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“The Tenth Commandment sends a message to socialists, to egalitarians, to people obsessed with fairness, to American presidential candidates in the year 2000 - to everyone who believes that wealth should be redistributed. And that message is clear and concise: Go to Hell.”

Source: Eat the Rich: A Treatise on Economics

“The American president [George W. Bush] closes his eyes to the economic and human damages that are inflicted on his country and the world economy by natural disasters, like Katrina, through neglected climate protection.”

“I did attempt to find out if there were any secret government documents that revealed things. If there were, they were concealed from me too. And if there were, well I wouldn't be the first American president that underlings have lied to, or that career bureaucrats have waited out. But there may be some career person sitting around somewhere, hiding these dark secrets, even from elected presidents. But if so, they successfully eluded me...and I'm almost embarrassed to tell you I did (chuckling) try to find out.”

“I'm not going to be the first American president to lose a war.”

Firsts War President Loses Vietnam Vietnam War American President

Author:Richard M. Nixon

“Actually, today I had to defend the Bush Administration in France again. They refuse to accept, because of their political ideology, that he has actually done more than any American President for Africa. But it's empirically so.”

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Author:Bob Geldof

“I don't think anybody can take the word of Saddam Hussein and his regime, and certainly an American president and allies who are obligated to worry about the safety and security of our countries, cannot take the word of this dictator, who lies, pathologically lies.”

Thinking Country Lying President Worry Security Safety Our Country Deceit Allies Regimes Dictator Saddam Hussein American President Safety And Security

Author:Condoleezza Rice

“We completely condemn this very dangerous attack, and I convey my condolences to the American people, to the American president and to the American administration, not only in my name, but on behalf of the Palestinian people.”

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Author:Yasser Arafat

“I send my condolences, and the condolences of the Palestinian people to American President Bush and his government and to the American people for this terrible act....We completely condemn this serious operation.... We were completely shocked.... It's unbelievable, unbelievable, unbelievable.”

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Author:Yasser Arafat

“The American president just won the nobel peace prize, by any reasonable measure, all Americans should be proud.”

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Author:Rachel Maddow

“The more I have studied Lincoln, the more I have followed his thought processes, the more I am convinced that he understood leadership better than any other American president.”

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Author:David Herbert Donald

“I have never been more proud of the United States than I am this year. We have elected an African-American president. We have the stellar Michelle Obama setting the standard for American women. I simply cannot say it enough: look how far we've come.”

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Author:Kathryn Stockett

“Because liberalism typically doesn't sell in American presidential politics, liberal candidates tend to run as culturally conservative centrists.”

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Author:Rich Lowry

“We are the ones we've been waiting for.”

Author:June Jordan

“The United States is the leader of the free world.”

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Author:Elizabeth Dole

“A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.”

“No American president can support an Egypt that calls into question the historic treaty between Israel and Egypt. And no American president can support an Egypt that doesn't fully recognize women's rights or the rights of religious minorities.”

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Author:Condoleezza Rice

“There is no excitement anywhere in the world, short of war, to match the excitement of the American presidential campaign.”

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Author:Theodore White

“My message to the Americans, to the American President, is that I am coming from Poland, which is in good shape; it is much different than ten years ago when last state visit from Poland was here in the United States.”

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Author:Aleksander Kwasniewski

“The number of American presidential candidates varies with the sunspot cycle and the phases of the moon. Being a Republican, I'm backing Hillary Clinton. Because she could lose. The reason is not that she's a woman. The reason is that she's the particular woman who taught the 4th grade class that every man in America wished he were dead in. Hillary Clinton is Lucy holding the football for Charlie Brown. Hillary Clinton is "America's ex-wife."”

“When Ronald Reagan's career in show business came to an end, he was hired to impersonate, first, a California governor and then an American president who would reduce taxes for his employers, the Southern and Western New Rich, much of whose money came from the defence industries. There is nothing unusual about this arrangement. All recent presidents have had their price-tags.”

Source: Imperial America: Reflections on the United States of Amnesia

“I think that American presidents, that position in itself, as well as American foreign policy, it has terrorism in it. CIA agents going to overthrow certain governments - they're using terrorist tactics. They're not going in there like, 'Hey, you wanna have some cake?'”

“President George W. Bush is the first American president to call openly for two-states, Israel and Palestine, living side by side in peace and security.”

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Author:Lee H. Hamilton

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