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Harry S Truman

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Harry S Truman despised settled conventions.
DAVID PIETRUSZA Mr. Gore, I knew Harry Truman, ... I ran against Harry Truman. And Mr. Gore, you are no Harry Truman...
STROM THURMOND But Truman saved the day. He said, 'It's OK, son, so do I,' ... My claim to fame - I went to the bat...
EVAN BAYH If Ralph Nader runs, President Bush is going to be re-elected, and if Ralph Nader doesn't run, P...
ED GILLESPIE Nobody wants to hear that you met Harry Truman... I met Harry Truman... But you know what I mean? No...
JOAN RIVERS The President's post should not be politicised. Once a president is elected, he is above politic...
A. P. J. ABDUL KALAM Any time a president is re-elected, he has a little more political clout to get things done.
EVAN BAYH The governor will run the race he needs to be re-elected. The focus is always on his candidacy, not ...
DAN FEE A president should be approachable; understanding of people's problems and needs; he should be fair ...
ANTHONY T. HINCKS If Ralph Nader runs, President Bush is going to be re-elected, and if Ralph Nader doesn't run, Presi...
ED GILLESPIE We support President Truman's civil rights program.
EUGENIE ANDERSON I think it was absolutely a mistake for President Obama and Harry Reid to force a government shutdow...
TED CRUZ He had more stamina than I will ever have. He came in with Roosevelt in 1932 and served two years un...
HAROLD ICKES I got elected to run the government more efficiently, lower taxes.
PHIL ROE To be elected president, Al Gore needs the economy and the markets firing on all cylinders. Al Gore ...
ETHAN SIEGAL You may think the president is all-powerful, but he is not. He needs a lot of guidance from the Lord...
BARBARA BUSH The government's instinct is to shroud itself in secrecy - to act like the office of a president...
CHARLES KENNEDY When I look at these prices, it's just mind-boggling that our government has done nothing to help pe...
JAMES WARE It is fully unacceptable for the government of Serbia that a man who should be tried for war crimes ...
SRDJAN DJURIC I always go back to Harry Truman: Should we drop an atomic bomb to save 100,000 lives? That's a ...
LEE IACOCCA President Reagan was elected on the promise of getting government off the backs of the people and no...
RALPH NADER I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then adv...
HARRY S TRUMAN 35. God is entitled to a portion of our income—not because He needs it but because we need to give...
JAMES C. DOBSON He's laid down the gauntlet. He, by his own definition, needs to get a bond on the ballot. It's wron...
DARRY SRAGOW He passed the buck to no one. He accepted it in the mold of President Truman. He admitted a lot. He ...
RICHARD SHELBY I was told that President Truman was at times scornful of what he considered the inability of Govern...
DAVID BRUCE Harry Truman, with what he did in dropping and having the guts to drop the bomb in 1944, saved - sav...
BOBBY KNIGHT Richard Nixon is very much a self-made man in the six years prior to his emergence as a national fig...
ROGER MORRIS [The most effective president, he told Forbes magazine 11 months ago, was Harry Truman, because] eve...
RONALD REAGAN The country needs this president to admit that his government failed,
ARTUR DAVIS Freedom of the news media must be subordinated to the overriding needs of Singapore, and to the prim...
LEE KUAN YEW I used to tell my history students that while he was a Democrat, I admired Harry Truman because he t...
PHIL CRANE You can't be elected president without passing though Iowa and bowing down before corn-based eth...
MICHAEL POLLAN A senator can be wrong for 20 years without consequence to the nation, ... But a president, a presid...
DICK CHENEY That did happen. He may have made a connection with Perry, but Truman was ultimately a writer. A wri...
GERALD CLARKE The central bank needs to be able to make policy without short term political concerns.
BEN BERNANKE It may not be a big deal to you and me, ... but this is the first thing Bill Clinton has had to be e...
ARSENIO HALL Everyone says Francois Mitterrand had huge charisma. But before he was president they used to call h...
FRANCOIS HOLLANDE Harry S. Truman had his moods. His birthplace is the only tourist attraction in America where you do...
A. WHITNEY BROWN When Harry Truman threw that bomb, I blessed that guy. We didn't have to go.
HAROLD ROSENBLATT I advised him that the president needs to make clear to the American people, in a way that he did to...
DAVID BONIOR Donald Trump has taken a battering ram to longstanding political norms - the unwritten conventions t...
CASS SUNSTEIN Harry Truman, who was a Bible-believing Christian Zionist, defied the secretary of state he so admir...
ELLIOTT ABRAMS I do not diminish the incredible symbolic importance of a black man getting elected president. But m...
