“President Obama likes to talk about the Buffett Rule. Well, here's a Buffett Rule that all Americans should be able to support: mom and pop businesses should not pay a higher tax rate than Fortune 500 corporations like Warren Buffett's.” ShouldWellsAblePresidentPaySupportMomHigherTaxesFortuneRatePopsLikesCorporationsPresident ObamaBuffettWarren Buffet Author:Rob Portman
“It's pretty cool to be able to hang out with the President and have the race-winning car on the South Lawn.” AbleWinningPresidentRaceCarSouthHanging OutLawns Author:Buddy Rice
“I would love to be able to serve in office in some capacity with Romney as president.” AblePresidentOfficeCapacityRomney Author:Jim Talent
“Chairman Priebus set out on an early and historic political outreach plan which called for investing resources early to build the RNC network well before Election Day. And although the elections are still eight months away, all indications are that the money has been well spent. Our message is getting out to the Hispanic, Asian and African American communities. If we can continue to implement this plan, we will be able to save the country from further policy damages at the hand of President Obama and the Democrats.” IfsWellsHas BeensStillsCountryHandsAblePoliticalOpportunityGrowthPresidentCommunityPlansPolicyMonthsMessagesResourcesElectionDemocratInvestingEightAfrican AmericanDamagePresident ObamaHistoricAsianChairmanIndicationHispanicElection DayOutreach Author:Matt Schlapp
“The Bush administration, they had two blue ribbon commissions about infrastructure finance that recommended a lot more money, and additionally the gas tax being increased. We couldn't get them to accept being able to move forward. Since President Obama's been in office, there has been, to be charitable, a lack of enthusiasm for raising the gas tax.” Has BeensTwoAbleMovingPresidentAcceptingTaxesOfficeBlueMoving ForwardFinanceEnthusiasmAdministrationGasPresident ObamaMore MoneyInfrastructureCharitableRibbons Author:Ray LaHood
“The United States is too big and we are too involved with too many people for any president to be able to take actions that will be universally agreed to all day, every day and everywhere in the world.” PeopleWorldStatesBigsAbleActionPresidentUnitedUnited StatesInvolved Author:William J. Clinton
“I would give a lot to actually be able to glamour China into not wanting ivory. I can't even tell you how much I would give to be able to stop the illicit trade of Africa's wildlife, and to just look into the president of China's eyes and say, "You don't want this anymore, your country doesn't want this anymore," and have it be done. That would be great.” WantGivingLooksI CanCountryDoneWould BeEyeAblePresidentTradeChinaGlamourWildlifeIvory Author:Kristin Bauer van Straten
“I've been able to dine with presidents, with leaders of corporations, traveled for 14 years with (financier and philanthropist) Michael Milken, who has taught me so much about life. Hanging around with them, it's nothing I could have believed in grade school. I could be with all of them? Milton Berle, Don Rickles, Dean Martin ... this former third-string pitcher from the Norristown High baseball team and the son of an Italian immigrant? I really am in awe when I think that has happened to me. What a life.” ThinkingYearsAbleSchoolPresidentLeaderHappenedTeamTaughtSonBaseballThirdsFormerCorporationsAweGradesImmigrantsStringsItalianTraveledPitcherDeanPhilanthropistMiltonHanging AroundDineGrades In SchoolFinanciersBaseball Team Author:Tommy Lasorda
“Whenever I look at the history of presidents I deeply admire - the one thing that I'm always struck by is persistence. It's a quality that's underrated. Being able to plough through, being able to stay buoyant in the face of challenges.” LooksAbleFacesPresidentChallengesQualityOne ThingAdmirePersistenceUnderrated Author:Barack Obama
“In general I saw my job as the first president whose full term would be served after the Cold War in a global information society where we were interdependent but not integrated. And therefore, we were vulnerable to the worst, and able to seize the best, of what's going on in the world.” WorldFirstsWarWould BeAbleJobsPresidentTermSawsWorstInformationColdVulnerableCold WarIntegratedInformation Society Author:William J. Clinton
“I believe the best way to help our small businesses is not only through small-business loans, which we have increased since I've been the president of the United States, but to unbundle government contracts so people have a chance to be able to bid and receive a contract to help get their business going.” PeopleWayBelieveStatesHelpingGovernmentAbleI BelievePresidentChanceUnitedUnited StatesBest WayContractsSmall BusinessLoan Author:George W. Bush
