Quotes tagged ‘Presidents’

“I don't feel an obligation to give everyone a hard time, but when they're important people, it's fun. I've met every president since Gerald Ford. When you go in the reception line and they announce your name, they all look at me the same way. They all go, Oh, nooooooo! You can see it in their eyes.…”

— Don Rickles, esquire.com

“President: Here's the adventure: some kind of alien goo-ga has infested the Kennedy Sex Tunnels. I want it hunted down and taken out. Morty: Kennedy Sex Tunnels? President: Naturally you'll forget you saw them, along with, in order of national embarrassment: the Truman Cocaine Lounge, the McKinley H…”

— Justin Roiland, Dan Harmon, Morty Smith (voice), Justin Roiland, imdb.com

“Now, history judges every leader, every president, by how he or she treats his or her own people.”

— Frank Pugliese, Melissa James Gibson, Claire Underwood, Robin Wright, imdb.com

“Like America's leaders throughout history, the Founders had vigorous sex drives and vibrant sex lives that played a major role in building our nation.”

— Larry Flynt, amazon.com

“Today we tend to imagine the people who built the early Republic to have been as dignified and composed as the historic documents they left behind. The Founders were indeed noble and gracious, but they were also earthy, lusty and as interested in sex and sex scandal as we are today.”

— Larry Flynt, amazon.com

“Traditionally, historians have been squeamish about examining the sex lives of presidents because they do not consider private affairs to be a worthy subject of 'serious' history. The result is that our leaders' lives have been so whitewashed that people think Thomas Jefferson and Abraham Lincoln we…”

— Larry Flynt, amazon.com

“Franklin Roosevelt still surrounded himself with a lot of strong women. I think that they in many ways helped give him the strength that he needed to get us through the Depression and get us through World War II.”

— Larry Flynt, pbs.org

“America is indeed a place where all things are possible: that is its greatest promise and, perhaps, its gravest peril.”

— David Remnick, newyorker.com

“For us to have had this opportunity and to be able to make this much change, as much as we wish that we could have gotten everything done, it’s remarkable.”

— Barack Obama, newyorker.com

“If you were a President you'd be Babe-raham Lincoln.”

— Pickup Lines!, twitter.com