Presidential Quotes

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• PRESIDENTIAL QUOTE OF THE PAGE
  In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
  Abraham Lincoln


• Any woman who understands the problems of running a home will be nearer to understanding the problems of running a country.
  Margaret Thatcher


• A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination.
  Nelson Mandela


• I feel in the depths of my soul that it is the highest, most sacred, and most irreversible part of my obligation to preserve the union of these states, although it may cost me my life.
  Andrew Jackson


• A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
  Winston Churchill


• I pity the man who wants a coat so cheap that the man or woman who produces the cloth will starve in the process.
  Benjamin Harrison


• Why are some countries able, despite their very real and serious problems, to press ahead along the road to reconciliation, recovery, and redevelopment while others cannot? These are critical questions for Africa, and their answers are complex and not always clear. Leadership is crucial, of course. Kagame was a strong leader–decisive, focused, disciplined, and honest–and he remains so today. I believe that sometimes people's characters are molded by their environment. Angola, like Liberia, like Sierra Leone, is resource-rich, a natural blessing that sometimes has the sad effect of diminishing the human drive for self-sufficiency, the ability and determination to maximize that which one has. Kagame had nothing. He grew up in a refugee camp, equipped with only his own strength of will and determination to create a better life for himself and his countrymen.
  Ellen Johnson Sirleaf


• Compassion is not a dirty word.. it's time we rehabilitated compassion into the national political vocabulary of this great nation of ours.
  Kevin Rudd


• We need men who can dream of things that never were.
  John F. Kennedy


• Communists have always played an active role in the fight by colonial countries for their freedom, because the short-term objects of Communism would always correspond with the long-term objects of freedom movements.
  Nelson Mandela


• Aggression unopposed becomes a contagious disease.
  Jimmy Carter


• All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.
  Winston Churchill


• When I decided to go into politics I weighed the costs. I would get criticism. But I went ahead. So when virulent criticism came I wasn't surprised. I was better able to handle it.
  Herbert Hoover


• I do not know anyone who has got to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but should get you pretty near.
  Margaret Thatcher


• I say that why don't we bring all points of view. Sit around a table and discuss this evidence, and produce evidence as it may be, and let's see what the outcome is, which is why we are having this International panel which we are all talking about.
  Thabo Mbeki


• I find capitalism repugnant. It is filthy, it is gross, it is alienating... because it causes war, hypocrisy and competition.
  Fidel Castro


• Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.
  Nelson Mandela


• Never spend your money before you have it.
  Thomas Jefferson


• They criticize me for harping on the obvious - If all the folks in the United States would do the few simple things they know they ought to do, most of our big problems would take care of themselves.
  Calvin Coolidge


• Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
  Theodore Roosevelt


• If the choice were made, one for us to lose our sovereignty and become a member of the Commonwealth or remain with our sovereignty and lose the membership of the Commonwealth, I would say let the Commonwealth go.
  Robert Mugabe


• In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.
  Thomas Jefferson



I have seen, the desperation and disorder of the powerless: how it twists the lives of children on the streets of Jakarta or Nairobi in much the same way as it does the lives of children on Chicago ’s South Side.
Barack Obama


• A man is not finished when he's defeated; he's finished when he quits.
  Richard M. Nixon


• I care not what others think of what I do, but I care very much about what I think of what I do. That is character!
  Theodore Roosevelt


• I began revolution with 82 men. If I had to do it again, I do it with 10 or 15 and absolute faith. It does not matter how small you are if you have faith and plan of action.
  Fidel Castro


• If the United States of America or Britain is having elections, they don't ask for observers from Africa or from Asia. But when we have elections, they want observers.
  Nelson Mandela


• Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men.
  John F. Kennedy

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