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American President Quotes

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 Brooks Adams

On the contrary, I tried on numerous occasions to convince the American president not to go to war. I did what was within my capabilities to avoid that happening.
- Silvio Berlusconi

I believe the most solemn duty of the American president is to protect the American people. If America shows uncertainty and weakness in this decade, the world will drift toward tragedy. This will not happen on my watch.
- George W Bush

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

I found myself thinking about President William McKinley, the third American president to be assassinated. He lived for several days after he was shot, and towards the end, his wife started crying and screaming, "I want to go too! I want to go too!" And with his last measure of strength, McKinley turned to her and spoke his last words: "We are all going.
- John Green

The more I have studied Lincoln, the more I have followed his thought processes, the more I am convinced that he understood leadership better than any other American president.
- David Herbert Donald

So it is always preferable to discuss the matter of veganism in a non-judgemental way. Remember that to most people, eating flesh or dairy and using animal products such as leather, wool, and silk, is as normal as breathing air or drinking water. A person who consumes dairy or uses animal products is not necessarily or usually what a recent and unpopular American president labelled an evil doer.
- Gary L Francione

And what does reward virtue? You think the communist commissar rewards virtue? You think a Hitler rewards virtue? You think, excuse me, if you'll pardon me, American presidents reward virtue? Do they choose their appointees on the basis of the virtue of the people appointed or on the basis of their political clout?
- Milton Friedman

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

Actually, today I had to defend the Bush Administration in France again. They refuse to accept, because of their political ideology, that he has actually done more than any American President for Africa. But it's empirically so.
- Bob Geldof

President George W. Bush is the first American president to call openly for two-states, Israel and Palestine, living side by side in peace and security.
- Lee H Hamilton

When American presidents prepare for foreign wars, they lie.
- Robert Higgs

We went into Iraq because Saddam Hussein refused to account for his weapons of mass destruction, consistently violated UN resolutions and in a post-9/11 world no American president could afford to give Saddam Hussein the benefit of the doubt.
- Peter King

My message to the Americans, to the American President, is that I am coming from Poland, which is in good shape; it is much different than ten years ago when last state visit from Poland was here in the United States.
- Aleksander Kwasniewski

Because liberalism typically doesn't sell in American presidential politics, liberal candidates tend to run as culturally conservative centrists.
- Rich Lowry

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

When I am speaking about American presidents, I have to speak about my very special relations with President Clinton. He contributed more to peace than anybody else in the American sense.
- Shimon Peres

I don't think anybody can take the word of Saddam Hussein and his regime, and certainly an American president and allies who are obligated to worry about the safety and security of our countries, cannot take the word of this dictator, who lies, pathologically lies.
- Condoleezza Rice

I have never been more proud of the United States than I am this year. We have elected an African-American president. We have the stellar Michelle Obama setting the standard for American women. I simply cannot say it enough: look how far we've come.
- Kathryn Stockett

American presidents always avoid shaking hands with brutal dictators, except when it's advantageous to do so.
- Elizabeth A Sherman

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

There is no excitement anywhere in the world, short of war, to match the excitement of the American presidential campaign.
- Theodore White

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