All Quotes

The present level of armaments could be taken as the starting point. It could be stipulated in an international treaty that these armaments should be simultaneously and uniformly reduced by a certain proportion in all countries.
‐‐ Ludwig Quidde

The present moment, if you think about it, is the only time there is. No matter what time it is, it is always now.
‐‐ Marianne Williamson

The present moment is changing so fast that we often do not notice its existence at all. Every moment of mind is like a series of pictures passing through a projector. Some of the pictures come from sense impressions. Others come from memories of past experiences or from fantasies of the future.
‐‐ Henepola Gunaratana

The present moment is nice but it does not last. Living in it is like waiting in a junction town for the morning limited; the junction may be interesting but some day you will have to leave it and you do not know where the limited will take you.
‐‐ Bruce Catton

The present practice is to impress one's own discoveries, opinions and principles on the child by constantly directing his actions. The last thing to be realised by the educator is that he really has before him an entirely new soul, a real self whose first and chief right is to think over the things with which he comes in contact.
‐‐ Ellen Key

The present reeks of mediocrity and the atom bomb.
‐‐ Rene Magritte

The present structure of rewards in high schools produces a response on the part of an adolescent social system which effectively impedes the process of education.
‐‐ James S. Coleman

The present system of protecting NHS patients was a bit of a shambles.
‐‐ Frank Dobson

The present time has one advantage over every other - it is our own.
‐‐ Charles Caleb Colton

The present time, together with the past, shall be judged by a great jovialist.
‐‐ Nostradamus

The present times require the vigor and the activity of the prime of life; but I feel the increasing infirmities of age to such a degree, that I am conscious I cannot serve you to advantage.
‐‐ Christopher Gadsden

The present U.N. must be annihilated by our power. That is the stage for Communists. We must make a new U.N.
‐‐ Sun Myung Moon

The present was an egg laid by the past that had the future inside its shell.
‐‐ Zora Neale Hurston

The present will not long endure.
‐‐ Pindar

The presentation of the Golden Badge of the Movement is the highest honor the Third Reich has to offer.
‐‐ Hjalmar Schacht

The presentations and conceptions of the average man of the world are formed and dominated, not by the full and pure desire for knowledge as an end in itself, but by the struggle to adapt himself favourably to the conditions of life.
‐‐ Ernst Mach

The preservation of health is a duty. Few seem conscious that there is such a thing as physical morality.
‐‐ Herbert Spencer

The preservation of our national security and the laws that define us as the United States of America demand that we understand the intersection of the two - indeed, how they reinforce one another.
‐‐ John O. Brennan

The preservation of peace and the guaranteeing of man's basic freedoms and rights require courage and eternal vigilance: courage to speak and act - and if necessary, to suffer and die - for truth and justice; eternal vigilance, that the least transgression of international morality shall not go undetected and unremedied.
‐‐ Haile Selassie

The preserve of ambition and folly in pursuit of illusion, or delusion.
‐‐ Derek Jarman

The presidency awed me, but presidents do not. Perhaps I have always expected too much of them, but I believe that when they reach the highest office in the land, they should live up to the greatest honor that can come to a person in American political life. Some have stood the test better than others.
‐‐ Helen Thomas

The presidency has made every man who occupied it, no matter how small, bigger than he was; and no matter how big, not big enough for its demands.
‐‐ Lyndon B. Johnson

The presidency has many problems, but boredom is the least of them.
‐‐ Richard M. Nixon

The presidency is an independent office and the Irish people whom I appreciate so much and I take with such responsibility have given a very clear mandate on a very clear set of ideas to me, as the ninth president.
‐‐ Michael D. Higgins

The presidency is more than a popularity contest.
‐‐ Al Gore

The presidency is not an entry-level electoral job.
‐‐ John Podhoretz

The presidency is not an office job.
‐‐ Jakaya Kikwete

The presidency is not an office job. If I only sit in the office in Dar es Salaam, I'm not running the country. I visit the country to inspect development programmes, to inspect activities, to see how things are going, how the government agenda is being implemented, what are the teething issues.
‐‐ Jakaya Kikwete

