#presidency

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

#been #concentrated #each #face #getting

Anybody who wants the presidency so much that he'll spend two years organizing and campaigning for it is not to be trusted with the office. ↗

— David Broder

#campaigning #much #office #organizing #presidency

As to the presidency, the two happiest days of my life were those of my entrance upon the office and my surrender of it. ↗

— Martin Van Buren

#entrance #happiest #life #my life #office

I read the book with interest, but when Jackson was a candidate in 1828 for the Presidency, I opposed him and voted for Adams. I favored a protective tariff. ↗

— Ezra Cornell

#book #candidate #favored #him #i

Well, one of the things a lot of Americans don't know, when Mitt Romney is nominated a few days from now, he will be the most experienced executive to be nominated for the presidency since Dwight Eisenhower in 1952, who had run a university and had run the allied war effort. That's actually a big deal. ↗

— Artur Davis

#allied #big #big deal #days #deal

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

#first #first of all #i #kind #lincoln

Clearly, the Obama presidency hasn't wiped out racial prejudices. ↗

— Ron Fournier

#hasn #obama #obama presidency #out #prejudices

It's an appeal as old as America and its presidency: This is an extraordinary country populated by hard-working, big-dreaming, freedom-loving people graced by God when they're not pulling themselves up by the bootstraps. ↗

— Ron Fournier

#appeal #bootstraps #country #extraordinary #freedom-loving

Obama won the presidency on the strength of his message and the skills of the messenger. Now the talk of hope and change feels out of tune when so many Americans are out of work, over-mortgaged, and worried that life will be even tougher for their children. ↗

— Ron Fournier

#children #even #feels #his #hope

Say what you want to say about the rest of his presidency, including his tone-deaf response to Katrina and a war waged in Iraq on false pretenses, Bush connected with Americans in the aftermath of 9/11 because he looked as frail and unforgiving as we felt. ↗

— Ron Fournier

#aftermath #because #bush #connected #false