“It is a key fact about American policy in Vietnam that the withdrawel of American troops was built into it from the start. None of the presidents who waged war in Vietnam contemplated an open-ended campaign; all promised the public that American troops would be able to leave in the not-too-remote future. The promise of withdrawel precluded a policy of occupation of the traditional colonial sort, in which a great power simply imposes its will on a small one indefinitely.” WarFactsWould BeAblePresidentPolicyKeysPromiseBuiltCampaignsTraditionalOccupationVietnamTroopsGreat PowerAmerican Troops Author:Jonathan Schell
“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
“We need a president that is sitting down, getting Americans to work, getting this economy going. That is the single most important thing that the president of the United States does, is create a climate where job creators know that they're going to be able to risk their capital and have a chance to have a return on the investment. And it's never too late to start that.” KnowsNeedsDoeImportantStatesAbleJobsPresidentChanceUnitedUnited StatesEconomyRiskReturnLateSittingImportant ThingsInvestmentClimateCreatorToo LateSitting DownNever Too LateJob Creators Author:Rick Perry
“I was able to do something that people cant do these days, which is to have quality time with the guys who were trying to be president and a number of them who got the job.” PeopleTryingAbleJobsGuyPresidentNumbersQualityThese DaysCantQuality Time Author:Robert Scheer
“While I do not think it was so intended I have always been of the opinion that this turned out to be much the best for me. I had no national experience. What I have ever been able to do has been the result of first learning how to do it. I am not gifted with intuition. I need not only hard work but experience to be ready to solve problems. The Presidents who have gone to Washington without first having held some national office have been at great disadvantage.” ThinkingNeedsFirstsHas BeensHardProblemAblePoliticsPresidentResultsOpinionGoneReadyHard WorkOfficeIntuitionSolveGiftedDisadvantages Author:Calvin Coolidge
“President Obama's been reaching out to Iran, reaching out to Cuba, reaching out to Latin America. The only place he can't seem to be able to reach out to: Texas. ... Despite Governor Rick Perry talking about how Texas could secede from the Union if it wanted to, 75 per cent of the people who live there want to stay in the United States. Of course they want to stay. I mean, after spending all that time and effort sneaking across the border to get here, why would they want to leave?” PeopleIfsWantMeanStatesSeemsAbleWantedAmericaCoursesPresidentUnitedEffortTalkingUnited StatesUnionsSpendingDespiteBordersReachingIranLatinTexasPresident ObamaReach OutCentsGovernorsCubaLatin America Author:Jay Leno
“President Bush said that our kids must be taught how to read. He said if his aides never learned to read, they'd never be able to tell him what's in the newspapers every day.” IfsSaidKidsAblePresidentTaughtNewspapersPresident Bush Author:Jay Leno
“I heard this today and I thought this was fascinating and interesting. President Bush has two daughters, two beautiful daughters, and they may work on their father's presidential campaign after they get out of college and I thought, well, that's a pretty good move because in this economy, they won't be able to find real jobs.” WellsMayTwoRealTodayAbleJobsBeautifulMovingFatherPresidentInterestingEconomyHeardCollegeDaughterCampaignsPresidentialFascinatingPresident BushReal JobsPresidential CampaignTwo DaughtersBeautiful Daughter Author:David Letterman
“No president in history has been more vilified or was more vilivied during the time he was President than Lincoln. Those who knew him, his secretaries, have written that he was deeply hurt by what was said about him and drawn about him, but on the other hand, Lincoln had the great strength of character never to display it, always able to stand tall and strong and firm no matter how harsh or unfair the criticism might be. These elements of greatness, of course, inspire us all today.” Has BeensSaidMatterCharacterHandsMightTodayAbleCoursesStrongPresidentHurtWrittenStrengthGreatnessInspireElementsCriticismFirmTallDisplayUnfairSecretaryHarshStrength Of CharacterDeeply Hurt Author:Richard M. Nixon
“Children, as well as grown-ups, in their individual, glorified, drudgery-proof homes of Labrador, the tropics, the Orient, or where you will, to which they can pass with pleasure and expedition by means of ever-improving transportation, will be able to tune in their television and radio to the moving picture lecture of, let us say, President Lowell of Harvard; the professor of Mathematics of Oxford; of the doctor of Indian antiquities of Delhi, etc.” WellsMeanChildrenHomeAbleMovingIndividualPresidentPleasureTelevisionDoctorsMathematicsRadioProofIndianEtcTunesProfessorsImprovingLecturesHarvardTransportationAntiquityOxfordDrudgeryExpeditionsDelhiTropicsLabradorsTelevision And Radio Author:R. Buckminster Fuller
