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Tuesday 16th of April 2024

Presidency By placing presidential nominations in the hands of voters, binding primaries weakened parties' gatekeeping function, potentially eliminating the peer review process and opening the door to outsiders. Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt, How Democracies Die  © 2018 Kwiple.com
Presidency Constitutionally, it is wrong to conceive of the President as simply the highest officer within the Executive branch hierarchy. He alone is the Executive branch. William Barr, apologist for unlimited presidential power © 2020 Kwiple.com
Presidency Donald Trump did not — and does not — recognize any distinction between himself and the office of the presidency. He is it, and it is him. This view is as close a fundamental rejection of American constitutionalism as you can imagine — and it helps explain much of the former president’s behavior in and out of office. It is why he could not abide any opposition to anything he tried to  pursue, why he raged against the “deep state,” why he strained against every limit on his authority, why he rejected the very idea that he could lose the 2020 presidential election and why he decided he could simply take classified documents to his home in Florida. Jamelle Bouie, New York Times, June 23, 2023 © 2023 Kwiple.com
Presidency For presidents, the White House is a kind of prison with butlers. Rich Reilly, Commander in Cheat  © 2019 Kwiple.com
Presidency The greatest presidents  end up on our currency. Donald Trump could end up on our hush money. Stephen Colbert © 2018 Kwiple.com
Presidency The hyper-partisan environment means that any American president will be a symbol with double meaning. She will be an icon of American leadership for half the country and an icon of oppression and illegitimacy for the other half. Symbolism matters. Countries live and die by symbols. No American president of either party, now and for the foreseeable future, can be an icon of unity, only of division. Stephen Marche, The Next Civil War  [2022] © 2022 Kwiple.com
Presidency I began by telling the president that there was a cancer growing on the presidency and if the cancer was not removed that the president himself would be killed by it. John Dean, June 25, 1973 © 2018 Kwiple.com
Presidency Imagine just for a moment, if 9-11 had happened with Donald Trump behind the desk. The first thing he would’ve done was run to the bunker to protect himself. He would’ve put himself first, before the country. And anyone who is unwilling to say that he is unfit to be President of the United States is unfit themselves to be President of the United States. Chris Christie, Windham, NH, January 10, 2024 © 2024 Kwiple.com
Presidency In the United States, anybody can be president. That is the problem. George Carlin © 2019 Kwiple.com
Presidency One word sums up probably the reponsibility of any vice president, and that one word is “to be prepared”. Dan Quayle © 2023 Kwiple.com
Presidency The presidency is a performance. You are not just making decisions, you are also acting out the things people want to believe about their president — that the president is in command, strong, energetic, compassionate, thoughtful, that they don’t need to worry about all that is happening in the world, because the president has it all under control. Whether it is true that Biden has it all under control, it is not true that he seems like he does. Ezra Klein, The Ezra Klein Show, Feb. 16, 2024 © 2020 Kwiple.com
Presidency The president of the United States, on the other hand, is restrained first and foremost by his own ethics and public spirit. What happens if somebody comes to the high office lacking those qualities? David Frum comparing American presidents to British prime ministers, who can be quickly removed from office if they lose Parliament's confidence © 2018 Kwiple.com
Presidency Presidents are not just dependent variables; they are significant independent variables as well. This is consistent with a growing literature on the importance of individual leaders. A president's psychological makeup matters more than ever. Daniel W. Drezner, The Toddler in Chief © 2018 Kwiple.com
Presidency The question I get asked more than any other question: “If you had to do it again, would you have done it?” The answer is, yeah, I think so. Because here's the way I look at it. I have [made] so many rich friends and nobody knows who they are. Donald Trump, on running for, and being, president © 2022 Kwiple.com
Presidency A remarkable fact … is the extent to which presidentialism is a Third World phenomenon.  Matthew Soberg Shugart and John M. Carey, Presidents and Assemblies: Constitutional Design and Electoral Dynamics © 2018 Kwiple.com
Presidency Section Three [of the 14th Amendment] encompasses the office of the Presidency and someone who has taken an oath as President. On thie point, the district court committed a reversible error. Anderson v. Griswold, majority decision, Supreme Court of the State of Colorado  © 2023 Kwiple.com
Presidency A self-coup is well underway in America aleady. The rise of executive power is the rare case of a truly bipartisan trend. The use of executive legislation, by  bypassing Congress, began in earnest with Ronald Reagan, continued under Clinton, expanded under Bush, and became standard under Obama and Trump.  What was once an exception made for cases of national emergency now goes unremarked. Stephen Marche, The Next Civil War  © 2022 Kwiple.com
Presidency Somewhere out in this audience may even be someone who will one day follow my footsteps, and preside over the White House as the president's spouse. I wish him well. Barbara Bush © 2015 Kwiple.com
Presidency These dual imperatives – choosing a popular candidate and keeping out demagogues – may, at times, conflict with each other. What if the people choose a demagogue? This is the recurring tension at the heart of the presidential nomination process, from the founders' era through today. Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt, How Democracies Die  © 2018 Kwiple.com
Presidency We weren't going to know whether you could bring down a presidency with iambic pentameter until somebody tried it. Calvin Trillin, A Heckuva Job:  More of the Bush Administration in Rhyme  © 2017 Kwiple.com
Presidential debates If we want to more realistically show what a candidate might be like as president, there should be ten people on the stage, but only two candidates. And each candidate should have five advisors on all the different policy arenas sitting right behind them … And these advisors should be able to pass notes to the candidate … And, we should give the candidates the questions in ad- vance so that we can get their best, most thoughtful answers – answers that they arrive at with the help of their advisors, exactly the way the would responsibly do their job. Lawrence O'Donnell, The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell, August 1, 2019 © 2019 Kwiple.com
Presidential debates Presidents Don't Debate Title of the Last Word segment on The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell, August 1, 2019 © 2019 Kwiple.com
Presidential debates We're going to continue to have TV debates that serve the purposes of TV, especially commercial TV, rather than the interests of the voters. … The debates are not designed for you. The debates are not designed to enlighten us about who can do the job of the presidency because the debates have absolutely nothing to do with the job of President of the United States. Lawrence O'Donnell, The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell, August 1, 2019 © 2019 Kwiple.com
Presidential harassment Yes, presidential harassment – it's like sexual harassment, only Republicans take it seriously. Stephen Colbert, responding to Trump's complaint that Democratic investigations of him are “presidential harassment” © 2019 Kwiple.com
 
Presidential immunity from criminal prosecution I think it’s paradoxical to say that his constitutional duty to take care that the laws be faithfully executed allows him to violate criminal law. Karen LeCraft Henderson, a judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, responding to a claim by Trump's lawyers that presidents cannot be criminally prosecuted for official acts performed while they were in office once they have left it, unless they had been impeached and convicted for the acts before leaving it © 2024 Kwiple.com