In fact, it was the women in our house who were in the saddle. If men are the gods, women are not only the presidents but all the ministers of the government.
Open government is, within limits, an ideal that we all share. U.S. President Barack Obama endorsed it when he took office in January 2009.
President Reagan was elected on the promise of getting government off the backs of the people and now he demands that government wrap itself around the waists of the people.
Under the doctrine of separation of powers, the manner in which the president personally exercises his assigned executive powers is not subject to questioning by another branch of government.
The government is already into our lives a whole lot more than they should be. If I were president, I'd roll everything back. Everything!
Clinton was a president who used his office, in creative ways, to try to reinvigorate the federal government to benefit the majority.
Instead of cutting waste, the Obama Administration is hurting workers. President Obama should stop protecting wasteful government spending.
This November, with the re-election of President Barack Obama, this generation of Americans will ever expand upon the hope, the truth and the promise of America.
The nation should be able to remove by an orderly constitutional process any president with an unyielding commitment to failed policies and an inability to renew the country's hope.
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.
On taking office, Obama promised the 'most transparent' administration in history; yet his record as president has been anything but transparent.
Once a president gets to the White House, the only audience that is left that really matters is history.
Surveillance changes history. We know this through examples of corrupt presidents like Nixon.
For style and for creating a mood of optimism and hope - Kennedy on that count is as effective as any president the country has had in its history.
Hollywood has a history of raising expectations beyond Washington's reach, of appealing to the very American desire to mythologize political leaders, particularly the president.
I teach at USC, and it's obvious to anyone who teaches college students that they don't cover much modern history and certainly not the modern presidency.
I really think the Patriot Act violates our Constitution. It was, it is, an illegal act. The Congress, the Senate and the president cannot change the Constitution.
It appears that President Obama is making great progress on climate change, he is changing the political climate in the country back to Republican.
Unless there is meaningful change in Syria and an end to the crackdown, President Assad and those around him will find themselves isolated internationally and discredited within Syria.
The death of chief justice Rehnquist and the president's nomination of John Roberts raises the stakes for the court and the American people exponentially.
I happily cling to my guns and my God, even if President Obama thinks that that is a simpleminded thing in his elitist heart.
