Quotes on Presidential

Believe you can and you're halfway there.

No other President ever enjoyed the Presidency as I did.

If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for a month.

America - a great social and economic experiment, noble in motive and far-reaching in purpose.

Thomas Jefferson believed that to preserve the very foundations of our Nation, we would need dramatic change from time to time. Well, my fellow Americans, this is our time. Let us embrace it.

We need a spirit of community, a sense that we are all in this together. If we have no sense of community, the American dream will wither.

Sometimes when people are under stress, they hate to think, and it's the time when they most need to think.

The intoxication of power rapidly sobers off in the knowledge of its restrictions and under the prompt reminder of an ever-present and not always considerate press, as well as the kindly suggestions that not infrequently come from Congress.

I ask particularly that those of you who are now in school will prepare yourselves to bear the burden of leadership over the next 40 years here in the United States, and make sure that the United States - which I believe almost alone has maintained watch and ward for freedom - that the United States meet its responsibility. That is a wonderful challenge for us as a people.

We cannot change ideas in the minds of men and races with machine guns or battle ships.

Our social and economic system cannot march toward better days unless it is inspired by things of the Spirit. It is here that the higher purposes of individualism must find their sustenance.

It is the duty of all nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God.

It is easier to do a job right than to explain why you didn't.

Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.

The less government interferes with private pursuits, the better for general prosperity.

I tread in the footsteps of illustrious men, whose superiors it is our happiness to believe are not found on the executive calendar of any country.

Our most dangerous tendency is to expect too much of government, and at the same time do for it too little. . . . We must strive for normalcy to reach stability.

Economics, as it is often taught today, portrays us as homo economicus-someone who doesn't vote in presidential elections, doesn't return lost wallets, and doesn't leave tips when dining out of town. Julie Nelson reminds us that most people aren't really like that. She helps point the way to a richer, more descriptive way of thinking about economic life.

Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster.

The Senate has been debased to the level of a forum of hate and character assassination sheltered by the shield of congressional immunity.

The Federal Budget can and should be made an instrument of prosperity and stability, not a deterrent to recovery.