individuals, just as truly as a majority in a presidential election is produced by the votes of single electors. Everybody can do something toward creating in his own environment kindly feelings rather than anger, reasonableness rather than hysteria, happiness rather than misery. Quote Right
Quote Left In the past, it seemed to make sense for a sportswriter on sabbatical from the playpen to attend the quadrennial hawgkilling when Presidential... Quote Right
Quote Left I must resist it [a rider on an appropriation bill] to the last extremity. I say, first, I object to the repeal of important legislation desig... Quote Right
Quote Left Under a Presidential government, a nation has, except at the electing moment, no influence; it has not the ballot-box before it; its virtue is gone, and it must wait till its instant of despotism again returns. Quote Right
Quote Left The Senate and House in the Forty-sixth Congress being both Democratic will insist on the right to repeal the election laws [enforcing the Fou... Quote Right
Quote Left We don't typically tend to get into discussing legal matters of that nature. But in this instance, the president chose to respond to it. Call it presidential prerogative. Quote Right
Quote Left A candidate could easily commit political suicide if he were to come up with an unconventional thought during a presidential tour. Quote Right
Quote Left I've read about foreign policy and studied -- I know the number of continents. Quote Right
Quote Left I understand personally that it is frustrating to lose presidential elections by narrow margins. Quote Right
Quote Left Unlike presidential administrations, problems rarely have terminal dates. Quote Right
Quote Left Many, if not all, of my presidential opponents are certifiable idiots. Quote Right
Quote Left As the nation prepares for the upcoming parliamentary and now presidential elections, the United States pledges its full support to Croatia's continued democratic development. Quote Right
Quote Left There is no excitement anywhere in the world, short of war, to match the excitement of the American presidential campaign. Quote Right

Member Quotes About Presidential

Quote Left Regarding Trumps presidential victory: You should reserve your passions for eminent dangers. We've been wound up for over a year due to this odd election cycle. We have to unwind especially to not let ourselves to be misled by our own passions. - Written the day after the Donald Trump victory Quote Right
Quote Left This 2016 presidential election is unprecedented. For one thing both candidates can be indicted before during or after their convention. Clinton for destruction of government documents and Trump for fraud and racketeering at the private college he owns. Quote Right

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