“Can we drop a little bit of the pious baloney? The fact is, you ran in '94 and lost. That's why you weren't serving in the Senate with Rick Santorum. The fact is, you had a very bad re-election rating, you dropped out of office, you had been out of state for something like 200 days preparing to run for president. You didn't have this interlude of citizenship while you thought about what you do. You were running for president while you were governor.” LittlesStatesFactsRunningLostBitsPresidentRepublicanOfficeLittle BitElectionRanServingSenateGovernorsCitizenshipPreparingRatingPiousBaloney Author:Newt Gingrich
“I could never wrap my head around why the world and the President that Republicans describe bears so little resemblance to the world and the President that I experience. And now I know why. There is a President Obama that only Republicans can see.” KnowsWorldLittlesPresidentBearsRepublicanPresident ObamaWrapsResemblance Author:Jon Stewart
“And it's a little - very humbling to think that running for president of the United States is - for a kid from Brooklyn, it's quite a step.” ThinkingLittlesStatesRunningKidsPresidentUnitedStepsUnited StatesBrooklynHumbling Author:Rudy Giuliani
“I think all of our experience with Iraqi President Saddam Hussein teaches us that diplomacy has very little chance of working unless it is clear to him that if diplomacy does not work, that the threatened reality of force is there.” IfsThinkingLittlesDoeRealityForcePresidentChanceTeachClearThreatenedSaddamDiplomacyHussein Author:Tony Blair
“I think President Obama has always been a little bit underestimated. Some of the things he's done with foreign policy have been unassailable. Getting us out of Iraq, killing Osama Bin Laden.” ThinkingLittlesHas BeensDoneBitsPresidentPolicyLittle BitKillingIraqPresident ObamaForeign PolicyBin LadenOsama Bin LadenUnderestimated Author:Willie Geist
“Go little book, thy self present, As child whose parent is unkent: To him that is the president Of noblesse and of chivalry, And if that Envy bark at thee, As sure it will, for succour flee.” IfsChildrenLittlesBookSelfParentPresidentEnvyTheeBarkChivalry Author:Edmund Spenser
“Humor is a marvelous communications tool, as Reagan has demonstrated so well. He has weathered many a storm that others might not have. With Reagan, people just say, 'There he goes again.' A sense of humor allows a president to back off a little from the tensions of the moment and take a calmer view of things.” PeopleWellsLittlesMomentsMightPresidentViewsCommunicationToolsStormTensionSense Of HumorMarvelousCalmerWeathered Author:Robert Orben