#residents

I'd read a lot of thrillers about politicians and presidents, but never one where you flip the stereotypes and make good people bad and bad people good. ↗

— David Baldacci

#bad #bad people #flip #good #good people

The fact that so many of your people are today residents and citizens of the United States, lending their influence to our civic and economic life, which has meant so much to our development. ↗

— Frank B. Kellogg

#civic #development #economic #economic life #fact

Nowadays even presidents, vice-presidents, and heads of big agencies are opening their minds to accept psychic phenomena, because they know it works. ↗

— Uri Geller

#agencies #because #big #even #heads

When American presidents prepare for foreign wars, they lie. ↗

— Robert Higgs

#foreign #lie #prepare #presidents #wars

Desperate people are dangerous people. ↗

— Bob Ritter

#assessments #dangerousness #presidents #psychological-profile #secret-service

My friends... ↗

— John McCain

#funny #government #presidents #speech #funny

The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battle-field, and patriot grave, to every living heart and hearth-stone, all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature. --as quoted in THE RIVER OF WINGED DREAMS ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#angels #civil-war #democracy #destiny #determination

If presidents can't do it to their wives, they do it to their country. ↗

— Mel Brooks

#presidents #their #wives

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

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

— Sarah Vowell

#basic #invite #just #presidents #question