“I was chef to the French Presidents between '56 and '59, finished with de Gaulle, and during de Gaulle I remember serving Eisenhower, Nehru, Tito, Macmillan; those were the heads of state at the time. I never saw anyone. No one would ever, ever, ever come to the kitchen. You couldn't even see them.” StatesRememberPresidentSawsFinishedKitchenServingChefHead Of StateNehruTito Author:Jacques Pepin
“We saw the president of the United States engage American troops in a fourth conflict in a foreign land. This is historic.” StatesPresidentUnitedUnited StatesSawsLandConflictFourthTroopsHistoricForeign LandsAmerican Troops Author:Michele Bachmann
“The things we saw happen in the last four years of the Obama administration would all, or many of them, go away under a President Gingrich. It would be a huge setback.” YearsHappensWould BeLastsPresidentSawsFourHugeAdministrationGoing AwayFour YearsSetback Author:Candace Gingrich-Jones
“There's a screen direction in the script for the pilot where it says, 'Jim Harper, mid-20s, enters,' and it said something to the effect of: 'He's confident without being cocky. He has no idea that he could be considered attractive, because he saw All The President's Men when he was thirteen and never looked up.' It was just a great little gem of a screen direction, and I felt immediately from just that, that I had a good idea of how to play this guy.” MenLittlesSaidIdeasPlayGuyFeltPresidentSawsEffectsScriptsScreensNo IdeaAttractiveGood IdeasPilotsThis GuyThirteenGemsCockyHarperBeing Cocky Author:John Gallagher, Jr.
“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 saw my job [as president] as to try to move the world from an unstable condition of interdependence toward more integrated cooperative world community. Therefore, my approach was to cooperate wherever possible and to build institutions of cooperation, an expanded NATO, the World Trade Organization, the Summit of the Americas, the Asian Pacific Leaders, all those, the coalition to fight in Bosnia and Kosovo, to cooperate wherever possible but to act alone if we had to.” IfsWorldTryingJobsMovingFightingPresidentCommunityLeaderSawsConditionsApproachOrganizationInstitutionsTradeCooperationAsianSummitIntegratedPacificCoalitionsUnstableNatoInterdependenceCooperativesWorld TradeBosniaKosovoWorld Trade Organization Author:William J. Clinton
“As I have heard Bush say, only a wartime president is likely to achieve greatness, in part because the epochal upheavals of war provide the opportunity for transformative change of the kind Bush hoped to achieve. In Iraq, Bush saw his opportunity to create a legacy of greatness.” KindWarOpportunityPresidentSawsHeardAchieveGreatnessIraqLegacyUpheavalWartimeAchieve Greatness Book:What Happened: Inside the Bush White House and Washington's Culture of Deception Source: What Happened: Inside the Bush White House and Washington's Culture of Deception
“President Obama and Vladimir Putin are both in China attending the same economic summit. Obama saw Putin and said, 'After those midterms, it's nice to finally see a friendly face.'” SaidFacesPresidentSawsNiceEconomicChinaFriendlyPresident ObamaSummitPutinAttendingMidtermsFriendly Faces Author:Conan O'Brien
“I saw that on Small Business Saturday, the president went shopping at a bookstore and bought 17 books, including "The Laughing Monsters," "Being Mortal," and "Heart of Darkness." Or as the cashier put it, "You OK, man? Maybe a little 'Chicken Soup for the Presidential Soul?'” MenHeartLittlesBookSoulPresidentDarknessLaughingSawsIncludingMonstersMortalsPresidentialChickensShoppingSaturdaySoupSmall BusinessBookstoresHeart Of DarknessChicken SoupCashiers Author:Jimmy Fallon
“There was a very small crowd - minuscule compared to the crowd that he gathered later - at a private home in Los Angeles. And we were standing on the back patio, waiting for him. And he came through the house, saw me and immediately put his hand up in the Vulcan gesture. He said, 'They told me you were here.' We had a wonderful, brief conversation and I said, 'It would be logical if you would become president.'” IfsSaidHomeHandsWould BeHouseWaitingPresidentSawsWonderfulConversationStandingCrowdsLogicalLos AngelesGesturesHands Up Author:Leonard Nimoy
“You saw the president yesterday. I thought he was very forward-leaning, as they say in diplomatic nuanced circles.” HumorPoliticalPresidentSawsYesterdayCirclesDiplomaticPolitical Humor Author:George W. Bush
“So, Wesley Clark is running for president. Pretty amazing guy. Four star general, first in his class at West Point, supreme commander of NATO, saw combat in Vietnam, won the bronze star, silver star, the purple heart for being wounded in battle. See, I'm no political expert, but that sounds pretty good next to choking on a pretzel, falling off a scooter and dropping the dog.” FirstsHeartRunningPoliticalGuyFallNextStarsSoundPresidentClassSawsFourDogBattleWestSupremeExpertsSilverCombatVietnamWoundedPurpleDroppingCommandersChokeNatoBronzeFalling OffPretzelsWest PointScootersPurple Heart Author:Jay Leno
“The president, who finds so much to complain about in other areas of the world, apparently saw nothing wrong in recognizing a Communist regime that has killed more people in its short history of control over the teeming millions of that great country than any other collection of dictators or tyrants in the history of the world.” PeopleWorldWarCountryPresidentMillionsSawsColdAreasComplainingCollectionsCommunistTyrantsRegimesDictatorCold WarRecognizingWorld HistoryGreat Country Author:Barry Goldwater
“When I left Springfield [to become President] I asked the people to pray for me. I was not a Christian. When I buried my son, the severest trial of my life, I was not a Christian. But when I went to Gettysburg and saw the graves of thousands of our soldiers, I then and there consecrated myself to Christ.” PeopleChristianReligionLeftPresidentChristSawsSonPrayingSoldierGravesTrialsMy SonBuriedGettysburgPray For Me Author:Abraham Lincoln
“In the past, the U.S. has shown its capacity to reinvent its gifts for leadership. During the 1970s, in the aftermath of the Nixon abdication and the Ford and Carter presidencies, the whole nation peered into the abyss, was horrified by what it saw and elected Ronald Reagan as president, which began a national resurgence.” WholePastNationsPresidentSawsCapacityPresidencyAbyssCarterAftermathResurgenceAbdication Author:Paul Johnson