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: Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.
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I sincerely ask those watching at home tonight who supported President Bush four years ago: did you really get what you expected from the candidate you voted for? Is our country more united today? Or more divided? Has the promise of compassionate conservatism been fulfilled? Or do those words now ring hollow? For that matter, are the economic policies really conservative at all? For example, did you expect the largest deficits in history, year after year? One right after another? And the loss of more than a million jobs?
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Joshua Micah Marshall :
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With all the efforts now to disassociate President Bush from conservatism, I am starting to believe that conservatism itself — not the political machine, mind you, but the ideology — is heading toward that misty land-over-the-ocean where ideologies go after they've shuffled off this mortal coil. Sort of like the way post-Stalinist lefties used to say, "You can't say Communism's failed. It's just never really been tried." But as it was with Communism, so with conservatism. When all the people who call themselves conservatives get together and run the government, they're on the line for it. Conservative president. Conservative House. Conservative Senate. What we appear to be in for now is the emergence of this phantom conservatism existing out in the ether, wholly cut loose from any connection to the actual people who are universally identified as the conservatives and who claim the label for themselves. We can even go a bit beyond this though. The big claim now is that President Bush isn't a conservative because he hasn't shrunk the size of government and he's a reckless deficit spender. But let's be honest: Balanced budgets and shrinking the size of government hasn't been part of conservatism — or to be more precise, Movement Conservatism — for going on thirty years. The conservative movement and the Republican party are the movement and party of deficit spending. And neither has any claim to any real association with limited or small government. Just isn't borne out by any factual record or political agenda. Not in the Reagan presidency, the Bush presidency or the second Bush presidency. The intervening period of fiscal restraint comes under Clinton.
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Congress has lost its way if we don't hold this President accountable for his actions.
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The thought of being president frightens me. I do not think I want the job.
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The job of the Vice President is to go to weddings and funerals.
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I believe it is the job of a President to confront problems, not pass them on to future Presidents and future generations.
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For the presidency, I don't think it really matters if it's a man or a woman, it has to be the right person for the job
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I never wanted to get out of a place as much as I did to get out of the presidency.
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On a good day, I view the job of president as directing an orchestra. On the dark days, it is more like that of a clutch-engaging the engine to effect forward motion, while taking greater friction.
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As far as the job of President goes, its rewarding and I've given before this group the definition of happiness for the Greeks. I'll define it again: the full use of your powers along lines of excellence. I find, therefore, that the Presidency provides some happiness.
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I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be.
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Flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.
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Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.
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It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes.
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I love deadlines. I love the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.
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Time is an illusion, lunchtime doubly so.
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A common mistake people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.
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Humans are not proud of their ancestors, and rarely invite them round to dinner.
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We talked about how easy it was to make the mistake of anthropomorphising animals, and projecting our own feelings and perceptions on to them, where they were inappropriate and didn't fit. We simply had no idea what it was like being an extremely large lizard, and neither for that matter did the lizard, because it was not self-conscious about being an extremely large lizard, it just got on with the business of being one. To react with revulsion to its behaviour was to make the mistake of applying criteria that are only appropriate to the business of being human.
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I refuse to answer that question on the grounds that I don't know the answer.
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