President Quotes - page 96

President Obama vowed in his State of the Union address to make assisting domestic manufacturers a top priority for his second term. (Karen Mills)
I love conventional apocalypse movies. In movies, I like to be with the president, or the scientist trying to solve the problem, but that's not the kind of fiction that I like to read. View quote
Karen Thompson Walker
Tell your daughters and their daughters that if they want to be a firewoman, they can be a firewoman. If they want to be an astronaut, they can be an astronaut. If they want to run their own business or run for president, they can do whatever they put their mind to. View quote
Kay Cannon
President Obama has called for economic and political empowerment of women globally. The Equal Futures Partnership promotes removal of policy, legal, and regulatory barriers that hold women back at local, state and national levels. View quote
Lael Brainard
Here at home, President Obama early on made the connection between growth and economic opportunity for women. In the depths of our crisis in 2009, one of the first laws the president signed was the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act. He established an Equal Pay Task Force led by Valerie Jarrett to help women get paid what they earn. View quote
Lael Brainard
Students of America, working families of America: President Obama will not turn his back on you. View quote
Lincoln Chafee
And Hale was devoted to President Kennedy, and there was some talk following the assassination that Hale had warned the President not to go to Dallas, and the connotation was that it would be physically dangerous for him to do so. View quote
Lindy Boggs
President Obama has made maternal health one of the core priorities of U.S. international aid funding. View quote
Liya Kebede
Eighty percent of the problems that beset unification immediately disappeared when the President signed the bill increasing the authority and the responsibility of the Secretary of Defense. View quote
Louis A. Johnson
I wanted all my visits to be official. When I sent the pass back with a note, I had no idea it would antagonize the president. I found out years later that it did. View quote
Louis J. Freeh
Mr. Do-Nothing Obama will say today, 'Lets think of all the poor dead people' - or 'let's honor all the dead' instead of fighting for the living. He has been really useless in terms of both HIV and gay issues. He is simply not a leader. He may be president, but he is not a leader. (Larry Kramer)
Nothing in the 14th Amendment or in any other constitutional provision suggests that the president may usurp legislative power to prevent a violation of the Constitution. View quote
Laurence Tribe
The Constitution grants only Congress - not the president - the power 'to borrow money on the credit of the United States.' View quote
Laurence Tribe
I was with - he wasn't the president then, but - Barack Obama, when he was running, in Washington, during Black Congressional Caucus Weekend, and did a panel about global warming with him. It was almost as if I switched careers for a while, and became a political activist. View quote
Lawrence Bender
In 1998, I was screening 'Good Will Hunting' at Camp David. And I was saying, 'Nice to meet you, Mr. President. Nice to meet you, Mrs. Clinton.' Madeleine Albright, Sandy Berger, Senator Daschle. It was an extraordinary day. View quote
Lawrence Bender
If you go back and look at President Reagan's speeches, they bring you to tears almost. View quote
Lawrence Bender
Our black president can't say that he's for gay marriage. That is upsetting to me. View quote
Mario Cantone
President Obama's health care law raided Medicare in the tune of five hundred million dollars to create a new program. View quote
Mario Diaz-Balart
So, President Obama wants to change America. I understand that. We don't need to change America. We need to change the White House. We need to change the leadership in the White House. View quote
Mario Diaz-Balart
You know, I think Marco Rubio would be a spectacular candidate for vice president. I think he would energize the country. I think he has a great story. He's bright. He's articulate. View quote
Mario Diaz-Balart
Humor is very very risky, particularly for a candidate, unless he's been in so long that it just doesn't matter, and he's not running for president. But it's just that people are so sensitive and so touchy, and you're just going to upset somebody without ever realizing it. (Mark Russell)
I didn't realize the president was such an historian. View quote
Mark Shields
President Ford was a devoted, decent man of impeccable integrity who put service to his country before his own self interest. He helped heal our nation during a time of crisis, provided steady leadership and restored people's faith in the presidency and in government. View quote
Mark Udall
President Obama's reelection started the countdown for lawmakers to address the fiscal cliff and the statutory debt limit. Unless the President and House Republicans can agree on changes to current law, the U.S. economy will be in recession by spring. View quote
Mark Zandi
Humor helps ease the tension of race and the differences in society. If there wasn't comedy I don't know if Obama could have ever become president. View quote
Marlon Wayans