“I want to live and work in Chicago for the rest of my life. You know when you were growing up and you wanted to become president? What I want now is to be mayor of this damned town in ten years.” KnowsWantYearsWantedPresidentGrowing UpGrowingTenTownsChicagoMayors Author:William Petersen
“The small town is passing. It was the incubator that hatched all our big men, and that's why we haven't got as many big men today as we used to have. Take every small-town-raised leader out of business and you would have nobody left running it but vice-presidents.” MenBigsRunningTodayUsedLeftPresidentBusinessLeaderHavensTownsRaisedVicesPassingPassingsSmall TownVice PresidentPassing It Author:Will Rogers
“I think to close half of Magic Kingdom for the purpose of a White House invitation town hall meeting on a phony main street on behalf of a phony president just strikes me as weird.” ThinkingPurposeHousePresidentWhiteHalfMagicStreetsTownsMeetingsStrikesKingdomsHallsWhite HouseBehalfInvitationsPhonyMain StreetMagic Kingdom Author:Newt Gingrich
“I grew up in a steel town of Western Pennsylvania, outside of Pittsburgh, and when I announced for president, I announced from the factory floor. When I talk about making America the number one manufacturer again in the world, it's not just talk. When I talk about having the opportunity for people to rise again, it's not just because it polls well.” PeopleWorldWellsAmericaOpportunityPresidentNumbersGrewGrew UpTownsWesternFactoriesSteelPollsPennsylvaniaPittsburgh Author:Rick Santorum
“While President Bush was out of town Hillary Clinton stopped by the White House on Friday for an important meeting with her decorator.” ImportantHousePresidentWhiteTownsMeetingsClintonWhite HouseFridayPresident BushDecorators Author:Jay Leno
“In my class was an Annapolis graduate, several engineers, and most recent president of the University of Alabama.These were all small-town people who had good values. The families were tight. The schools reaffirmed the families and reaffirmed the church values that you were taught. I guess it was just one of those swell times to be a part of.” PeopleSchoolValuesPresidentChurchClassTaughtTownsUniversityJust OneGraduatesEngineersSmall TownAlabamaGood ValuesAnnapolis Author:Jeff Sessions
“The elections have a different platform, the town hall is the platform for it. But the other question behind all this is should I run for president?” ShouldDifferentRunningPresidentBehindsTownsElectionHallsPlatformsShould I Author:Werner Herzog
“We spend less time with each other now than we did during the presidency. When you're president, you're usually out and back in the same day - at least I was. I just came from a trip to the Middle East last week, where I was gone for five nights, and when I left, Laura [Bush] was out of town.” LastsNightLeftPresidentGoneFiveWeekMiddleTownsEastMiddle EastPresidencyLaura Author:George W. Bush
“Now Barack Obama, who campaigned for transparency, is the President defending secret negotiations on new trade agreements that are largely being written by corporate lawyers and lobbyists. He would give corporations the key to the treasury while he gets the authority to fast track another hammering of working people and the environment. Yet the only people who get a real tongue-lashing from this President's White House are progressives around town who dare to call him on the carpet for abandoning his promises.” PeopleGivingRealHousePresidentWhiteSecretEnvironmentWrittenKeysPromiseAuthorityTownsTradeTrackDareTongueLawyerBarackCorporateCorporationsAgreementWhite HouseNegotiationCarpetTransparencyTreasuryLobbyistsTrade Agreements Author:Bill Moyers
“If you`re in a Republican district that is leery of President [Donald] Trump,then, you might feel a little bit more exposed.Of course, if you`re in a swing district, then this town hall tension has to worry you which is why we haven`t seen many Republicans from swing districts actually hold these kinds of town halls.” IfsFeelsKindLittlesMightCoursesBitsPresidentWorryHavensTrumpRepublicanLittle BitTownsTensionHallsExposedSwings Author:Chuck Todd
