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I never dreamed about being President, I wanted to be Willie Mays.

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Rituals, anthropologists will tell us, are about transformation. The rituals we use for marriage, baptism or inaugurating a president are as elaborate as they are because we associate the ritual with a major life passage, the crossing of a critical threshold, or in other words, with transformation.

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Oh, if only I could be President and Congress, too, just for ten minutes.

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ADMINISTRATION, n. An ingenious abstraction in politics, designed to receive the kicks and cuffs due to the premier or president. A man of straw, proof against bad-egging and dead-catting.

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Nobody has ever expected me to be President. In my poor, lean, lank face, nobody has ever seen that any cabbages were sprouting out.

6 years ago

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We need an energy bill that encourages consumption.

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And I, unfortunately, have been to too many disasters as president.

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Hunger, disease and poverty can lead to global instability and leave a vacuum for extremism to fill. So instead of just managing poverty, we must offer nations and people a pathway out of poverty. And as president I've made development a pillar of our foreign policy, alongside diplomacy and defense.

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We may switch presidents, but we`re just going to switch legs and keep on marching.

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While President, I have been President - emphatically.

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I'm the only president who really put it out in the State of the Union and was very specific about how I felt we ought to do it.

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I love Obama. He's my favorite president of all time. I have a giant picture in my apartment in New York that is of his Chicago Tribune cover, Mr. President.

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As president of the United States, I don't bluff.

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One thing you learn in this job [being US President] is that even if something's not your fault, you're still responsible. And that's how it should be.

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There's a reason why the NRA's not here. They're just down the street. And since this is the main reason they exist, you'd think that they'd be prepared to have a debate with a president.

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Freedom is not a gift which can be enjoyed save by those shown themselves worthy of it.

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No other President ever enjoyed the Presidency as I did.

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Ours is not the first generation to understand the dire need for health reform. And I am not the first president to take up this cause, but I am determined to be the last.

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The president and the executive branch are always going to have greater latitude and greater authority when it comes to protecting America because sometimes you just have to respond quickly and not everything that is a danger can be publicized and be subject to open debate, but there have to be some guardrails.

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I have always said I would not have been President had it not been for my experience in North Dakota.

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