Famous Quotes & Sayings

Thomas Jefferson

Botany I rank with the most valuable sciences.

Thomas Jefferson

Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.

Thomas Frank

Above all else stands the burning question of bipartisanship. Whatever else the politicians might say they're about, our news analysts know that this is the true object of the nation's desire, the topic to which those slippery presidential spokesmen need always to be dragged back.

Thomas Frank

Presidential legacies are valuable things, too valuable to be left up to historians.

Viggo Mortensen

In 2016 we are faced with a particularly bizarre and unappetizing choice as regards the two main political parties' presidential candidates, in my opinion.

Vicente Fox

President Obama is committed to Hispanics and migrants.

Suzanne Collins

I can hear President Snow's voice in my head. 'On the seventy-fifth anniversary, as a reminder to the rebels that even the strongest among them cannot overcome the power of the capital, the male and female tributes will be reaped from their existing pool of victors.

Suzanne Collins

Yes, everyone in the districts will be watching me to see how I handle this death sentence, this final act of President Snow’s dominance. They will be looking for some sign that their battles have not been in vain. If I can make it clear that I’m still defying the Capitol right up to the end, the Capitol will have killed me…but not my spirit. What better way to give hope to the rebels?

Suzanne Collins

But the only thing that distracts me from my current situation is fantasizing about killing President Snow.

Suzanne Collins

I no longer feel any allegiance to these monsters called human beings, despise being one myself.

Suzanne Collins

Fire is catching! And if we burn, you burn with us!

Suzanne Collins

Positioned on my dresser, that white-as-snow rose is a personal message to me. It speaks of unfinished business. It whispers, I can find you. I can reach you. Perhaps I am watching you now.

Suzanne Collins

In my mind, President Snow should be viewed in front of marble pillars hung with oversized flags. It's jarring to see him surrounded by the ordinary objects in the room. Like taking the lid off a pot and finding a fanged viper instead of stew.

Suzanne Collins

Hope, it is the only thing stronger than fear. A little hope is effective, a lot of hope is dangerous.

Suzanne Collins

I guess this is a bad time to mention I hung a dummy and painted Seneca Crane's name on it...

Stephen Ambrose

I thought Nixon was the worst President we had ever had, save only perhaps Andrew Johnson.

Ron Ziegler

The President is aware of what is going on. That is not to say that something is going on.

Ron Wyden

Americans are free to choose everything from what they eat, drive and watch on TV to the President of the United States. Yet, when it comes to allowing Americans to choose the health insurance that works best for them and their family, the freedom to choose suddenly becomes un-American.

Ron Wyden

The president has the authority to end this dragnet surveillance immediately

Samantha Power

President Reagan, of course, did more than any other person to entrench the Republican reputation for toughness on national security.

Samantha Power

One of the things that a president needs in the face of genocide is resolve.

Steve Largent

Life is very good. I'm the president and Chief Executive Officer of the Wireless trade association, the CTIA.

Steve Forbes

The words, 'penalty,' 'restrict' and 'violate' appeared more times in President Clinton's health care reform bill than in his crime bill.

Steve Forbes

What you do as president has consequences.

Shelley Moore Capito

The president's come out with rules that say 'no new coal-fired power plants,’

Robbie Williams

I'd make a better U.S. president than George W. Bush. Bush is an idiot. I'm a better public speaker than him. It makes you wonder about the voters.

Richard Neal

President Bush is manufacturing a crisis by suggesting that Social Security is in imminent danger. It is not.

Rand Paul

The president's rattling the saber and beating the drums may have an effect.

Rand Paul

There's a sense of urgency that the president does not possess, that there is a 9/11 in the making.

Rand Paul

There was a conservative consensus for an amendment I put forward called Trust, But Verify that would have strengthened border security on both refugees, students and those coming here. And Marco sided and I guess was more sympathetic to Chuck Schumer and to the president than he was to conservative principles.

Sepp Blatter

I am the president now, the president of everybody.

Mick Jagger

Only a madman or an actor would want to be President of the United States.

Michelle Obama

I've seen firsthand that being president doesn't change who you are. It reveals who you are.