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Abbie Hoffman
Avoid all needle drugs - the only dope worth shooting is Richard Nixon.
Adlai Stevenson, speech, Democratic National Convention, 18 August 1956
The idea that you can merchandise candidates for high office like breakfast cereal.
Author Unknown
George Washington is the only president who didn't blame the previous administration for his troubles.
Author Unknown
A leader leads by example, whether he intends to or not.
Author Unknown
Coolidge was known for his terse speech and reticence.
Author Unknown
Politicians are like diapers. They both need changing regularly and for the same reason.
Clarence Darrow
When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it.
Donald H. McGannon
Leadership is action, not position.
Gore Vidal
Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so.
Indira Gandhi
I suppose that leadership at one time meant muscle; but today it means getting along with people.
John F. Kennedy, to his Nobel Prize-winning guests
I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been gathered together at the White House - with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined here alone.
Napoleon Bonaparte
A leader is a dealer in hope.
Robert Jarvik
Leaders are visionaries with a poorly developed sense of fear and no concept of the odds against them.
Saul Bellow
The presidency is now a cross between a popularity contest and a high school debate, with an encyclopedia of cliches the first prize.
Thomas J. Watson
Nothing so conclusively proves a man's ability to lead others as what he does from day to day to lead himself.
Thomas Jefferson, letter, 1796
No man will ever bring out of the Presidency the reputation which carries him into it.
Tom Peters
Leaders don't create followers, they create more leaders.
Will Rogers
Ohio claims they are due a president as they haven't had one since Taft. Look at the United States, they have not had one since Lincoln.
 
 
 
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