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I dont want to be President I dont

When from behind me, a young woman of 25 uttered the following, it was the dumbest thing I have ever heard in my life until Dan Quayle was elected Vice President of the United States. She said, if it weren’t for my horse, I wouldn’t have spent that year in college.

And the reason that I was one of the first, not one of the last to be in opposition to the TPP is that American workers should not be forced to compete against people in Vietnam today making a minimum wage of $0.65 an hour. Look, what we have got to do is tell corporate America that they cannot continue to shut down. We’ve lost 60,000 factories since 2001. They’re going to start having to, if I’m president, invest in this country – not in China, not in Mexico.

As long as I’m president of the United States Iran will not get a nuclear weapon. I made that clear when I came into office.

One of the things you discover about being president is that there are all these rules and norms and laws and you got to pay attention to them.

During the 1999 debate over Permanent Normal Trade Relations with China President Bill Clinton said, ‘In opening the economy of China, the agreement will create unprecedented opportunities for American farmers, workers and companies to compete successfully in China’s market. WRONG: Our trade deficit with China has increased from $83 billion in 2001 to a record breaking $342 billion in 2014.

When you see how the President makes political or policy decisions, you see who he is. The essence of the Presidency is decision-making.

One of my most often repeated quips was the one I made when former Presidents Carter, Ford and Nixon stood by each other at a White House event. ‘There they are,’ I said. ‘See no evil, hear no evil, and . . . evil.’

If you’re the president you only have two jobs: peace and money.

Well, there doesn’t seem anything else for an ex-President to do but to go into the country and raise big pumpkins.

This Federal Reserve Act establishes the most gigantic trust on earth. When the President (Wilson) signs this bill the invisible government of the Monetary Power will be legalized.

Jimmy Carter will go down in American history as ‘the president who lost Iran,’

Loyalty to the President is great, but loyalty to truth, integrity, and country is even better.

I think that [Donald] Trump is brilliant to raise this issue. When my son, Gabriel, and his wife, Deb, was pregnant, I said, You got to come home. I want my grandson to be president of the United States. He has to be born in the United States.Now, a child of a citizen of the United States born abroad or born wheresoever is a citizen if that’s – he or she so chooses. So there’s no doubt but that Ted Cruz is a citizen of the United States.

The real truth of the matter is, as you and I know, that a financial element in the larger centers has owned the Government ever since the days of Andrew Jackson – and I am not wholly excepting the Administration of W. W. The country is going through a repetition of Jackson’s fight with the Bank of the United States – only on a far bigger and broader basis.

America needs a president who understands the nature of the world we live in.

Presidents are selected, not elected.

I never thought we’d ever have a black president. President Obama has done such a tremendous job He just has been unable to get what he needs to be moved at the level it should be moved.

If I hadn’t been President of the United States, I probably would have ended up a piano player in a bawdy house.

Associate with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation; for it is better to be alone than in bad company.

I do not like broccoli. And I haven’t liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it. And I’m President of the United States and I’m not going to eat any more broccoli.

I had rather be right than be President.

I am not ashamed to be a Christian, and I am glad to know that the President of the United States is a Christian, for without the help of the Almighty I do not think he could rightly judge in ruling so many people. I have advised all of my people who are not Christians, to study that religion, because it seems to me the best religion in enabling one to live right.

I hope for an America where no president, no public official, no individual will ever be deemed a greater or lesser American because of religious doubt – or religious belief.

Today it is becoming harder to speak out, with the inception of the Patriot Act, the president has legislated free speech to be a crime.

There have been many amazing Presidents in American history, including George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Dwight Eisenhower and Ronald Reagan, all of whom I greatly admire.

It is extraordinary that each of the three individuals this president [ George W. Bush] has nominated for the Supreme Court – Chief Justice [John] Roberts, Harriet Miers and now Judge Alito – has served not only as a lawyer for the executive branch, but has defended the most expansive view of presidential authority.

Americans have been dumbed down to the point where more people watching ‘American Idol’ than listen to the state of the union address. And that’s too bad. I’m not trying to take any bread out of the mouth of Simon Cowell, but if the president is speaking to the people of the United States, and people are going to watch ‘American Idol,’ that’s sad.

[President George W.] Bush – never mind his well-crafted set speeches; listen to him as he leans on a lectern, chatting to an audience of carpenters – is completely comfortable being himself, a skill still eluding Gore in his 55th year.

There is no more important task in Washington than cleaning up the culture of corruption. Yet the president – whose White House has become the cradle of Republican corruption – is not taking responsibility for the costs of that corruption.

Historians will come to their own judgments about President Kennedy. Here is how I choose to remember him. He was an heir to wealth who felt the anguish of the poor. He was an orator of excellence who spoke for the voiceless. He was a son of Harvard who reached out to the sons and daughters of Appalachia. He was a man of special grace who had a special care for the retarded and handicapped. He was a hero of war who fought hardest for peace. He said and proved in word and deed that one man can make a difference.

There will be great presidents again but there will never be another Camelot.

I’ve pretty much always used my positions as a bully pulpit. What that means is strongly advocating for the things I feel are really important. Gun violence, to me, is the highest-priority public-health issue, and I have to make sure Congress is aware of it, the American people are aware of it, the president is aware of it, and that we all begin together to develop policies to exterminate the disease – the epidemic, really – of gun violence.

Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.