“The White House is dismissing these fiery town halls as the result of professional protesters. Well, that`s exactly how President [Barack] Obama team`s and Democrats dismissed the 2009 town halls and Tea Party protests.” WellsHousePresidentWhiteResultsPartyTeamTownsDemocratBarackTeaProtestHallsWhite HouseTea PartyPresident Barack ObamaFiery Author:Chuck Todd
“No president stays in town. They all decamp. They all leave. They go back somewhere. But Obama is gonna stay there, and there's one reason why. He's not going to sit quietly by... Let's say there's a Republican elected president. He's not gonna sit quietly by and let whatever he thinks he's accomplished be unraveled. He's gonna be speaking up often about what he disagrees with, and he knows he's gonna have the media in his back pocket.” ThinkingKnowsReasonPresidentMediaRepublicanTownsReason WhyAccomplishedPocketsDisagreeSpeaking Up Author:Rush Limbaugh
“President Johnson and I have a lot in common. We were both born in small towns and we're both fortunate in the fact that we think we married above ourselves.” ThinkingFactsPresidentBornCommonMarriedTownsFortunateSmall TownJohnsonPresident Johnson Author:Richard M. Nixon
“This President takes his inspiration from the capitals of Europe; we look to the cities and small towns of America. This President puts his faith in government. We put our faith in the American people.” PeopleLooksInspirationGovernmentAmericaPresidentCitiesEuropeTownsSmall Town Author:Mitt Romney
“When a fissure off the California coast started pumping and dumping oil on the nearby towns and beaches, everybody started dumping on Union Oil. Matters weren't helped one iota by a manufactured quotation attributed to Union's president, Fred Hartley, alleging his amazement at the publicity for the loss of a few birds.... Fred Hartley never said what the press reported, as the transcript and the Senate committee members definitely established. But I don't suppose the truth will ever catch up with the more colorful falsehood.” SaidMatterPresidentNatureLossMembersBirdTownsPressesUnionsOilBeachCaliforniaSenateFalsehoodCommitteesQuotationsCoastPublicityColorfulAmazementCalifornia Coast Author:Malcolm Forbes
“High School: Oh, man. This is where boys and girls go from tweens to teens and become complicated and cruel. Girls play sick mind games; boys try to pull each other's penises off and throw them in the bushes. If you can, buy the most expensive jeans in a two-hundred-mile radius of your town and wear them on your first day. If anyone asks how you could afford them say that your father is the president of Ashton Kutcher. When they are like, 'Ashton Kutcher has a president?' answer, 'Yes.' Everyone will be in awe of you and you won't have to go through a lot of pain and cat fights.” IfsMenTryingMindFirstsTwoPlaySchoolPainGirlFightingAsksFatherGamesPresidentAnswersBoysHundredHigh SchoolCatSickTownsComplicatedMilesExpensiveAweTeensJeansBoy And GirlOur TownMind GamesRadiusTweens Author:Eugene Mirman
“Presidents and presidential assassins are like Las Vegas and Salt Lake City. Even though one city is all about sin and the other is all about salvation, they are identical, one-dimensional company towns built up by the sheer will of true believers.” PresidentSinCitiesCompanyBuiltTownsSalvationBelieverPresidentialLakesSaltSheerVegasIdenticalLas VegasAssassinsTrue BelieverSalt Lake City Book:Assassination Vacation Source: Assassination Vacation
“I call upon all of you to wage a second American nonviolent revolution, to use civil disobedience, and to demand that this president leave town, to get up, to put the Quran down, to get up off his knees, and to figuratively come out with his hands up.” UseHandsPresidentRevolutionDemandTownsGet UpKneesDisobedienceQuranCivil DisobedienceHands Up Author:Larry Klayman
“I have come to the conclusion that the major part of the president is to increase the gate receipts of expositions and fairs and bring tourists to town.” PresidentMajorsFairsIncreaseTownsConclusionPresidentialGatesTouristsReceipts Author:William Howard Taft