The presidency is the most visible thread that runs through the tapestry of the American government. More often than not, for good or for ill, it sets the tone for the other branches and spurs the expectations of the people.
‐‐ Mike Pence

The presidency made John Adams an old man long before there was television. As early as the nation's first contested presidential election, with Adams and Jefferson running to succeed Washington, you had a brutal, ugly, vicious campaign that was divisive and as partisan as anything we're experiencing today.
‐‐ R. J. Cutler

The presidency of the United States is an incredible thing. You have an ability to effectuate change at the highest level.
‐‐ Ivanka Trump

The presidency of the United States is not some crown to be passed between two families.
‐‐ Martin O'Malley

The President also talked at length about how well the American economy is doing. Apparently, he got his information on this topic from his millionaire supporters. For the average working family, these are trying economic times.
‐‐ Jose Serrano

The president and his open border allies may hate the fact that the Constitution gets in the way of their political agenda, but it's up to Congress to take bold action and stop this lawlessness.
‐‐ Paul Gosar

The President and I agree that Social Security needs to be preserved so that we can ensure that all Americans receive the retirement benefits they've been promised. But we disagree as to how best to fix the system.
‐‐ Steve Israel

The president and I had much more important stuff to talk about than Donald Trump. I've never discussed Mr. Trump with the president of the United States.
‐‐ Eric Schneiderman

The president and I sat down in the Oval Office, and he expressed very clearly that what he wants from me is my best professional military advice.
‐‐ David Petraeus

The president and Republicans in Congress have repeatedly promised to revisit Social Security privatization after November. But Americans have already said, loud and clear, that they don't want Social Security to be privatized or dismantled.
‐‐ Jim Clyburn

The president and the administration had a duty to defend the Defense of Marriage Act, but powerful constituencies of the president did not want the president to defend it. And unfortunately, politics trumped duty.
‐‐ Trent Franks

The President and the Democrats on Congress have exploited the financial crisis to advance their socialist big government tax, spend and borrow agenda.
‐‐ Bradley A. Blakeman

The president appoints the judges. Your lives and your children's lives can change by all of these appellate court judges who will be appointed who will reinterpret laws, and things can change.
‐‐ Johnnie Cochran

The president can't succeed without Congress, and Congress can't succeed without the president. The image of one depends on the image of another. It is not a zero-sum game.
‐‐ John Quelch

The president, clearly as a result of the war and the afterglow of the war, is in a time of great attention.
‐‐ Bob Graham

The president deserves someone who can block for his policies.
‐‐ Judd Gregg

The President didn't offer any clarity in his latest speech about what he would do to tackle our nation's debt before it tackles us and it's still not clear how he'll keep Medicare from going bankrupt. One thing is clear though, Barack Obama isn't interested in governing or putting forward solutions to fix our nation's problems.
‐‐ Paul Ryan

The president does not have any obligation to make a consensus appointment here. What the president's obligation is, is to pick a judicial conservative, and I believe that's what he's gonna do.
‐‐ Jay Alan Sekulow

The president doesn't order the military to seize political opponents. He doesn't order his intelligence community to lie about national security for political purposes. He uses the military or intelligence communities to protect the United States and our citizens, not to help him win elections.
‐‐ Kathleen Troia McFarland

The President doesn't ring people out of the blue, so you know you've done something well.
‐‐ Tim Howard

The president - every president - works for us. We don't work for him. We sometimes lose track of this, or rather get the balance wrong. Respect is due and must be palpable, but now and then you have to press, to either force them to be forthcoming or force them to reveal that they won't be.
‐‐ Peggy Noonan

The president feels not only do we need to change these rogue regimes, but even our friendly allies, who really basically have, sort of, benign dictatorships, need to get with the program if they want to have long-term security and prosperity from terrorism.
‐‐ Mitch McConnell