#presidents

I think that presidents don't give up power that has accrued to them by the precedent of previous presidents. Even when they say they would like to, I think once they get there they don't give it up. ↗

— Rachel Maddow

#get #give #i #i think #like

Midterm elections for first-term presidents are notoriously difficult. ↗

— Tim Kaine

#elections #notoriously #presidents

Our chief justices have probably had more profound and lasting influence on their times and on the direction of the nation than most presidents. ↗

— Richard M. Nixon

#direction #had #influence #justices #lasting

My own view is that taping of conversations for historical purposes was a bad decision on the part of all the presidents. I don't think Kennedy should have done it. I don't think Johnson should have done it, and I don't think we should have done it. ↗

— Richard M. Nixon

#conversations #decision #done #historical #i

I've done it 30 years. I don't know what there is to gain by doing it 40. But I think there is something about doing it over that length of time that says something. That's seven U.S. presidents and five presidents of McDonald's. ↗

— Don Novello

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In our brief national history we have shot four of our presidents, worried five of them to death, impeached one and hounded another out of office. And when all else fails, we hold an election and assassinate their character. ↗

— P. J. O'Rourke

#assassinate #brief #character #death #election

And we have done more in the two and a half years that I've been in here than the previous 43 Presidents to uphold that principle, whether it's ending "don't ask, don't tell," making sure that gay and lesbian partners can visit each other in hospitals, making sure that federal benefits can be provided to same-sex couples. ↗

— Barack Obama

#been #benefits #couples #done #each

The presidents I served under don't have anything to do with my politics. ↗

— William Odom

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I would say to my colleague that the misery index, inflation and unemployment, when added together is the lowest it has been in the last series of Presidents, even going back to Jimmy Carter. So I think the Bush administration is doing a good job. ↗

— Cliff Stearns

#administration #back #been #bush #bush administration

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

#anything #doing #done #many #nixon