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Republican presidents talk about freedom. Democratic presidents talk about equality.
I'm of the minority opinion that presidents should be given more power for less time.
When the going gets tough in Washington, presidents appoint 'blue ribbon' commissions.
I almost laughed about the Machiavellian plans of the presidents of the United States.
Few American presidents have been unhappier or lonelier in office than Woodrow Wilson.
There are a lot of smart honest, progressive people who I think can be good presidents.
Assassins and presidents invite the same basic question: Just who do you think you are?
Calvin Coolidge was one of the best presidents. Why? Because he did absolutely nothing.
It was funny, when I got to Australia to The Presidents Cup, I ate about 6,000 calories.
I have walked majestically with kings and queens and presidents and other heads of states.
In the days of Caesar, kings had fools and jesters. Now network presidents have anchormen.
The U.S. needs to do more than change presidents. It needs to change its political culture.
But presidents matter. That's one of the biggest lessons I learned being in the White House.
I think different presidents have different ways of governing. We just have to respect that.
Presidents make their hard decisions and then abide forever with their mistakes and regrets.
Surveillance changes history. We know this through examples of corrupt presidents like Nixon.
I've been privileged to meet presidents and sing at inaugurations and other political events.
All of the American presidents, certainly all of the notable ones, have been pretty original.
Presidents are elected not by direct popular vote but by 538 members of the Electoral College.
Our great presidents have been stewards, men who broadly identified with the whole of America.
Occasionally, you see presidents come in and provide a clear change in direction of leadership.
Just as crises can provide a test of anyone's character, they do so especially with presidents.
It's certainly true that presidents have confidantes who rise above what you would call just staff.
I've met a handful of presidents, from Jimmy Carter to Bill Clinton to George Bush to Barack Obama.
I have walked into the palaces of kings and queens and into the houses of presidents. And much more.
Only kings, presidents, editors, and people with tapeworms have the right to use the editorial 'we.'
Doctrines provide an architecture for both Republican and Democrat presidents to carry out policies.
I've played three presidents, three saints and two geniuses - and that's probably enough for any man.
I deal with guys in their 20s and early 30s who are presidents of companies, who are movie directors.
When I found out that there was eight Presidents before George Washington, I wanted to smack somebody.
As far as I know, all the presidents know about Area 51. It would almost be impossible for them not to.
President Obama has shelled out more in federal spending than the five presidents that came before him.
If you want to change a law, you have to pass a law. Presidents don't write laws. Congress writes laws.
I get to deal with presidents and prime ministers and - and employees from tellers on up. And I love it.
The American people want their presidents to articulate big ideas and leave the details to the eggheads.
Remember, it is not about voting for the perfect candidate - there is no such thing. Presidents are human.
Mission presidents hold keys of responsibility for the welfare, safety, and success of their missionaries.
Presidents are only seen on August 15 and January 26. Who knows what they do for five years other than this?
American presidents always avoid shaking hands with brutal dictators, except when it's advantageous to do so.
We have at least learned that the offspring of presidents don't necessarily make good politicians themselves.
We have seen presidents from both parties express their frustrations with the press. That's absolutely normal.
Whenever I came up against presidents of other companies, I was always smarter, because I was from the streets.
Taxpayers should not be on the hook for subsidizing former presidents' lives to the tune of millions of dollars.
Presidents get to decide how their intelligence is served up to them, and it's the job of intelligence to adjust.
Obama achieved something in his first year with health care that successive presidents have been unable to achieve.
Historians sometimes view presidents very differently from the way the public did at the time. Sometimes they don't.
In every era going back to Lincoln with Frederick Douglass, presidents talk to those that were leading at that time.
Is it 'left' to insist that presidents and CIA directors adhere to the law? I don't think so. I think it's American.
There are only two occasions when Americans respect privacy, especially in Presidents. Those are prayer and fishing.
Presidents are evaluated not by what they did by the stroke of their own pen; it's what they persuade Congress to do.