"A president is supposed to calm the American people with sober decision-making in the national interest."
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"We need earmark reform, and when I'm President, I will go line by line to make sure that we are not spending money unwisely."
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"You know, one of the things I think you understand as president is you're held responsible for everything, but you don't always have control of everything, right?"
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"The way I read Billy Carter's testimony, he was a model citizen himself until the voters went and ruined his life by making his brother President."
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"I have simply tried to do what seemed best each day, as each day came."
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"I think I should be a president. President of the United States."
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"No president has the right to say he is judge, jury and executioner."
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"Experience has already shown that the impeachment the Constitution has provided is not even a scarecrow."
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"We have a president for whom English is a second language. He's like 'We have to get rid of dictators,' but he's pretty much one himself."
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"I respect the office of the presidency, but I never worship at the shrines of our public servants...The Washington press corps has the privilege of asking the president of the United States what he is doing and why."
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"Like as a wise man in time of peace prepares for war."
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"The President does not have power under the Constitution to unilaterally authorize a military attack in a situation that does not involve stopping an actual or imminent threat to the nation."
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"You didn't elect me to tell you what you wanted to hear. You elected me to tell you the truth."
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"I think that Donald Trump is coming to this office with fewer set hard-and-fast policy prescriptions than a lot of other presidents might be arriving with."
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"I'm not just a candidate, I'm the President"
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"Abraham Lincoln and Millard Fillmore had the same title. They were both presidents of the United States, but their tenure in office and their legacy could not be more different."
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"President Obama is doing the right thing by offering young immigrants, most often in this country through no action of their own, a chance to live and work openly, free from the fear of deportation."
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"With any president it is difficult to predict how the world will be effected by his presence in the white house."
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"[On hearing that President Coolidge was dead:] How can you tell?"
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"Suppose something would happen to the president, who would be in charge? The Vice President. Joe Biden? You have got to be kidding today when you say the Taliban's not our enemy."
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