(2013 quotes found)
“I also wish that the Pledge of Allegiance were directed at the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, as it is when the President takes his oath of office, rather than to the flag and the nation”
Dr. Carl Sagan
“President Bush is taking the entire month of August off. Bush said today he thinks it is important for a president to spend time away from Washington. Or at least that's what Dick Cheney told him.”
Jay Leno
“I don't think President Bush is doing anything at all about Aids. In fact, I'm not sure he even knows how to spell Aids.”
Elizabeth Taylor
“President Bush has been silent on Schwarzenegger. Of course, he can't pronounce Schwarzenegger.”
David Letterman
“'The President did it' is not an excuse”
Nancy Cartwright
“President Bush remained undeterred by the massive display of American opposition, even though much of it came from the hundreds of thousands of voters who supported him by voting for Nader.”
Jon Stewart
“The leaders I met, whatever walk of life they were from, whatever institutions they were presiding over, always referred back to the same failure something that happened to them that was personally difficult, even traumatic, something that made them feel that desperate sense of hitting bottom--as something they thought was almost a necessity. It's as if at that moment the iron entered their soul; that moment created the resilience that leaders need.”
Warren G. Bennis
“A president's hardest task is not to do what is right but to know what is right”
Lyndon B. Johnson
“We're all rehearsing for the presidency. I always wanted to be commander-in-chief of my one-woman-army.”
Ani Difranco
“Presidents come and go, but the Supreme Court goes on forever.”
William Howard Taft