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A bureaucrat is a Democrat who holds some office that a Republican wan...  
A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he...   Politics
A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities and an ...  
A politician is a man who understands government. A statesman is a pol...  
A President cannot always be popular.  
A president either is constantly on top of events or, if he hesitates,...  
A President needs political understanding to run the government, but h...  
Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.  
All my life, whenever it comes time to make a decision, I make it and ...  
All the president is, is a glorified public relations man who spends h...   Politics
Always be sincere, even if you don't mean it.  
America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagin...  
Any man who has had the job I've had and didn't have a sense of humor ...  
Art is parasitic on life, just as criticism is parasitic on art.  
Being too good is apt to be uninteresting.  
Carry the battle to them. Don't let them bring it to you. Put them on ...  
Experience has shown how deeply the seeds of war are planted by econom...  
He wasn't used to being criticized, and he never did get it through hi...  
He's one of the few in the history of this country to run for high off...  
How do you live a long life? "Take a two-mile walk every morning befor...  
I do not believe there is a problem in this country or the world today...  
I don't give a damn about "The Missouri Waltz" but I can't say it out ...  
I don't want it torn down. I think it's the greatest monstrosity in Am...  
I had faith in Israel before it was established, I have in it now. I b...  
I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find o...  
I have no desire to crow over anybody or to see anybody eating crow, f...  
I have read your lousy review of Margaret's concert. I've come to the ...  
I never did give anybody hell. I just told the truth and they thought ...  
I never gave anybody hell! I just told the truth and they thought it w...  
I remember when I first came to Washington. For the first six months y...  
I was the only calm one in the house. You see I've been shot at by exp...  
I would rather have peace in the world than be President.  
I've said many a time that I think the Un-American Activities Committe...  
If I hadn't been President of the United States, I probably would have...  
If I'd known how much packing I'd have to do, I'd have run again.  
If you can't convince them, confuse them.  
If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen.  
In my opinion eight years as president is enough and sometimes too muc...  
In my Sunday School class there was a beautiful little girl with golde...  
In reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they...  
Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.  
It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the ...  
It is terrible-and I mean terrible-nuisance to be kin to the president...  
It is understanding that gives us an ability to have peace. When we un...  
It seems like there was always somebody for supper.  
It sure is hell to be president.  
It's a recession when your neighbor loses his job; it's a depression w...  
It's plain hokum. If you can't convince 'em, confuse 'em. It's an old ...  
Men make history and not the other way around. In periods where there ...  
Most of the problems a President has to face have their roots in the p...  
My choice early in life was either to be a piano-player in a whorehous...  
My father was not a failure. After all, he was the father of a preside...  
Nixon is one of the few in the history of this country to run for high...  
Our conference in 1945 did much more than draft an international agree...  
Richard Nixon is a no good, lying bastard. He can lie out of both side...  
That precedent should continue-not by a Constitutional amendment but b...  
The atom bomb was no "great decision." It was merely another powerful ...  
The best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they ...  
The buck stops here!  
The human animal cannot be trusted for anything good except en masse. ...  
The Marine Corps is the Navy's police force and as long as I am Presid...   History
The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know...  
The President is always abused. If he isn't, he isn't doing anything.  
The reward of suffering is experience.  
The United Nations is designed to make possible lasting freedom and in...  
The White House is the finest prison in the world.  
Therefore to re-establish that custom, although by a quibble I could s...  
This administration is going to be cussed and discussed for years to c...  
Those who want the Government to regulate matters of the mind and spir...  
To hell with them. When history is written they will be the sons of bi...  
Upon books the collective education of the race depends; they are the ...  
We believe that all men are created equal because they are created in ...  
We must build a new world, a far better world - one in which the etern...  
We must have strong minds, ready to accept facts as they are.  
We shall never be able to remove suspicion and fear as potential cause...  
We're going to be buried out here. I like the idea because I may just ...  
Well, I wouldn't say that I was in the great class, but I had a great ...  
When even one American-who has done nothing wrong-is forced by fear to...  
When you have an efficient government, you have a dictatorship.  
Whenever a fellow tells me he's bipartisan, I know he's going to vote ...  
Whenever you put a man on the Supreme Court he ceases to be your frien...  
Why, this fellow don't know any more about politics than a pig knows a...  
You and I are stuck with the necessity of taking the worst of two evil...  
You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one...  
You can never get all the facts from just one newspaper, and unless yo...  
You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your pa...  
You want a friend in Washington? Get a dog.   Funny