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"We need a president who's fluent in at least one language."-- Buck Henry
In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.-- Adlai Stevenson
In America the President reigns for four years, and Journalism governs forever and ever.-- Oscar Wilde
"Only kings, presidents, editors, and people with tapeworms have the right to use the editorial 'we'."-- Mark Twain
Hermits have no peer pressure.
Anybody that wants the presidency so much that he would spend two years campaigning and organizing for it should not be trusted with the office.
"To announce that there must be no criticism of the president, or that we are to stand by the president right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public."-- Theodore Roosevelt
The public seems incapable of distinguishing between your garden variety idiot and your genuine lunatic. It is the same confusion the public has had over the last five Presidents.-- Mark Leeper
"Americans have different ways of saying things. They say 'elevator', we say 'lift' ... they say 'President', we say 'stupid psychopathic git'...."-- Alexi Sayle
"Ah," said the president [Reagan] with great lucidity, "It's true we shipped weapons to Iran, but they were defensive weapons."
If the man had a brain, he'd play with it.-- Molly Ivins
"All the president is, is a glorified public relations man who spends his time flattering, kissing, and kicking people to get them to do what they are supposed to do anyway."-- Harry S. Truman
Regrettable Necessity, n:
An avoidable atrocity. The term is often employed by presidents and prime ministers when announcing bombings of civilian targets and invasions of small countries.-- Chaz Bufe (The Devil's Dictionaries)
America isn't easy. America is advanced citizenship. You've got to want it bad, because it's going to put up a fight. It's going to say, "You want free speech? Let's see you acknowledge a man whose words make your blood boil; who's standing center stage, advocating at the top of his lungs that which you would spend a lifetime opposing at the top of yours. You want to claim that this land is the land of the free? Then the symbol of your country cannot just be a flag. The symbol also has to be one of its citizens exercising his right to burn that flag in protest."
Now show me that. Defend that. Celebrate that in your classrooms. Then you can stand up and sing about the land of the free.-- President Andrew Shepard (The American President)
"If hackers ran the world, there'd be no war. Lots of accidents, maybe."
Coincidence happens.
Because these moments, as precious as they are, they're evil when they're gone.
You measure democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists.-- Abbie Hoffman
"It's gone wrong."
Professor George Eisenkopf, resident nuclear genius at the University of Chicopee Falls, Iowa, and the State Department's leading authority on civilian atomic power, scratched his nose with the plastic coffee-stirrer he'd been given on the plane.
"It isn't working properly," he added, in case there were any laymen present.-- Tom Holt ("Odds and Gods")
Arachnoleptic fit, n: The frantic dance performed just after you accidentally walk through a spider web.
Nana is now 99, in a nursing home, healthy, and still as sharp as a tack (not the best situation when you're surrounded by the demented, but she makes do).
-- Steve Dyer
Ah, then she'd have no problem relating to Usenet...-- David Preston
"It is no coincidence that in no known language does the phrase 'as pretty as an airport' exist."-- Douglas Adams
"We're kind of taught how to be unpowerful. You're taught how to be distracted. You're taught how to not focus. You know, it's really a hoot how great it is. I kind of think it's a conspiracy, not the President. He's like, they're just like too sophomoric for this concept. I mean beyond that, you see, it's really here where things change. It's here with you people. If you can't be controlled the way you think, the way you express, what you hold back. I'm really interested in what you don't tell me. It's the things that we hold back from ourselves."-- Tori Amos
Unfortunately, as Usenet gets out to the masses it will become diluted.
-- Nelson Minar
*Again*!?!?
-- David Preston
I think it's adorable that our fans call me Shirl. It's preferrable to asshole.-- Shirley Manson
"We are at times too ready to believe that the present is the only possible state of things."-- Marcel Proust
Peace is not the absence of war. Peace is the presence of a system for resolving conflicts before war becomes necessary. War never creates peace.