(1981 quotes found)
“John Kerry will be the Democratic nominee for president. Democrats finally found someone who is Al Gore without the flash and the sizzle.”
Craig Kilborn
“Since I came here I have learned that Chester A. Arthur is one man and the President of the United States is another.”
Chester A. Arthur
“As to the presidency, the two happiest days of my life were those of my entrance upon the office and my surrender of it.”
Martin Van Buren
“A long life in journalism convinced me many presidents ago that there should be a large air space between a journalist and the head of a state.”
Walter Lippmann
“People in the media say they must look at the president with a microscope. Now, I don't mind a microscope, but boy, when they use a proctoscope, that's going too far.”
Richard M. Nixon
“The President inserted a cigar into Ms Lewinsky's vagina, then put the cigar in his mouth and said: "It tastes good”
Kenneth Starr
“The President can exercise no power which cannot be fairly and reasonably traced to some specific grant of power . . . in the Federal Constitution or in an act of Congress passed in pursuance thereof. There is no undefined residuum of power which he can exercise because it seems to him to be in the public interest.”
William Howard Taft
“The Security and Exchanges Commission is going to be investigating Vice President Dick Cheney. They'll begin that investigation as soon as Congress finishes investigating the Security and Exchanges Commission.”
David Letterman
“When asked, "If you had been in President Clinton's place would you have resigned?" Armey's reply:"If I had been in the president's place I would not have gotten the chance to resign. I would have been lying in a pool of my own blood, looking up, and listening to my wife ask, 'How do you reload this son of a bitch'?"”
Dick Armey
“Look for what's missing. Many advisors can tell a President how to improve what's proposed or what's gone amiss. Few are able to see what isn't there.”
Donald Rumsfeld
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