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"I applaud the fact that the president has reached out to the members of Judiciary Committee. And I applaud... the fact that he has been meeting with members of the Judiciary Committee. He's been seeking out Republicans as well as Democrats."
"For instance, it is certain that women do not want a woman for President. Nor would they have the slightest confidence in her ability to fulfill the functions of that office."
"I've worked with five Presidents in America, all of them I ask the same question always: Why didn't the American allies bomb the railways going to Auschwitz?"
"The attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon shook our nation to the core. Americans were deeply frightened, sad, and angry, and they rallied around a President who, at the time, showed impressive certitude and calm."
"I hope Hillary Clinton runs for president."
"It is with tremendous excitement and pride that EMILY's List endorses Senator Hillary Clinton for president."
"I don't know anything about American history or presidents. I don't know what tailgating is! I've never been to an Olive Garden!"
"My morals went when the president got oral."
"I have often thought that less is expected of the president of a great corporation than of an American wife."
"When our ancestors were attacked at Pearl Harbor, they called it a day that would live in infamy. The day the Partials attacked us with the RM Virus will not live in anything, because there will be none of us left to remember it." -President David R. Cregan, March 21, 2065, in a press conference at the White House. Three hours later he hanged himself."
"When George Washington was elected president, there was no national vote."
"Any time the president talks, you listen."
"We have the world's best military, even though he (President Barack Obama) has done everything he can to diminish it."
"I was student council president in high school, and even in law school, I was vice-president of the student bar association."
"I'm extremely moved by the loving, caring relationship the President always seems to have with his imaginary son."
"Presidents don't have power. Their job is to draw attention away from it."
"The Presidents job, is not to wield power himself, but to lead attention away from it."
"He didn't know why he had become president of the galaxy, except that it seemed a fun thing to be."
"During the 2008 campaign, I strongly endorsed Barack Obama for president. I did so early, when many Democratic leaders - including many prominent African-American politicians - believed the safe bet was to back then-front-runner Hillary Clinton."
"The president cannot escape from his office."
