"The central premise of my campaign for president was to change the tax code that was too skewed towards the wealthy at the expense of working, middle-class Americans. Tonight we have done that,"
Barack Obama 01/01/2013
Category: Quote of the Day, Presidency, The US (office of)
"We can't tolerate this any more. These tragedies must end. And to end them, we must change."
Obama addresses the people of Newton following last Fridays shootings 17/12/2012
Category: Quote of the Day, Presidency, The US (office of)
I am not happy about the way things are. I pray for President Obama every single day. But tell you what. Homey made this bed, now he has got to lay in it.
Stephen Baldwin 15/02/2010
at the Conservative Political Action Conference
Category: Presidency, The US (office of), Party Conferences
Blair is like a hotel greeter. Clinton did the same thing to perfection, while stroking the bottom of the nearest secretary.
J G Ballard 2001
Category: Lewinskygate, Tony Blair (quotes about)
What a pity, when Christopher Columbus discovered America, that he ever mentioned it.
Margot Asquith
Category: 100 Best Quotes Ever, Great American Quotes
Who is to blame? I will not place the blame on subordinates - on those people whose zeal exceeded their judgment, and who may have done wrong in a casue they deeply believed to be right. In any organisation, the man at the top must bear the responsibility. That responsibility, therefore, belongs here, in this office.
Richard Nixon 30/04/1973
Category: Watergate
I looked at my calendar this morning...It showed exactly 1,361 days remaining in my term.
Richard Nixon 30/04/1973
Category: Watergate
I condemn any attempts to cover up in this case, no matter hwo is involved.
Richard Nixon 17/04/1973
Category: Watergate
If you are going to lie, you go to jail for the lie rather than the crime. So believe me, don't ever lie.
Richard Nixon 16/04/1973
To John Dean on Watergate
Category: Lies & Lieing, Watergate
Well, there goes the Presidency.
Richard Nixon 07/1974
To Al Haig after a conversation with George Wallace.
Category: Presidency, The US (office of), Watergate
If this thing ever blows, then we are in a cover-up situation.
John Dean 20/03/1973
Category: Watergate
The fine hand of the Kennedys is behind this whole hearing.
Richard Nixon 28/02/1973
On the Watergate hearings.
Category: Watergate
We have a cancer close to the Presidency that is growing.
John Dean 20/03/1973
On Watergate
Category: Watergate
Unless a President can protect the privacy of the advice he gets, he cannot get the advice he needs.
Richard Nixon 29/04/1974
Annoucning he would turn 1200 pages of edited transcripts to the House Judiciary Commiteee investigating Watergate.
Category: Watergate
I am convinced that we are going to make it the whole road and put this thing in the funny pages of the history books.
John Dean 28/02/1973
On Watergate
Category: Watergate
I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just.
Thomas Jefferson 1784
From his denunciation of negro slavery.
Category: Great American Quotes, Slavery, Religion
This is an hour of history that troubles our minds and hurts our hearts.
Gerald Ford 08/1974
Category: Watergate
The world will little note nor long remember what we say here.
Abraham Lincoln 1863
Category: Great American Quotes
Each one of is has his portion of ego. At least one night I dreamed that the 22nd amendment has been repealed - and it wasn't wholly a nightmare.
Dwight D Eisenhower 13/05/1962
The 22nd amendment limits a President to serving two full terms.
Category: Presidency, The US (office of), Ego
I pledge you - I pledge myself - to a new deal for the American people.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt 02/07/1932
Category: Great American Quotes
