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"If anyone is crazy enough to want to kill a president of the United States, he can do it. All he must be prepared to do is give his life for the president's." »John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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"I'm the only American alive or dead who presided unhappily over the removal of a vice president and a president." »Alexander Meigs Haig
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"I wish everybody would have to have an electric thing implanted in our heads that gave us a shock whenever we did something to disobey the president. Then somehow I get myself elected president." »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
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"To announce that there must be no criticism of the president, or that we are to stand by the president, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public." »Theodore Roosevelt
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"At least she's the president of something, which is more than I can say. (on his wife Elizabeth, president of the American Red Cross)" »Robert Joseph Bob Dole
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"Who can tell who will be the president a year from now? -- John F. Kennedy, speaking to the president of Harvard about why he did not want to delay signing documents relating to a future JFK Presidential Library, 2 October 1963." »John F. Kennedy, "A Thousand Days," by Arthur Schlesinger Jr. [1965]
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"When you meet the president, you ask yourself, How did it ever occur to anybody that he should be governor much less president" »Henry Kissinger
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"The man with the best job in the country is the Vice president. All he has to do is get up every morning and say, 'How's the President'" »Will Rogers
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"Like president Reagan, president Bush has not shied from calling evil by its name or declaring his intention to defeat its latest incarnation, terrorism, just as free men and women of all political persuasions, here and abroad, defeated fascism and communism before." »Donald Rumsfeld, Ronald Reagan Library and Museum, October 10, 2003
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"I began by telling the president that there was a cancer growing on the presidency and that if the cancer was not removed ... the president himself would be killed by it." »John Dean
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"Democracy means that anyone can grow up to be president, and anyone who doesn't grow up can be vice president." »Johnny Carson
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"As president Nixon says, presidents can do almost anything, and president Nixon has done many things that nobody would have thought of doing." »Golda Meir
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"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." »Richard Nixon
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"I had rather be right than be president." »Henry Clay
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"The thought of being president frightens me. I do not think I want the job." »Ronald Reagan
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"The president can bomb anybody he likes." »Richard Nixon, Nixon
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"When the president does it, that means it is not illegal." »Richard Milhous Nixon
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"When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become president. Now I'm beginning to believe it." »Clarence Darrow
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"Oh, that lovely title, ex-president." »Dwight D Eisenhower
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"In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take." »Adlai Ewing Stevenson
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"The thought of being president frightens me and I do not think I want the job." »Ronald Reagan in 1973
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"The president has kept all of the promises he intended to keep." »George Stephanopolous
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"We need a president who's fluent in at least one language." »Buck Henry
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"I am not sure I am willing to do what it takes to become president of the United States" »Jack Kemp, Seattle, Washington, Winter 1996/97 lecture series, when asked if he would run for president in 2000
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"Being president is like being a jackass in a hailstorm. There's nothing to do but to stand there and take it." »Lyndon B. Johnson
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"Pride the first peer and president of hell." »Daniel Defoe
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"Had I been chosen president again, I am certain I could not have lived another year." »John Adams
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"When you're a lawyer, you expect your client to lie to you, but not when he is the president." »Dick Houser
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"I think the American public wants a solemn ass as a president, and I think I'll go along with them." »Calvin Coolidge
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"I hereby resign this office of president of the United States." »Richard Milhous Nixon
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