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Protecting all this land, working with the President to establish all these monuments, too, you know... I think the President has a land protection record that's second to no one in this century, maybe Teddy Roosevelt.

Quote by Bruce Babbitt about earth, contentment

The most important aspect of the relationship between the...

The most important aspect of the relationship between the president and the secretary of state is that they both understand who is president.

Quote by Dean Acheson about state

The progress of Evolution from President Washington to...

The progress of Evolution from President Washington to President Grant was alone evidence enough to upset Darwin.

Quote by Henry B. Adams about evolution, progress

People want you to satisfy every possible dream or expectation they would have for a woman president... We still live at a time when a female president is controversial - even though it seems so bizarre that we've made it to the 21st century...

Quote by Geena Davis about expectation, dream, woman, talent, time, people, contentment

I think the actions of the president are, in my opinion, the most vile and hateful words ever spoken by a sitting president, I am stunned and I'm horrified.

Quote by Rosie O'Donnell about opinion, word

The calls that I have received from President Bush and Vice President Cheney, the fact that there are other people that are suffering every bit as much as I am, and that our whole nation is going through a tragedy together, I think we have to...

Quote by Ted Olson about politics, tragedy, vice, suffering, nation, things, people

I wouldn't miss this opportunity for anything. For the chance to work on these conservation issues, to serve my country, to work for this president, I'd do it all over again, every single minute.

Quote by Bruce Babbitt about politics, chance, work, country

This isn't just about today, this about generations to come. And you've got a chance to be the greatest conservation President since Theodore Roosevelt, and I think he's done it.

Quote by Bruce Babbitt about politics, chance, contentment

I believe the president doesn't feel as though he's being...

I believe the president doesn't feel as though he's being attacked all of the time, if he's just being reasoned with.

Quote by F. Murray Abraham about being, faith, time

I trust that the president will try, just give it one more shot, some revolutionary way of not doing this, of bringing all those kids back home safely.

Quote by F. Murray Abraham about home

I'd like President Bush to get a gun in his hands. I'll go with him. I can't think of anything better than to die in place 's just beginning their lives.

Quote by F. Murray Abraham about beginning, death

I'd like President Bush to think maybe there's another way to think, that maybe Kissinger was wrong when he says we had to go in there because he was wrong about Vietnam.

Quote by F. Murray Abraham about bad

I felt really strongly, as a New Yorker, that the city bonded in a way that transcended race and sex and economic status. We had an opportunity that the president just completely blew. Now we've gone so far in the other direction in terms of war...

Quote by Kevin Bacon about danger, city, chance, war, sex

Machiavelli's teaching would hardly have stood the test of Parliamentary government, for public discussion demands at least the profession of good faith.

Quote by Lord Acton about elections, teaching, tests, faith, public, good, good luck

The one pervading evil of democracy is the tyranny of the...

The one pervading evil of democracy is the tyranny of the party that succeeds, by force or fraud, in carrying elections.

Quote by Lord Acton about elections, democracy, force, police

Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made...

Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.

Quote by Douglas Adams

Dullness in matters of government is a good sign, and not a bad one - in particular, dullness in parliamentary government is a test of its excellence, an indication of its success.

Quote by Walter Bagehot about elections, tests, success, bad luck, bad, good, good luck

It is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it... anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.

Quote by Douglas Adams about rules, people

Elections are won by men and women chiefly because most...

Elections are won by men and women chiefly because most people vote against somebody rather than for somebody.

Quote by Franklin P. Adams about nation, elections, man, people

Power is poison. Its effect on Presidents had always been...

Power is poison. Its effect on Presidents had always been tragic.

Quote by Henry B. Adams about power

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