Tuesday, January 12, 2010

Think about these

Quotes About Presidents
and from President's
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 i.t- 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


6 comments:

Brenda said...

I can't believe I am saying this... but I have to agree with LBJ. It seems as soon as the man gets elected.. he is fair game for all to kick around. The hail storm of critics!

Arkansas Patti said...

Many truths there. As an old lady once told a friend of mine running for office.."I have known you all your life Phil but I will not vote for you. You are a decent man and I want you to stay that way."

Gigi Ann said...

Those were good. I don't understand why anyone would want to be President. Damned if he does and damned if he don't. It's a no win situation to be in.

Beth Niquette said...

These are wonderful--one of my favorite quotes is from a relative of your husband!

"Gentlemen, why don't you laugh? With the fearful strain that is
upon me night and day, if I did not laugh, I should die."
-- Abraham Lincoln

Yep, laughter sometimes is better than tears when relieving tension!

LOL--have a wonderful week!

Reanaclaire said...

All The President's Men..lol.. yes, US president is no joke.. all eyes are on him.

claude said...

Quotes very interesting Patty.
I like very much the one told par JF Kennedy. Do not wonder what your country can do for you but what you can do for your country.
And I love too what President Obama said "Yes, We can" and I hope he will be able to do all what he wants to do for his country.