Has President Bush exceeded his constitutional authority or acted illegally in authorizing wiretaps without a warrant? Benjamin Franklin would not have thought so.
President Bush bestowed the Congressional Medal on myself.
We have come to expect campaigns to be mean and stupid and politicians to be unresponsive, self-seeking and for sale to the highest bidder. We make jokes about our vice president, and all we ask of a president is that he be likeable. We seem to have given up on the Pentagon's corrupt use of our tax dollars.
I picked Harvard because it was in a big city, and a lot of girls' schools were nearby. And I liked President Kennedy, who went to Harvard.
The President has been a big proponent of the public option since the campaign.
If I wanted to be president, and if I were ever serious about it, the biggest thing I would have going for me is that I'm a conservative.
Bill Clinton is the greatest president of my lifetime. Period.
I am relatively sure, from conversations that I had with former president Bill Clinton, that George Bush seldom called upon him for advice.
To invent a war means that you've become a wartime president, and you can suspend much if not all of the Bill of Rights.
What chance does a five-foot-seven billionaire Jew who's divorced really have of becoming president?
I do not believe any president can bind a successor president to give up his fundamental role as protector of the country.
President Obama has offered a plan with 4 trillion dollars in debt reduction over a decade, with two and a half dollars of spending reductions for every one dollar of revenue increases, and tight controls on future spending. It's the kind of balanced approach proposed by the bipartisan Simpson-Bowles commission.
The terrorist action of 9/11 gave birth to President Obama's entry to the White House. Not directly, but indirectly.
To be fair, Republicans are not blameless. The deficit began to spiral out of control on President Bush's watch.
The biggest blunder in the history of this country was when President Truman pulled General MacArthur out of China.
They say President Wilson has blundered. Perhaps he has, but I notice he usually blunders forward.
If I were to make public these tapes, containing blunt and candid remarks on many different subjects, the confidentiality of the office of the president would always be suspect.
There's a reason why, when Reagan became president, he started getting rid of regulations, and we had a booming economy.
That a district judge would overrule the president of the United States on a matter of border security in wartime is absurd.
The President has only 190 million bosses. The Vice President has 190 million and one.