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"To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public. Nothing but the truth should be spoken about him or any one else. But it is even more important to tell the truth, pleasant or unpleasant, about him than about any one else."
"When I found out that there was eight Presidents before George Washington, I wanted to smack somebody."
"There is a tragic flaw in our precious constitution, and I don't know what can be done to fix it. This is it: Only nut cases want to be president."
"There is little value in insuring the survival of our nation if our traditions do not survive with it. And there is very grave danger that an announced need for increased security will be seized upon by those anxious to expand its meaning to the very limits of official censorship and concealment."
"I don`t think the Donald Trump`s qualified to be president of the United States, and every time he speaks, that opinion is confirmed."
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"I've seen firsthand that being president doesn't change who you are. It reveals who you are."
"If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged."
"If we lose freedom here, there is no place to escape to. This is the last stand on earth."
"The United States brags about its political system, but the President says one thing during the election, something else when he takes office, something else at midterm and something else when he leaves."
"Welfare's purpose should be to eliminate, as far as possible, the need for its own existence."
"I'm going to be honest, I would love for Flava Flav to be president. It would bring a lot of excitement to the country."
"I don't know anyone at the highest levels who approved Abu Ghraib. If President Barack Obama for a moment thought that somebody at a high level had approved it, he would go after them."
"I didn't vote for him, but he's my President, and I hope he does a good job."
"Presidents are selected, not elected."
"No, I'm not interested in developing a powerful brain. All I'm after is just a mediocre brain, something like the President of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company."
"I take the Constitution very seriously. The biggest problems that we're facing right now have to do with [the president] trying to bring more and more power into the executive branch and not go through Congress at all. And that's what I intend to reverse when I'm President of the United States of America."
"There will be great presidents again but there will never be another Camelot."
"One of the first lessons a president has to learn is that every word he says weighs a ton."
"The dangers of a concentration of all power in the general government of a confederacy so vast as ours are too obvious to be disregarded."
"President Obama is the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people."
"The only legitimate right to govern is an express grant of power from the governed."
"Presidents are elected not by direct popular vote but by 538 members of the Electoral College."
"One hundred years of delay have passed since President Lincoln freed the slaves, yet their heirs, their grandsons, are not fully free. They are not yet freed from the bonds of injustice. They are not yet freed from social and economic oppression. And this nation, for all its hopes and all its boasts, will not be fully free until all its citizens are free."
"Mr. Vice President, I know you're under a lot of duress to make up for lost ground, but I think people would be better served if we don't keep interrupting each other."
"President Obama believes in a level playing field."
