Presidents For Kids Quotes & Sayings

If I were president, I would want to spend a lot of time going to the legislatures and telling them about best practices, whether it's about fighting poverty, whether it's about educating kids. The states are the laboratories where we can see what works. And I think presidents can have a much better relationship with legislatures. — John Kasich

Heck, I'm no Henry Mancini or Michel Legrand. I just play the guitar and write songs. — John Denver

I think we're raising whole generations who regard facts as more or less optional.
We have kids in elementary school who are being urged to take stands on political issues, to write letters to congressmen and presidents about nuclear energy.
They're not a decade old, and they're being thrown these kinds of questions that can absorb the lifetime of a very brilliant and learned man. And they're being taught that it's important to have views, and they're not being taught that it's important to know what you're talking about.
It's important to hear the opposite viewpoint, and more important to learn how to distinguish why viewpoint A and viewpoint B are different, and which one has the most evidence or logic behind it. They disregard that. They hear something, they hear some rhetoric, and they run with it. — Thomas Sowell

I do think about having babies a lot, actually. I think I look forward to that more than anything else. — Adam Rodriguez

Books are almost as individual as friends. There is no earthly use in laying down general laws about them. Some meet the needs of one person, and some of another; and each person should beware of the booklover's besetting sin, of what Mr. Edgar Allan Poe calls 'the mad pride of intellectuality,' taking the shape of arrogant pity for the man who does not like the same kind of books. — Theodore Roosevelt

Look, maybe I'm just not good at multi-tasking and am, therefore, jealous of those of you who can get in a workout while yammering on your cell phone, but for the love of all that is good and pure, shut your yap! — Rachel Nichols

The frame of mind in the local legislatures seems to be exerted to prevent the federal constitution from having any good effect. — Henry Knox

. . . i believe my life had to be annihilated or something in order for me to find myself. — Harriet Showman

Baboons, I observed. One with a big gun and the other with a big mouth, and both with alpha-sized, flaming pink asses. — A.J. Aalto

But we must not try to drive the Indians too fast in effecting these changes. — George Crook

Children and barbarians have clear ideas of justice due to them, but no idea at all of justice due from them. — Murray Leinster

I believe in letting each person find what they need and not getting involved with their destiny. — David Boreanaz

I try to take what's given to me and then mold it to be a better football player. — Troy Polamalu

I wish they made fajita cologne, because that stuff smells good. What's that you're wearing? That's sizzlin'! — Mitch Hedberg

In any close society it is more urgent to restrain others than to be free oneself. Hence the tendency for the central authority to absorb and supersede such as are local or delegated. — George Santayana

What the world needs is not dogma but an attitude of scientific inquiry combined with a belief that the torture of millions is not desirable, whether inflicted by Stalin or by a Deity imagined in the likeness of the believer — Bertrand Russell