“Bill Clinton is the greatest president of the 20th century because I played touch football with him.” PresidentCenturyFootballBillsClinton20th CenturyTouch Football Author:Al Franken
“With his decision to use force against the violent extremists of the Islamic State, President Obama ... is stepping once again - and with understandably great reluctance - into the chaos of an entire civilization that has broken down. Arab civilization, such as we knew it, is all but gone. The Arab world today is more violent, unstable, fragmented and driven by extremism - the extremism of the rulers and those in opposition-than at any time since the collapse of the Ottoman Empire a century ago.” WorldStatesUseTodayForcePresidentDecisionGoneCenturyBrokenCivilizationChaosDrivenViolentIslamicOppositionEmpiresPresident ObamaCollapseRulersExtremismWorld TodayExtremistUnstableFragmentedReluctanceArab WorldBroken DownIslamic StateOttomansOttoman Empire Author:Hisham Melhem
“George Bush is by American standards rabidly Upper Class - Eastern, Socially Attractive, WASP, 19th-century money, several generations of Andover and Yale (and, while we're at it, his father, George H. W. 'Poppy' Bush, was a former president and his grandfather was the Nazis' U.S. banker in the 1930s).” FatherPresidentClassGenerationsCenturyStandardsFormerAttractiveGrandfatherNaziEasternBankers19th Century1930sYaleUpper ClassPoppiesWasps Author:Peter York
“You don't like a particular policy or a particular president? Then argue for your position. Go out there and win an election. Push to change it. But don't break it. Don't break what our predecessors spent over two centuries building. That's not being faithful to what this country's about.” TwoCountryWinningPresidentBreakCenturyPolicyPositionBuildingParticularElectionArguingFaithfulPredecessorsBeing Faithful Author:Barack Obama
“I believe that this Republic will endure for many centuries. If so there will doubtless be among its Presidents Protestants and Catholics, and very probably at some time, Jews. I have consistently tried while President to act in relation to my fellow Americans of Catholic faith as I hope that any future President who happens to be Catholic will act towards his fellow Americans of Protestant faith. Had I followed any other course I should have felt that I was unfit to represent the American people.” PeopleIfsShouldBelieveHappensCoursesI BelieveFeltPresidentAtheismCenturyShould HaveRelationCatholicFellowsEndureJewPositive AtheismRepublicConsistentlyProtestantsCatholic Faith Book:Letters of Theodore Roosevelt: The big stick, 1905-1909 Source: Letters of Theodore Roosevelt: The big stick, 1905-1909
“President Bush has shown great leadership. He has said that the 21st century will not be ruled or dictated by terrorists, dictators, and murderers. He is absolutely right. God bless him for his resolve.” SaidPresidentLeadershipCenturyTerroristResolveBlessDictator21st CenturyMurdererPresident BushGod BlessGreat Leadership Author:Lindsey Graham
“Latin America is very fond of the word "hope." We like to be called the "continent of hope." Candidates for deputy, senator, president, call themselves "candidates of hope." This hope is really something like a promise of heaven, an IOU whose payment is always being put off. It is put off until the next legislative campaign, until next year, until the next century.” YearsAmericaNextHeavenPresidentCenturyPromiseCampaignsCandidatesLatinContinentsSenatorsPaymentNext YearLatin AmericaDeputies Book:Memoirs Source: Memoirs
“The question is what will Mitt Romney do as president if his policy is simply to be hands off and let the government be made so small it can be drowned in a bathtub. In the 21st century global economy, no state alone has the ability to compete against China.” IfsMadeStatesHandsGovernmentPresidentAbilityEconomyCenturyPolicyChina21st CenturyRomneyGlobal EconomyBathtubs Author:Jennifer Granholm
“As someone who has more than a passing acquaintance with most of the 20th century presidents, I have often thought that their accomplishments have little staying power in shaping popular views of their leadership.” LittlesPresidentViewsCenturyPassingPassingsAccomplishmentStaying20th CenturyAcquaintanceStaying Power Author:Robert Dallek
“In the past, in order to continue as a candidate, a serious candidate, you had to be in the top three finishes in Iowa. You had to be in the top two out of New Hampshire. All our presidents elected in the past half-century finished either first or second in New Hampshire and in the top three in Iowa. That changed with the Citizens United, when we gave unlimited amounts of money.” FirstsTwoPastOrderThreePresidentUnitedHalfCenturyChangedSeriousAmountCitizensFinishedCandidatesUnlimitedIowaHampshireNew HampshireCitizens United Author:Mark Shields
“President Bush said that American workers will need new skills to get the new jobs in the 21st century. Some of the skills they're going to need are Spanish, Chinese, Korean, because that's where the jobs went. Who better than Bush as an example of what can happen when you take a job without any training.” NeedsSaidHappensJobsPresidentCenturyExampleSkillsTrainingWorkersChinese21st CenturyPresident BushKoreanNew JobAmerican WorkersNew Skills Author:Jay Leno
“A President Roosevelt comes only once in a century. I believe God knew and does know of the need of the world at this moment. I don't believe President Roosevelt is an accident in time, or that it is an accident that he is President for a third time. I believe that Franklin D. Roosevelt truly is the voice of liberty in the world.” KnowsWorldNeedsBelieveDoeMomentsI BelievePresidentVoiceLibertyDestinyCenturyGreatnessThirdsDon't BelieveAccidentsBelieve In GodFranklinThird TimePresident Roosevelt Author:Lyndon B. Johnson
“Edgar Wayburn has worked to preserve the most breath-taking examples of the American landscape. In fact, over the course of more than a half-century, both as President of the Sierra Club and as a private citizen, he has saved more of our wilderness than any person alive.” PersonsFactsCoursesPresidentHalfAliveCenturyExampleCitizensBreathsClubsSavedLandscapePreservesWildernessSierraAmerican Landscape Author:William J. Clinton
“Truman left in the middle of an unpopular war, a war of choice. Truman didn't have to go into South Korea. And he was reviled and ridiculed for the stalemate that resulted. Now, he's seen as one of the great presidents of the 20th century.” WarChoicesLeftPresidentMiddleCenturySouth20th CenturyKoreaTrumanSouth KoreaGreat PresidentsStalemate Author:Charles Krauthammer