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Letter "P" » presidency
«All Presidents start out to run a crusade but after a couple of years they find they are running something less heroic and much more intractable: namely the presidency. The people are well cured by then of election fever, during which they think they are choosing Moses. In the third year, they look on the man as a sinner and a bumble and begin to poke around for rumors of another Messiah.»
Author: Alistair Cooke
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«Anybody who wants the presidency so much that he'll spend two years organizing and campaigning for it is not to be trusted with the office.»
«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.»
«As to the presidency, the two happiest days of my life were those of my entrance upon the office and my surrender of it.»
«Beguiled by George S. Bush's easy smile and casual indifference to the details, we are on the brink of electing him to office. This isn't choosing a president, it's casting the lead in a sitcom about the presidency.»
Author: Roger Ebert
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Lecturer,
Writer)
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«I seek the presidency with no illusions»
«If the Soviet empire still existed, I'd be terrified. The fact is, we can afford a fairly ignorant presidency now.»
«I am often troubled as I try hard here to create a new sense of common purpose. . . . And I have felt in the last several months during my presidency that we oftentimes get so caught up in the battle of the moment, the heat of the moment -- how are you going to answer this charge, and make that change, or deal with this difficulty -- that sometimes we forget that we are all in this because we are seeking a good that helps all Americans.»
«I have never been a quitter. To leave office before my term is completed is opposed to every instinct in my body. But as president I must put the interests of America first Therefore, I shall resign the presidency effective at noon tomorrow.»
«I'm very, very concerned about the Bush presidency. I'm worried about the kinds of cuts in domestic programs that mean something to a lot of people, including members of my family, who depend on certain things from the government.»