#reside

I personally believe that the office of the President of India is not to be sought. It is to be offered. ↗

— Pranab Mukherjee

#i #india #offered #office #personally

Indian president does not determine policy. Here President is not the policy maker. In the name of the president, the cabinet takes the policy decision. ↗

— Pranab Mukherjee

#decision #determine #does #here #indian

First, President Reagan was not enthusiastic. But I built up a relationship with him in other areas and then persuaded him that this was important to us and to me, and that we had to at least be in the process of looking at this seriously. ↗

— Brian Mulroney

#built #enthusiastic #first #had #him

So that was Reagan's political problem. As a rancher in California, he was an environmentalist himself. But the President of the United States doesn't control everything that happens in Washington. ↗

— Brian Mulroney

#control #environmentalist #everything #happens #himself

Satellite broadcasting makes it possible for information-hungry residents of many closed societies to bypass state-controlled television channels. ↗

— Rupert Murdoch

#bypass #channels #closed #makes #many

If I were president of the United States, I'd build a great wall along the Mexican border and not let anybody in. ↗

— Dave Mustaine

#anybody #border #build #great #great wall

Campaigns often make standing on principle the highest of virtues - and listening to your opponents a sure sign of weakness. It's the virtual opposite of what it takes to succeed in office. Squaring the circle takes a powerful combination of skills. But presidents who can campaign and compromise are generally the most successful. ↗

— Dee Dee Myers

#campaigns #circle #combination #compromise #generally

Bill Clinton sitting on Air Force One getting his hair cut while people around the country cooled their heels and waited for him, became a metaphor for a populist president who had gotten drunk with the perks of his own power and was sort of, you know, not sensitive to what people wanted. ↗

— Dee Dee Myers

#air force #around #became #bill #bill clinton

I think a lot of presidents learn to be president by being president. ↗

— Dee Dee Myers

#i #i think #learn #lot #president

My job is to be a spokesman - the spokesman, I suppose - for the President, for the White House, to do the daily briefings, to manage the press corps in terms of travel, day-to-day needs, access, interviews, all those issues. ↗

— Dee Dee Myers

#briefings #corps #daily #day-to-day #house