Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ed Goeas

Running away from the president makes the situation worse.

Ben Nelson

Anytime the president visits Nebraska its good for Nebraska.

Barbara Olson

Of all presidential perks, the pardon power has a special significance. It is just the kind of authority that would attract the special attention of someone obsessed with himself and his own ability to influence events.

Calvin Coolidge

I always figured the American public wanted a solemn ass for president, so I went along with them.

Calvin Coolidge

Four-fifths of all our troubles would disappear, if we would only sit down and keep still.

Dikembe Mutombo

I am not in politics. 'President Mutombo?' No, no, no. There has never been a politician in my family, and I am not going to try to be the first one.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Unlike presidential administrations, problems rarely have terminal dates.

Amelie Nothomb

I thought maybe I would become a god, or a goddess, or a president or a Nobel Prize winner.

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

I can be President of the United States, or I can control Alice. I cannot possibly do both.

George H. W. Bush

Appeasement does not work. As was the case in the 1930s, we see in Saddam Hussein an aggressive dictator threatening his neighbors.

Douglas Feith

It was known in the mid 90s already that Saddam Hussein was a dangerous tyrant that he had already launched aggressions against Iran, he had invaded Kuwait.

Colin Powell

The burden is on Saddam Hussein. And our policy, our national policy - not the UN policy but our national policy - is that the regime should be changed until such time as he demonstrates that it is not necessary to change the regime because the regime has changed itself.

Isabella Bird

If one's memories of Baghdad women were only of those to be seen in the streets, they would be of leathery, wrinkled faces, prematurely old, figures which have lost all shape, and henna-stained hands crinkled and deformed by toil.

Les Aspin

That was not part of the U.N. resolution; it was not part of the mandate to go on to Baghdad and, frankly, if we had gone into Baghdad and pushed Saddam Hussein off, we would have inherited an even bigger mess than the mess we inherited with the refugee problem.

Rick Lynch

That's what happened in Baghdad today and that's what happened in Amman yesterday.

Thomas Steg

I honestly don't know whether a city of 4 million such as Baghdad could develop a defense concept on the basis of such a sketch.

Mark Gwozdecky

They are in Baghdad to work and they will work their butts off as long as they are there.

Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf

You can go and visit those places. Nothing there, nothing at all. There are Iraqi checkpoints. Everything is okay.

John McCain

There are neighborhoods in Baghdad where you and I could walk through those neighborhoods today.