Quotes on Presidential

The lessons of religious toleration - a toleration which recognizes complete liberty of human thought, liberty of conscience - is one which, by precept and example, must be inculcated in the hearts and minds of all Americans if the institutions of our democracy are to be maintained and perpetuated. We must recognize the fundamental rights of man. There can be no true national life in our democracy unless we give unqualified recognition to freedom of religious worship and freedom of education.

Canada and the United States have reached the point where we no longer think of each other as 'foreign' countries. We think of each other as friends, as peaceful and cooperative neighbors on a spacious and fruitful continent.

Over the weekend the vultures got into the presidential palace by pecking through the screens on the balcony windows and the flapping of their wings stirred up the stagnant time inside, and at dawn on Monday the city awoke out of its lethargy of centuries with the warm, soft breeze of a great man dead and rotting grandeur.

The ballot is stronger than the bullet.

Four-fifths of all our troubles would disappear, if we would only sit down and keep still.

Between ourselves and our real natures we interpose that wax figure of idealizations and selections which we call our character.

Maybe the future of Syria will not be a presidential system where one person will have all the power, so, the discussion about who should and should not rule Syria will become irrelevant. Let the Syrian people decide.

I know no method to secure the repeal of bad or obnoxious laws so effective as their stringent execution.

For all the tough talk about China during the presidential debates, Romney and Obama evaded any mention of China's suspect human rights record, corruption, and rule of law._x000D_ By not tackling these controversial topics, the candidates are protecting a strategic partnership with China at the expense of essential human values and beliefs.

Political discourse has become so rotten that it's no longer possible to tell the stench of one presidential candidate from the stink of another.

Truly, if you can't cover a five-car pile-up on Route 128, you should not be covering a presidential campaign.

There is no excitement anywhere in the world, short of war, to match the excitement of the American presidential campaign.

I debated in high school! If you told things that weren't true or just made things out of whole cloth, you were penalized. It's too bad they don't apply the same standards to presidential candidates as they do to high school students.

To waste, to destroy our natural resources, to skin and exhaust the land instead of using it so as to increase its usefulness, will result in undermining in the days of our children the very prosperity which we ought by right to hand down to them amplified and developed.

All this will not be finished in the first one hundred days. Nor will it be finished in the first one thousand days . . .nor even perhaps in our lifetime on this planet. But let us begin.

Political nature abhors a vacuum, which is what often exists for a year or two in a party after it loses a presidential election.

A wife who loses a husband is called a widow. A husband who loses a wife is called a widower. A child who loses his parents is called an orphan. There is no word for a parent who loses a child. That's how awful the loss is.

When they call the roll in the Senate, the Senators do not know whether to answer 'Present' or 'Not guilty.'

This generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny.

Happiness lies not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.

My fellow Americans, I am pleased to tell you I just signed legislation which outlaws Russia forever. The bombing begins in five minutes.