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I have tender feelings for Nixon, because everybody has warm feelings about their childhood.
Stephen Colbertborn 1964Rolling Stone interview (31 October 2006)
- Comedy
In our nation’s 246 year history, there has never been an individual who is a greater threat to our republic than Donald Trump.
Dick Cheney1941–2025Campaign advertisement for Liz Cheney’s re-election (August 2022)
- Politics
The nonsense about President Obama being a Muslim has got to stop. I rise to defend him from this absurd accusation by pointing out that he is obviously an atheist.
Ann Coulterborn 1961“Obama Is Not A Muslim” (September 1, 2010).
- Clever Jabs
I feel that my duty has been faithfully, though it may be imperfectly, performed, and, whatever the result may be, I shall carry to my grave the consciousness that I at least meant well for my country.
James Buchanan1791–1868Speech to Congress (8 January 1861).
- Patriotism
I will not accept if nominated, and will not serve if elected.
William Tecumseh Sherman1820–1891Telegram sent to General Henderson in 1884, refusing to run in the United States presidential election of that year. As quoted in Sherman’s Memoirs, 4th ed. 1891
- Politics
Here’s the way I look at it. President Bush has uranium-tipped bunker busters and I have puns. I think he’ll be OK.
Jon Stewartborn 1962Rolling Stone interview, October 31, 2006
- Humor
America has furnished to the world the character of Washington! And if our American institutions had done nothing else, that alone would have entitled them to the respect of mankind.
Daniel Webster1782–1852On the Completion of the Bunker Hill Monument (1843), p. 105
- America
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.
George H. W. Bush1924–2018News conference (22 March 1990)
- Comedy
- Food
A President is neither prince nor pope, and I don’t seek a window on men’s souls. In fact, I yearn for a greater tolerance, an easy-goingness about each other’s attitudes and way of life.
George H. W. Bush1924–2018George H. W. Bush’s Inaugural Address (1989)
George Bush doesn’t care about black people.
Kanye Westborn 1977Live on NBC’s A Concert for Hurricane Relief (2 September 2005)
- Race
You don’t have to be smart to act — look at the outgoing president of the United States.
Cherborn 1946Remark (December 1988), reported in Brewer’s Cinema (1995)
- Acting
- Clever Jabs
All see, and most admire, the glare which hovers round the external trappings of elevated office.
George Washington1732–1799Letter to Catherine Macaulay Graham (9 January 1790)
- Power
An incumbent in Washington knows he is in trouble on the day that cartoonists begin to represent him as a king.
Christopher Hitchens1949–2011The Monarchy: A Critique of Britain’s Favourite Fetish (1990)
- Power
The constitution supposes, what the History of all Governments demonstrates, that the Executive is the branch of power most interested in war, & most prone to it.
James Madison1751–1836Letter to Thomas Jefferson (2 April 1798); published in The Writings of James Madison (1906) edited by Gaillard Hunt, Vol. 6, pp. 312-14
- Government
- War & Peace
No man can occupy the office of President without realizing that he is President of all the people.
Franklin D. Roosevelt1882–1945Address at Madison Square Garden (1936)