Friday, November 09, 2007

QUOTES THAT MAKE YOU THINK


Anyone that wants the presidency so much that he'll spend two years organizing and campaigning for it is not to be trusted with the office.- David Broder

Being president is like being a jackass in a hailstorm. There's nothing to do but to stand there and take it - Lyndon B. Johnson

To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.
- Theodore Roosevelt

The President is the last person in the world to know what the people really want and think. - James A. Garfield

Our differences are politics. Our agreements are principles. - William McKinley

The office of president is a bastardized thing, half royalty and half democracy, that nobody knows whether to genuflect or spit. - Jimmy Breslin

I think "No comment" is a splendid expression. - Winston Churchill

No easy problems ever come to the President of the United States. If they are easy to solve, somebody else has solved them. - Dwight David Eisenhower

The vice-presidency isn't worth a pitcher of warm piss. - Dwight David Eisenhower

In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take. - George Robert Stephanopolous

I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man. - George Washington

Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom. - Thomas Jefferson

What is the use of being elected or reelected unless you stand for something?
- Grover Cleveland

Mothers all want their sons to grow up to be president, but they don't want them to become politicians in the process. - John Fitzgerald Kennedy

Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job. - Douglas Adams



4 comments:

Anonymous said...

I don't know a single soul who wants to be a politician.

JFK was wrong.

Reader Wil said...

The presidents of the USA are called the mightiest man in the world. A bit scary isn't it in some cases?!

Wanda said...

Me either Mr. Lincoln. I wish we could run the country without them.

A great set of quotes, Mrs. Lincoln.

Thanks for your warm and interesting comments on my post.

Jo's-D-Eyes said...

Hi Patty,
Presidents have always surprising quotes and lines, therefore they must be a president right? haha

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