Promoted Comment: Mighty Presidential Quotes

In the comments to a post quoting Obama as saying

“Let’s roll up our sleeves, work together, and try to get something done.”

ConnecticutCompromise [High Praise!] reminded us of other stirring presidential remarks:

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“The buck could stop here.”

“December 7th, 1944. A date which might just go down in infamy.”

“We hold these truths to be possible.”

“A house divided should sit down and talk out their differences.”

“Mr. Gorbachev, would you please try to tear down that wall.”

16 Comments

  1. *Note: and Walrus and No_Mo_Bama had multiple riffs on it too, at the original post.


    Obama motto: “Simper. Fie!”

    Obama vision: “Under my administration, America will be like a suttee on a hill.”

    Obama foreign policy: “Let us ever negotiate out of fear, but let us never fear to negotiate.”

  2. Obama’s creed: the pledge of Allah legions

    Obama’s paean to the media: “Oh! Beautiful! Fore, Specious Guys!”

    Obama’s other song: This Land Is “Yore” Land; This Land Is MY Land!

  3. Of the people, for the people, by the people … who are these “peoples”?

    John Marshall has made his decision, now what?

    A house divided against itself can accommodate two families.

    Cheers

  4. “… And, ah, I want to be clear,
    since the days around December 7th,
    when we in the White House first became aware of this situation,
    a bi-partisan resolution has been undertaken
    that
    as we’ve repeatedly said,
    a state of —
    and I want to emphasize, this is not a war against the Japanese people,
    who I have great respect for —
    war
    waged by an international coalition whose participation we welcome
    has existed
    unilaterally
    between the Empire of Japan
    and, uh,
    the United States
    — which we will end on January 30th . . . “

  5. -“Ask not what your country can do for you, INSIST that it do everything for you.”
    -“A house divided against itself means I must use Executive Powers”
    -“We have met the enemy, and he is us” O.K…it’s Walt Kelley’s Pogo–But it sure sounds like Obama!

  6. “Ask not what your country can do for you, visualize what you might want to do for your country if it wasn’t too difficult.”

    “Ask not what your country can do for you. Claiming ownership of the country is exclusive language which discriminates against immigrants!”

    “Read my teleprompter, dozens of new taxes!”

    “A house divided inevitably uses more energy, and should be avoided.”

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