#residents

Presidents with strong nerves are decisive. They don't balk at unpopular decisions. They are willing to make people angry. Bush had strong nerves. Clinton, who passed up a chance to eliminate Osama bin Laden, did not. Obama is a people pleaser, a trait not normally associated with nerves of steel. ↗

— Fred Barnes

#associated #balk #bin #bush #chance

People tend to judge presidents on how the economy performs, and yet we don't expect them to have the power to do much about it. Or we don't want them to exercise that power, if they were to have it. ↗

— Barbara Ehrenreich

#economy #exercise #expect #how #judge

The principles and policy of these Presidents were marked by the most enlarged and comprehensive statesmanship, promoting the highest interests of the Republic. ↗

— Robert Toombs

#enlarged #highest #interests #marked #most

Obama is making a choice now that will lead to the deaths of many thousands of civilians in Afghanistan by American hands. By ordinary standards of presidents, he is a decent man. But those standards aren't good enough. He's in a position either to kill or not to kill, and he's made the decision to kill. ↗

— Daniel Ellsberg

#american #choice #civilians #deaths #decent

I think Ronald Reagan was one of the great presidents, period, not just recently. I thought he had the demeanor. I thought he had the bearing. I thought he had the thought process. ↗

— Donald Trump

#demeanor #great #had #i #i think

Assassins and presidents invite the same basic question: Just who do you think you are? ↗

— Sarah Vowell

#basic #invite #just #presidents #question

I only play projects with weird interpretations of presidents. ↗

— Benjamin Walker

#interpretations #only #play #presidents #projects

Some people put down all presidents. If you say anything good about any of them, they think you're supporting everything they do. ↗

— Neil Young

#any #anything #down #everything #good

As I've gotten older, I've gotten more liberal, and my father is increasingly conservative. It's so shocking to me because I always thought we had the same politics. The day I realized we voted for different presidents, I practically fell out of my chair. ↗

— Lauren Graham

#because #chair #conservative #day #different

Look at London or Paris: they're both filthy. You don't get that in Tokyo. The proud residents look after their city. ↗

— Tadao Ando

#both #city #filthy #get #london