Win The Life

The presidency has made every man who occupied it, no matter how small, bigger than he was; and no matter how big, not big enough for its demands. - Lyndon Baines Johnson

 

No man will ever bring out of the Presidency the reputation which carries him into it. To myself, personally, it brings nothing but increasing drudgery and daily loss of friends. - Thomas Jefferson

 

If the Soviet empire still existed, I'd be terrified. The fact is, we can afford a fairly ignorant presidency now. - Newt Gingrich

 

I want my candidacy for the presidency of the United States to stand for a moment when we the people, stand once again for the independence from a government that has gotten too big and spends too much and has taken away too much of our liberties.-Michele Bachmann

 

I'm very, very concerned about the Bush presidency. I'm worried about the kinds of cuts in domestic programs that mean something to a lot of people, including members of my family, who depend on certain things from the government.-Sarah Jessica Parker

 

If I were president of the United States, I would include Moslems in my presidency.-Jerry Falwell

 

If the American people really come to a settled belief that Bush lied us into war, his presidency will be over.-Bill Kristol

 

If the Soviet empire still existed, I'd be terrified. The fact is, we can afford a fairly ignorant presidency now.-Newt Gingrich

 

In his first 100 days, Mr. Obama has put the fate of his presidency in the hands of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. He may come to regret that decision.-Karl Rove

 

In the scheme of our national government, the presidency is preeminently the people's office.-Grover Cleveland

 

Kennedy did not have to run the risk of having his ideas and his words shortened and adulterated by a correspondent. This was the television era, not only in campaigning, but in holding the presidency.-Hugh Sidey

 

Let me even say before I even get inaugurated, during the transition we are going to be having meetings all across the country with community organizations so that you have input into the agenda for the next presidency of the United States of America.-Barack Obama

 

My fellow citizens, the American Presidency is not supposed to be a journey of personal discovery.-Sarah Palin

 

My hope is that that person will come forward that can win the presidency that we can all get behind.-Rick Perry

 

No man could be equipped for the presidency if he has never been tempted by one of the seven cardinal sins.-Eugene McCarthy

 

No man has the right to use the great powers of the Presidency to lead the people, indirectly, into war.-Wendell Willkie

 

No man will ever carry out of the Presidency the reputation which carried him into it.-Thomas Jefferson

Our aim, during our Presidency in the next six months will be to lead this challenge, to show that Europe can function in a mature and responsible way, to start delivering tangible results that show we are taking people's concerns seriously.-John Hutton

 

Postman is a media analyst and his theory is that television doesn't influence our culture, but that it is our culture and the presidency and anything that relies on television.-Val Kilmer

 

President Ford was a devoted, decent man of impeccable integrity who put service to his country before his own self interest. He helped heal our nation during a time of crisis, provided steady leadership and restored people's faith in the presidency and in government.-Mark Udall

 

Scrubbing floors and emptying bedpans has as much dignity as the Presidency.-Richard M. Nixon

 

So, for example, a country was into recession right after I was sworn in, a dot-com bust had taken place. Then the attacks of September the 11th, and then of course the great financial meltdown in the -the fundamental question facing any presidency is how do you deal with the hand you're dealt?-George W. Bush

 

The book shows Clinton in the presidency as a profile in growth.-Sidney Blumenthal

 

The earlier practice of the Church had been more or less to employ in worship under the presidency of the pastor or pastors, the gifts of the congregation.-Robert Rainy

 

The entire economy, of course, is locked in a down cycle right now. Last time we weathered this was during another Bush presidency in '90. We were locked in it for a year and a half and everyone came out of it.-David Talbot

 

The Obama presidency has two great missions: fixing the economy, and preventing Iran from gaining nuclear weapons.-Benjamin Netanyahu

 

The presidency has made every man who occupied it, no matter how small, bigger than he was; and no matter how big, not big enough for its demands.-Lyndon B. Johnson

 

The presidency has many problems, but boredom is the least of them.-Richard M. Nixon

 

The presidency is more than a popularity contest.-Al Gore

 

The presidency is not an entry-level electoral job.-John Podhoretz

 

The standard rumor at the time was that Rumsfeld, as chief of staff, had persuaded President Ford to appoint George H.W. Bush as director of Central Intelligence, assuming that that got rid of a potential competitor for the presidency.-Bobby R. Inman

 

The student community of Presidency College was also politically most active.-Amartya Sen

 

The vice president had a bargaining asset, however, that no ordinary person has: He was next in line to the presidency. I saw no chance that he would resign first, then take his chances on trial, conviction, and jail.-Elliot Richardson

 

There has been so much power concentrated. There is no leash on that power anymore and Americans face the situation that this power is getting momentum with each passing year with each presidency.-James Bovard

 

 

There have been at least three other cases in which federal agencies have succeeded in placing fake news reports on television during the Bush presidency. It was a really good tour. It seemed maybe about a week too long.-Frank Rich

 

Watergate had become the center of the media's universe, and during the remaining year of my presidency the media tried to force everything else to revolve around it.-Richard M. Nixon

Watergate was unique because it allowed the public to play its democratic role in expressing its outrage at the presidency. And as a result, for the first time in history a president resigned.-Samuel Dash

 

We have a president who stole the presidency through family ties, arrogance and intimidation, employing Republican operatives to exercise the tactics of voter fraud by disenfranchising thousands of blacks, elderly Jews and other minorities.-Barbra Streisand

 

Well, it seems to me Lincoln, I suppose, is kind of a model of a particular sort of presidency, a presidency that first of all is elected by a minority of the votes.-David Herbert Donald

 

Well, my constituents are happy that the Republican Party has finally gotten off its duff, seeing that we do control the House and the Senate and the presidency, and taken up the issue of illegal immigration.-Dana Rohrabacher

 

Well, Warren Harding, I have got you the presidency. What are you going to do with it?-Florence Harding

 

Whatever he does should be seen as working at the Presidency and if he goes to Colorado for Christmas, it should be for a minimum amount of time, the family tradition and family get-together aspect emphasized, and it be seen as a working vacation.-Robert Teeter

 

When the burdens of the presidency seem unusually heavy, I always remind myself it could be worse. I could be a mayor.-Lyndon B. Johnson