“There's one reason why [Presidents' Day] is a holiday. It had nothing to do with our country deciding that we wanted to show reverence for our presidents, Lincoln, Washington, or all of them. Nothing to do with that. The ski industry wanted a three-day weekend.” CountryReasonShowsWantedThreePresidentIndustryOur CountryReason WhyHolidayWeekendReverenceSkisPresidents DayPresident Lincoln Author:Rush Limbaugh
“Here the system is creating an industry around the drug issue when it does nothing to stop the corrupt military that moves the drugs, and the big banks that are all in cahoots with the President and the big shots in the Congress.” DoeBigsMovingPresidentIssuesMilitaryIndustryDrugCreatingShotsCongressBig Shots Author:Jerry Brown
“I've had a terrific life, from building one company to be the second largest company in the securities industry and merging that into American Express, and becoming president of that company.” PresidentCompanyEconomySecurityBuildingIndustryBecomingTerrificMergingAmerican ExpressBecoming President Author:Sanford I. Weill
“Shortly after taking office in 1993, President Bill Clinton and Vice President Al Gore called for a shift in American technology policy toward an expansion of public investments in partnerships with private industry.” PresidentTechnologyPolicyIndustryOfficeBillsClintonInvestmentVicesAlsPartnershipExpansionGoreVice PresidentPresident Bill Clinton Author:Lewis M. Branscomb
“As our boys and men are all expecting to be Presidents, so our girls and women must all hold themselves in readiness to preside inthe White House; and in no city in the world can honest industry be more at a discount than in this capital of the government of the people.” PeopleMenWorldGovernmentGirlHouseWomenPresidentWorkWhiteCitiesBoysHonestIndustryWhite HouseExpectingReadinessDiscountsCities In The World Author:Jane Swisshelm
“I think those autoworkers whose industry would have collapsed if the president hadn't intervened are certainly better off.” IfsThinkingPresidentIndustryBetter Off Author:David Axelrod
“As a new president takes office and elevates global warming alarmism to official federal policy, much of America is experiencing record low temperatures. While the deep freeze amounts to little more than irony, Americans should nevertheless take what could well be a last opportunity to reconsider the cliff off which Barack Obama, Al Gore and the rest of the global warming industry want us to jump.” WantShouldWellsLittlesLastsAmericaOpportunityPresidentRecordsPolicyIndustryAmountOfficeLowsBarackIronyOfficialsGlobal WarmingAlsNeverthelessWant UCliffsTemperatureGoreFreeze Author:Steven Milloy
“Imagine a senator running for president whose positions included halving the military budget, socializing the medical system, re-regulating the communications and electrical industries, establishing a guaranteed minimum income for all Americans, and equalizing funding for all schools regardless of property valuations - and who promised to fire Alan Greenspan, counseled withdrawal from the World Trade Organization, and, for good measure, spoke warmly of adolescent sexual experimentation. That was Barry Goldwater, conservative.” WorldRunningSchoolPresidentFireImagineMilitaryPositionCommunicationIndustryOrganizationTradePropertyConservativeMedicalIncomeBudgetsSpokesMinimumSenatorsFundingElectricalExperimentationWithdrawalWorld TradeSocializingValuationMilitary BudgetWorld Trade Organization Author:Rick Perlstein
“The president has been a true friend of the ag industry, because he continues to invest large amounts of money at a time when savings is really the goal of the federal government to deal with the deficit.” Has BeensGovernmentGoalPresidentDealsIndustryAmountSavingFederal GovernmentDeficitTrue FriendSavings Author:Mike Johanns
“Overall, you know, no state in our country has been hurt more by the eight years of Barack Obama than Wyoming has been, and whether it's the absolutely unconstitutional role that the EPA is playing and the president trying to kill our coal industry - Wyoming is the nation's largest coal-producing state. So when President Obama and Hillary Clinton say they're gonna put coal out of business, it hits us harder than just about anyplace else.” KnowsTryingYearsHas BeensCountryStatesNationsPresidentHurtRolesIndustryHarderClintonEightOur CountryBarackPresident ObamaCoalBeen HurtUnconstitutionalWyomingEpa Author:Liz Cheney