“I met this woman who was a hundred, this housekeeper, a hundred years old. I interviewed her. She just told me about her whole life. She's like, 'I can't read, I can't write; I can tell you who I was working for, and I can tell you the year, but who was president?” WritingYearsI CanWholePresidentMetsHundredWhole LifeHousekeepers Author:Tate Taylor
“One hundred percent of the time, no plea bargain, no bail, you're going to the penitentiary - that will change the atmosphere in this culture of violence the president talks about.” CulturePresidentViolencePercentHundredAtmosphereBargainsBail Author:Wayne LaPierre
“In the ten years I was president of the Teamsters, I had raised the membership from eight hundred thousand to more than 2 million and made it the largest single labor union the world.” WorldYearsMadePresidentMillionsThousandTenHundredLaborUnionsRaisedEightMade ItMembershipLabor Union Author:Jimmy Hoffa
“As President, I was able to save with the stroke of the pen a hundred million acres of wilderness area in Alaska. This is the kind of thing that is is gratifying to a President, but to be on a solitary stream with good friends, with a fly rod in your hand, and to have a successfull or even an unsuccessful day-they're all successful-is an even greater delight.” KindHandsAblePresidentMillionsSuccessfulGreaterSeaHundredAreasRiversFishesDelightBoatStreamsLakesFishingWildernessPensSolitaryGood FriendStrokesAlaskaAcresUnsuccessful Author:Jimmy Carter
“THURSDAY, APRIL 5, 1894... I met with the Quorum and Presidency in the temple... President Woodruff then spoke... 'In searching out my genealogy I found about four hundred of my female kindred who were never married. I asked Pres. Young what I should do with them. He said for me to have them sealed to me unless there were more than 999 of them. The doctrine startled me, but I had it done.” ShouldSaidDoneYoungFoundPresidentFourMetsMarriedHundredFemaleDoctrineTemplesSpokesPresidencyAprilPolygamyKindredThursdayGenealogy Author:Abraham H. Cannon
“Her nomination for vice president in 2008 represents the most desperate inclinations of the Republican Party. In two hundred years, I suspect historians will use Palin as an example of how insane America became in the decade following the destruction of the World Trade Center, and her origin story will seem as extraterrestrial and eccentric as Abe Lincoln jumping out of a window to undermine a voting quorum in 1840.” WorldYearsTwoStoriesUseSeemsAmericaPresidentPartyExampleRepublicanHundredWindowDestructionTradeVicesFollowingDecadesInsaneDesperateVotingSuspectsHistorianRepublican PartyJumpingInclinationEccentricVice PresidentPalinNominationsWorld TradeWorld Trade CenterExtraterrestrialAbe Book:I Wear the Black Hat: Grappling with Villains (Real and Imagined) Source: I Wear the Black Hat: Grappling with Villains (Real and Imagined)
“One hundred years of delay have passed since President Lincoln freed the slaves, yet their heirs, their grandsons, are not fully free. They are not yet freed from the bonds of injustice. They are not yet freed from social and economic oppression. And this nation, for all its hopes and all its boasts, will not be fully free until all its citizens are free.” YearsNationsSocialPresidentEconomicCitizensHundredSlaveInjusticeOppressionDelayBoastHeirsGrandsonPresident Lincoln Author:John F. Kennedy
“I never thought that Bill Clinton should be the president. When he was running to be the president of the United States, he said on over a hundred occasions, he said the following: He said, 'One of the great accomplishments while I was the governor of Arkansas, was to take my state in education from 50th to 49th.' And I thought, ' you know, Bill, you should keep that a secret.” KnowsShouldSaidStatesRunningPresidentUnitedSecretUnited StatesHundredBillsClintonFollowingOccasionsAccomplishmentGovernorsArkansasGreat Accomplishment Author:Lewis Black
“President Obama is sending a couple hundred troops to Iraq. We spent six years trying to figure a way to get out of Iraq. And now we're back. But this time there is an exit strategy. Barack Obama has an exit strategy. In 2016, he's gone.” WayTryingYearsPresidentGoneFiguresCoupleSixHundredStrategyIraqBarackPresident ObamaTroopsExit Author:David Letterman
“I'm going to be a vice president very much like George Bush was. He proved to be a very effective vice president, perhaps the most effective we've had in a couple of hundred years.” YearsPoliticsPresidentCoupleHundredVicesVice President Author:Dan Quayle
“Seven hundred and sixteen billion dollars, funneled out of Medicare by President Obama. An obligation we have to our parents and grandparents is being sacrificed, all to pay for a new entitlement we didn't even ask for. The greatest threat to Medicare is Obamacare, and we're going to stop it.” AsksParentPresidentPayHundredDollarsThreatSevenBillionsObligationPresident ObamaGrandparentEntitlementObamacareMedicareSixteenParents And Grandparents Author:Paul Ryan
“All this will not be finished in the first one hundred days. Nor will it be finished in the first one thousand days . . .nor even perhaps in our lifetime on this planet. But let us begin.” LifeInspirationalFirstsPoliticsPresidentChangeCouragePlanetsThousandHundredLifetimeFinishedPresidentialNew BeginningsForesightNew Year New Start Author:John F. Kennedy