Presidents Choice Quotes & Sayings

The hand is the visible part of the brain. — Immanuel Kant

And right this second I want to live in ignorant bliss. — Simone Elkeles

It is a sad thing to me that in this world a persons value is measured by the size of their wallet. — Heather Wolf

History is as Old as My Grandfather — Adolf Hitler

Amazing, Yetta thought. Back home I couldn't have chosen my own husband. And here I'm thinking about choosing presidents, governors, mayors, laws ... — Margaret Peterson Haddix

Led Zeppelin was a very sensitive and beautiful animal beast. — Robert Plant

The President in particular is very much a figurehead - he wields no real power whatsoever. He is apparently chosen by the government, but the qualities he is required to display are not those of leadership but those of finely judged outrage. For this reason the President is always a controversial choice, always an infuriating but fascinating character. His job is not to wield power but to draw attention away from it. On those criteria Zaphod Beeblebrox is one of the most successful Presidents the Galaxy has ever had - he has already spent two of his ten presidential years in prison for fraud. — Douglas Adams

Welcome to war. It's always a SNAFU: situation normal, all f - ed up. — Nicholas Sparks

The criticism usually goes only to the religious right. 'Bigots,' 'intolerant,' 'hateful' - those labels get slapped on quickly and usually when we are winning debates and scoring points against liberals. — Kay Coles James

The hardest part about directing is getting everyone on the same page. — Rob Marshall

I'm so hungry for any sight of anyone who's able to do whatever it is he's doing! — Ayn Rand

When I first saw Destiny's Child, I was in the fifth grade, and it made me want to sing and make music, and there would be these freestyles on the radio for what seemed like hours; it was just so cool to me. — Lizzo

It is important that Miers not be confirmed unless, in her 61st year, she suddenly and unexpectedly is found to have hitherto undisclosed interests and talents pertinent to the court's role. Otherwise the sound principle of substantial deference to a president's choice of judicial nominees will dissolve into a rationalization for senatorial abdication of the duty to hold presidents to some standards of seriousness that will prevent them from reducing the Supreme Court to a private plaything useful for fulfilling whims on behalf of friends. — George Will

How odd that Americans, and not just their presidents, have come to think of their Constitution as something separable from the government it's supposed to constitute. In theory, it should be as binding on rulers as the laws of physics are on engineers who design bridges; in practice, its axioms have become mere options. Of course engineers don't have to take oaths to respect the law of gravity; reality gives them no choice. Politics, as we see, makes all human laws optional for politicians. — Joseph Sobran

Obama is making a choice now that will lead to the deaths of many thousands of civilians in Afghanistan by American hands. By ordinary standards of presidents, he is a decent man. But those standards aren't good enough. He's in a position either to kill or not to kill, and he's made the decision to kill. — Daniel Ellsberg

There's so much crap talked about acting. — Ben Kingsley

In the life of nations, what in the last resort decides questions is a kind of Judgment Court of God ... Always before god and the world the stronger has the right to carry through what he wills. — Adolf Hitler

Once you're an addict, you're always an addict, so just because I found something good to do doesn't mean I'm not going to hurt myself doing it. — Jeff Tweedy

Mike Smith - living proof of the need for ejector seats in helicopters. — Victor Lewis-Smith

Truman left in the middle of an unpopular war, a war of choice. Truman didn't have to go into South Korea. And he was reviled and ridiculed for the stalemate that resulted. Now, he's seen as one of the great presidents of the 20th century. — Charles Krauthammer