Bill Clinton told me that when he was 14, he shook John Kennedy's hand, and that inspired him to be president.
Make decisions about the President's personal security. He can overrule you, but don't ask him to be the one to counsel caution.
See that the President, the Cabinet and staff are informed. If cut out of the information flow, their decisions may be poor, not made, or not confidently or persuasively implemented.
Many voted in 2008 with the desire to see racism and racists humiliated by having a qualified black man elected president.
On taking office in 2009, U.S. President Barack Obama put Israeli settlements at the center of U.S. policy in the Middle East.
President Bush was disgusted by the Assad regime's oppression of the Syrian people as well as its support for terrorism, interference in Lebanon, and encouragement of jihadist attacks on Americans in Iraq.
Certainly there are worse sins than doing everything possible to make your presidency matter.
I think anybody who wants to be president has to be a politician, but I would like to find somebody who's coming from a loving place instead of a political place.
So the American government lied to the Native Americans for many, many years, and then President Clinton lied about a relationship, and everyone was surprised! A little naïve, I feel!
That's the premise of the Saudi Arabians. He's holding the president's hand with one. In the other hand, he's got his hand in the pocket of American consumers.
President Obama and I recognize the importance of strong economic engagement for the continued growth of both the Philippines and the United States.
So that was Reagan's political problem. As a rancher in California, he was an environmentalist himself. But the President of the United States doesn't control everything that happens in Washington.
I consider it part of my responsibility as President of the United States to fight against negative stereotypes of Islam wherever they appear.
Since I'm the president and Democrats have controlled the House and the Senate, it's understandable that people are saying, you know, 'What have you done?'
The violation of press freedoms has been egregious under this administration, even as the press fetes President Obama as an honest and effective commander-in-chief.
President Obama himself has attributed the legitimacy of the Jewish State not to its historic identity as Jewish territory, but to the Holocaust.
As a Member of the CBC, I will fight tooth and nail to increase funding for programs, such as Ryan White, that were flat funded in the President's budget.
When my father announced his campaign for president on Oct. 3, 1991, I had already cast my vote in favor of his candidacy.
Even if you only counted the votes that actually made it through the hoops in order to be cast, the president was really Al Gore.
It's been years, decades, since a president has lost a major trade initiative. That would be bad headlines.
I think we have very steady records of President Putin, who inherited the country with democratic values.
