"It's pretty hard to say no when a vice president-elect and a president-elect ask you to be part of the national team."
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"The vice-president's tongue is several time zones ahead of his brain."
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"Donald Trump called George W. Bush 'the worst president in the history of the United States.' Then he added, 'Until, of course, I'm elected.'"
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"President Obama , I guess, is starting to confess to some of his anxieties. In a recent interview, President Obama said, 'I miss being anonymous.' He said, 'In the old days, I could blend in with all the other Hawaiian Barack Hussein Obamas.'"
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"President Bush delivered a commencement speech at a university in Wisconsin. A very inspirational speech. Apparently Bush told the students, 'You can do anything in life if your parents work hard enough.'"
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"We have, or have had women presidents or prime ministers in Liberia, Chile, Germany, Great Britain...and yet the US of A still hasn't had a women president. It's just beyond my thinking. Look at Congress."
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"For me, President Obama is our best choice because he has a vision of the United States as a place where we are all in this together."
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"Now that the 2014 elections are over and national politics is all about 2016, Democrats have good reason to worry that, for all his success at the polls, President Obama will leave his party with a toxic legacy."
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"Today’s endorsement by President Barack Obama of the creation of a Hamas-led Palestinian state based on the pre-1967 borders, signals the most egregious foreign policy decision his administration has made to date..."
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"A pardon for Edward Snowden would be good for America and would help burnish the president's legacy as one of the primary defenders of human rights."
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"Freedom is not a gift which can be enjoyed save by those shown themselves worthy of it."
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"While President, I have been President - emphatically."
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"Donald Trump was elected president of the United States of America. The UK and the US have shared challenges, shared interests, that we can work together to deal with. We have a special relationship, it's longstanding, it's existed through many different prime ministers and presidents. I want to build on that relationship."
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"Choice by the people themselves is not generally distinguished for its wisdom."
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"If you become president, you're guaranteed to develop some nervous habit."
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"When the President (of the United States) mentions your name in anger, you know the sh*t has hit the fan!"
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"President George Bush declared a National Day of Prayer for Peace. This was after he had carefully arranged and started the war."
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"Nixon wasn't really considered the president by the youth of America. He was considered to be a fraud and which he proved himself to be."
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"Mr. Chairman, I think the record should show that for the first time since McKinley, we have a Republican president worth shooting, and I think that's a good sign."
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"Power is poison. Its effect on Presidents had always been tragic, chiefly as an almost insane excitement at first, and a worse reaction afterwards."
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