[The American President] has to take all sorts of abuse from liars and demagogues.… The people can never understand why the President does not use his supposedly great power to make ’em behave. Well, all the President is, is a glorified public relations man who spends his time flattering, kissing and kicking people to get them to do what they are supposed to do anyway.
Harry TrumanTags: power democracy funny elections government president political-science politics-observation politicians democrats republicans democracy-freedom democracy-voting democracy-fascism politics-science politicsics
All modern U.S. presidents are perforce politicians, prisoners of their past pronouncements, their party, their constituency, and their colleagues.
Tony JudtTags: president politician presidency
If we lose freedom here, there is no place to escape to. This is the last stand on earth.
Ronald ReaganTags: inspirational freedom president
He's a man [George W. Bush] who is lucky to be governor of Texas. He is a man who is unusually incurious, abnormally unintelligent, amazingly inarticulate, fantastically uncultured, extraordinarily uneducated, and apparently quite proud of all these things.
Christopher HitchensTags: george-w-bush president anti-intellectualism uneducated-mind governor-of-texas
I'm done doing this!' Obama said, finally erupting. 'We've all agreed on a plan. And we're all going to stick to that plan. I haven't agreed to anything beyond that.'
The 30,000 was a 'hard cap,' he said forcefully. 'I don't want enablers to be used as wiggle room. The easy thing for me to do - politically - would actually be to say no' to the 30,000. Then he gestured out the Oval Office windows, across the Potomac, in the direction of the Pentagon. Referring to Gates and the uniformed military, he said. 'They think it's the opposite. I'd be perfectly happy -' He stopped mid-sentence. 'Nothing would make Rahm happier than if I said no to the 30,000.'
There was some subdued laughter.
'Rahm would tell me it'd be much easier to do what I want to do by saying no,' the president said. He could then focus on the domestic agenda that he wanted to be the heart of his presidency. The military did not understand. 'Politically, what these guys don't get is it'd be a lot easier for me to go out and give a speech saying, 'You know what? The American people are sick of this war, and we're going to get out of there.
Tags: war military president afghanistan bob-woodward chief-of-staff obama-s-war rahm-emmanuel robert-gates secretary-of-defense
Finally, the president added, 'The American people are idealists, but they also want their leaders to be realistic...
Bob WoodwardTags: leadership president american idealists bob-woodward obama-s-wars
Obama's rhetorical overtures to democracy, it turned out, were just a decoy to conceal his unwavering determination to govern from the far left.
Sean HannityTags: deception president sham progressivism
Women are the only people I am afraid of who I never thought would hurt me
Abraham LincolnTags: president abraham-lincoln lincoln abraham president-lincoln
في اليوم الأول كانت مطالبنا تتمثل في وضع حد أدنى للأجور، وإعانة البطالة، وإجراء تعديلات دستورية تمنع الرئيس من ترشيح نفسه، ومنع التوريث، وإلغاء قانون الطوارئ، وإقالة وزير الداخلية، وكنا نتمنى أن يخرج الرئيس في مساء ذلك اليوم ويقول لنا إن عددكم كبير ومطالبكم مشروعة وأنا موافق عليها، ولو كان فعل ذلك في أول يوم لكانت أشياء كثيرة تغيرت. ~ من حوار وائل غنيم مع صحيفة المصري اليوم
Ihab OmarTags: revolution president egypt jan25
God bless our good and gracious King,
Whose promise none relies on;
Who never said a foolish thing,
Nor ever did a wise one.
Tags: politics president royalty
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