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• Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln and Roosevelt faced adversities that, in their times, seemed impregnable. Great presidents overcome great odds.

  Ron Fournier

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• In my opinion governors don’t make the best presidents. That’s my opinion and it’s because they don’t have the foreign policy experience and they have to learn on the job.

  Kay Bailey Hutchison

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• I think you’ll see if you look at ‘Up’, we’ve focused a lot on labor (and the forces trying to keep labor down) and have featured everything from Wal Mart workers, to on-the-ground organizers, to union presidents to restaurant workers sitting at the table sharing their experience and expertise.

  Chris Hayes

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• Of course, presidents are always blamed or rewarded for the state of the economy.

  James Surowiecki

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• I am 73 years old. I’ve seen everything. I’ve met the kings, the queens, the presidents, I’ve been around the world. I have one thing that I would like to do: to try to reach peace.

  Ariel Sharon

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• Presidents with strong nerves are decisive. They don’t balk at unpopular decisions. They are willing to make people angry. Bush had strong nerves. Clinton, who passed up a chance to eliminate Osama bin Laden, did not. Obama is a people pleaser, a trait not normally associated with nerves of steel.

  Fred Barnes

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• I just didn’t want to get out there anymore; I didn’t want to get back into what I call ‘the swamp.’ And the other reason why is I don’t think it’s good for the presidency for a former president to be opining about his successor. President Obama’s got plenty of critics – and I’m just not gonna be one.

  George W. Bush

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• Bill Clinton was in the line of great progressive presidents who faced the realities in his own time and applied innovative solutions to problems.

  Sidney Blumenthal

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• Presidents do not go off on leave without telling the country.

  Chinua Achebe

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• I’ve played three presidents, three saints and two geniuses – and that’s probably enough for any man.

  Charlton Heston

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• Presidents come and go, but the Supreme Court goes on forever.

  William Howard Taft

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• I head a nation of a million presidents.

  Chaim Weizmann

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• American presidents always avoid shaking hands with brutal dictators, except when it’s advantageous to do so.

  Elizabeth A. Sherman

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• I think that presidents don’t give up power that has accrued to them by the precedent of previous presidents. Even when they say they would like to, I think once they get there they don’t give it up.

  Rachel Maddow

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• I started the nuclear medicine laboratory at UW Hospitals in 1959 and trained radiology residents in the field. It was 1965 before they found a trained MD (doctor) to take over my role.

  John Cameron

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• Few men in our history have ever obtained the Presidency by planning to obtain it.

  James A. Garfield

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• I haven’t eaten at a McDonald’s since I became President.

  William J. Bennett

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• Ohio claims they are due a president as they haven’t had one since Taft. Look at the United States, they have not had one since Lincoln.

  Will Rogers

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• We draw our Presidents from the people. It is a wholesome thing for them to return to the people. I came from them. I wish to be one of them again.

  Calvin Coolidge

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• The phone company handles 84 billion calls a year, everything from kings, queens, and presidents to the scum of the earth.

  Lily Tomlin

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