“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
“Well, I was always a bit of a political junkie. Even as a kid I would read biographies of presidents and of civil rights leaders like Martin Luther King and Frederick Douglass and Booker T. Washington.” WellsKidsPoliticalBitsPresidentLeaderRightsKingsCivil RightsBiographiesLutherJunkieCivil Rights Leaders Author:John Legend
“Now I am not unpatriotic, and I want to do my bit, so I hereby offer my services to my President, my country and my friends to do anything, outside of serving on a commission, that I can in this great movement. But you will have to give me some idea of where "confidence" is. And just who you want it restored to.” WantGivingI CanIdeasCountryBitsPresidentBusinessMovementOffersMy FriendsGive MeServingUnpatriotic Book:Will Rogers' Daily Telegrams: The Coolidge years, 1926-1929 Source: Will Rogers' Daily Telegrams: The Coolidge years, 1926-1929
“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
“People always got the image I was an anti-Christ or antireligion. I'm not. I'm a most religious fellow. I was brought up a Christian and I only now understand some of the things that Christ was saying in those parables. Because people got hooked on the teacher and missed the message. All this bit about electing a President. We pick our own daddy out of a dog pound of daddies.” PeopleChristianPoliticalReligionBitsPresidentChristReligiousTeacherDogMessagesPicksFellowsPoundsDaddyHookedParablesAnti Christ Author:John Lennon
“I think I understand the Constitution a little bit because in 1971 we went off the gold standard under President Nixon into the Federal Reserve notes because we were a worldwide currency.” ThinkingLittlesBitsPresidentLittle BitStandardsGoldConstitutionNotesCurrencyReservesFederal ReserveGold StandardPresident Nixon Author:Bill O'Reilly
“President Bush bet his presidency-and America's world leadership-on the war in Iraq. Tragically, it looks as though he bit off more than the American people were willing to chew.” PeopleWorldLooksWarAmericaBitsPresidentWillingIraqPresidencyPresident BushWorld Leader Author:Mort Kondracke
“[on debates] Accomplished a bit more for Bush than for Gore only because there were more question marks for Bush. I think he established that he possesses at least the minimum qualifications for being president.” ThinkingBitsPresidentMarkAccomplishedMinimumGoreQualificationsQuestion Mark Author:Stuart Rothenberg
“The president is the cube of ice one places in the pot of a houseplant, providing a steady amount of nourishment over the course of a hot day. A good description of the job and also a fantastic bit of practical household advice.” JobsCoursesBitsPresidentAdviceAmountHotPracticalsIceFantasticDescriptionPotSteadyHouseholdProvidingNourishmentCubesHot Days Author:Abraham Lincoln
“I know I made plenty of mistakes in my tenure. But one of the things that you learn is to be very careful and to protect yourself down the road a little bit, which is to say you've got to think ahead and think where is the story going to go? What are all the possible outcomes? And how do I protect the president from unexpected twists and turns in the road?” ThinkingKnowsLittlesMadeStoriesTurnsBitsPresidentMistakeProtectLittle BitCarefulPlentyOutcomesUnexpectedTwistsDown The RoadTenureProtect YourselfTwists And TurnsTurns In The Road Author:Dee Dee Myers
“Oh yeah, I'm the president of the lucky club. There are so many talented people who don't work. And the crop of young actors I'm surrounded by is incredible. When you have people like that around you it amps you up a little bit. Also, Emile Hirsch and Joseph Gordon-Levitt, or guys like Ryan Gosling. It's a really good crowd and I feel I'm coming up at a good time. But equally, there's a lot of good young actors who don't get to work who are more talented than I. I'm just lucky.” PeopleFeelsLittlesYoungGuyActorsBitsPresidentLuckyLittle BitYeahIncrediblesCrowdsClubsGood TimesCropsYoung Actors Author:Shia LaBeouf