“I truly feel sorry to all the fans of the games I have made. Ninja Gaiden 2, which will launch on the 3rd of June will be the last Ninja Gaiden I will create. I will also never be able to make Dead or Alive 5. I regret the circumstances that have forced me to leave Tecmo, where I had worked for so many years, and I regret the disappointment this will cause my fans. However, I can no longer continue to work with President Yoshimi Yasuda, a man who chooses not to honor promises even when he is able to do so. I truly hope that nothing like this happens again in the future.” MenFeelsYearsMadeI CanHappensAbleLastsGamesCausesPresidentAliveFansRegretHonorCircumstancesPromiseSorryDisappointmentJuneI RegretNinja Author:Tomonobu Itagaki
“I was appointed U.S. attorney by President [George] Bush on September 10th, 2001, and the world changed enormously the next day, and that happened in my state.I will make no apologies, ever, for protecting the lives and the safety of the American people. We have to give more tools to our folks to be able to do that, not fewer, and then trust those people and oversee them to do it the right way.” PeopleWorldWayGivingStatesAbleNextPresidentHappenedChangedToolsSafetyFolksFewerApologySeptemberRight WayNext DayAttorney Author:Chris Christie
“I think the president can set a tone and say we're not divided by gender, age, race. We're all Americans and want the same things. We want the best things for our kids. We want the rules to be fair. If they work hard, get a great education, they should be able to join the middle class.” IfsThinkingWantShouldHardKidsAgeAblePresidentRaceClassMiddleHard WorkFairsGenderBest ThingsToneMiddle ClassDividedGreat Education Author:Bobby Jindal
“It doesn't actually make any difference whether the President is Republican or Democrat. The genius of the American ruling class is that it has been able to make the people think that they have had something to do with the electing of presidents for 200 years when they've had absolutely nothing to say about the candidates or the policies or the way the country is run.” PeopleThinkingWayYearsHas BeensCountryRunningAblePresidentDifferencesClassPolicyGeniusRepublicanDemocratCandidatesRulingAbsolutely Nothing Author:Gore Vidal
“I come out of the environment of the Deep South, where I had seen the millstone of racial discrimination weighting down my people, both the black people and the white people; and I had seen the enormous progress that we were able to make after we removed the legal restraints of a two-class society, with the whites superior and blacks inferior. So I was very convinced before I became President that basic human rights, equality of opportunity, the end of abuse by governments of their people, was a basic principle on which the United States should be an acknowledged champion.” PeopleShouldHumansTwoEndsStatesGovernmentAbleOpportunityBlackPresidentWhiteUnitedClassPrinciplesUnited StatesEnvironmentRightsProgressAbuseSouthHuman RightsConvincedEnormousDiscriminationSuperiorsChampionBlack PeopleInferiorsRestraintBasic PrinciplesRacial DiscriminationEquality Of OpportunityBasic Human Rights Author:Jimmy Carter
“Obama's got a great sense of humor, but mainly he has a great thinking presence, which is uncommon. It's hard to imagine being able to do, think over answers and deliver them on television. If I were president I would constantly be spluttering.” IfsThinkingHardAblePresidentAnswersImagineTelevisionSense Of HumorUncommon Author:Roy Blount, Jr.
“One day,I might be able to tell my grandkids I interviewed the last president of the United States.” StatesMightAbleLastsPresidentUnitedUnited StatesOne DayGrandkids Author:Stephen Colbert
“Suffering will always be there. You'll always have the poor. You have to own your own progress. It is true that because of the economy and the fear factor the president [Barack Obama] is able to execute a lot of promises that it would be difficult to deliver it not for the fear factor. It's funny. He's delivering on what he promised and we call it fear.” Would BeAbleSufferingDifficultPresidentPoorEconomyProgressPromiseFactorsBarackDeliveringPresident Barack Obama Author:Russell Simmons
“My biggest problem with President Bush is when we were in kindergarten together, he broke my favorite red crayon! Since that moment, my psychiatrist told me that I haven't been able to move forward as a person. Severely hindering the chances of me being able to mature any since that tragic day. For that, I'll never forgive him.” PersonsMomentsProblemAbleTogetherMovingPresidentChanceHavensRedForgivingMy FavoriteMoving ForwardBrokeTragicThat MomentMaturePresident BushPsychiatristKindergartenCrayonNever Forgive Author:Carolyn Parrish