Rudy Giuliani on the presidency

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• I had a dream the other night. I dreamed that Jimmy Carter came to me and asked why I wanted his job. I told him I didn’t want his job. I want to be President.

  Ronald Reagan1911–2004

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• Democracy means that anyone can grow up to be president, and anyone who doesn’t grow up can be vice president.

  Johnny Carson1925–2005

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• You may think the President is all-powerful, but he is not. He needs a lot of guidance from the Lord.

  Barbara Bush1925–2018

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• No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.

  John Donne1572–1631No Man Is an Island (1624), Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions (1624), Meditation 17In context

• I came, I saw, I conquered.

  Julius Caesar100–44 BCInscription on the triumphal wagon reported in The Twelve Caesars by Suetonius, as translated by Robert Graves (1957).

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• The unexamined life is not worth living.

  Socrates470–399 BCThe Apology of Socrates (399 BC)

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