AARON SORKIN When Ronald Reagan was elected president for his first term in 1980, he received strong support from...
STEVE HANKE needs a political transition to make its government responsible and accountable to its people.
ROBERT ZOELLICK I have a fantasy where Ted Turner is elected President but refuses because he doesn't want to give u...
ARTHUR C. CLARKE During a political campaign everyone is concerned with what a candidate will do on this or that ques...
EVERETT DIRKSEN Given that the budget sets government fiscal policy up to the end of 2006, it is only fair that it b...
KARU JAYASURIYA When a machine begins to run without human aid, it is time to scrap it - whether it be a factory or ...
ALEXANDER CHASE When a machine begins to run without human aid, it is time to scrap it - whether it be a factory or ...
ALEXANDER CHASE It's going to be hard for someone like me to run for president.
BOB DOLE Despite its flaws, the American electoral system has produced Lincoln, the two Roosevelts, and Harry...
ROBERT DALLEK He may be president, but he still comes home and swipes my socks.
JOSEPH P. KENNEDY President Bush may believe he can authorize spying on Americans without judicial or congressional ap...
ANTHONY D. ROMERO I think Democrats made a mistake running away from liberalism. Liberalism, uh, Franklin Roosevelt, H...
THEODORE C. SORENSEN First, it's the site where the bodies of the miners were recovered following the Christmas disaster ...
BOB REA I would submit a balanced budget if elected president, and it would be painful.
VIRGIL GOODE In truth, opinion may be taken for understanding; understanding cannot be taken for opinion. How so?...
SAINT BERNARD I not only think he will be re-elected, but he's going to win in the first round. I don't see any ca...
ALFREDO RANGEL Without all of this, ... Jimmy Carter nor Bill Clinton might never have been elected president.
ANDREW YOUNG In today's U.S., it's possible for almost anyone - women, gays, African-Americans, Jews - to...
SALMAN RUSHDIE I have a fantasy where Ted Turner is elected President but refuses because he doesn't want to gi...
ARTHUR C. CLARKE If elected, I would not be the mere president of a party - I would endeavor to act independent of pa...
ZACHARY TAYLOR I am going to build the kind of nation that President Roosevelt hoped for, President Truman worked f...
LYNDON B. JOHNSON I never give them hell. I just tell the truth and they think it's hell. -Harry Truman.
HARRY TRUMAN PEACE IS THE OBJECTIVE TO WAR, BUT THE BLOOD RUNNETH STILL
NATALIE URQUIETA Harry Lange couldn't be a better pick to run Magellan.
JIM LOWELL According to the people who dearly would love to throw him out of office, Barack Obama was elected t...
CHARLIE PIERCE The president and his open border allies may hate the fact that the Constitution gets in the way of ...
PAUL GOSAR Many people may be heartbroken, but not enough to take action.
CRAIG GROESCHEL He's for you and wants to help you be the person He created you to be.
CRAIG GROESCHEL Obama has been perhaps the most partisan President since Truman. He hasn't learned to be civil -...
GROVER NORQUIST I think it's high time that we had a woman president. But I don't want to elect someone just...
LINDA MCMAHON The triggering points are very narrow and restrictive. We're not here to run county government, othe...
GREG STAMM He gave me that opportunity (to be board president) and was supportive. It?s been very difficult wit...
GWEN SEMMENS I realize the voters elected President Obama in 2012, but they also, in 2014, elected enough Republi...
RON JOHNSON There is a disenchantment with the institutions of elected government. In too many countries, people...
COLIN POWELL I think that it's important if you run for President that you have to make those important decis...
BIRCH BAYH Sometimes a political leader needs to be so stubborn that he would not move a little,
YURIKO KOIKE If he ran for president in French Polynesia, he'd probably get elected.
BILL BROWN With the current political setting, you may not always have consistency as the sheriff has to run fo...
CARROLL BURACKER You elected government officials to make decisions and it's about time they started making good ...
BOB RILEY Violence has no constitutional sanction; and every government from the beginning has moved against i...
WILLIAM O. DOUGLAS Violence has no constitutional sanction; and every government from the beginning has moved against i...
WILLIAM ORVILLE DOUGLAS It's not for the president to determine the arrangements between Israel and the Palestinians, an...
REUVEN RIVLIN I may be wrong in that, but not I think in putting the questions. In our modern democracy the govern...
DOUGLAS HURD The idea that America elected a black man to be its president forty years after it declined to allow...
CHARLIE PIERCE As an elected official, I genuinely agree with that statement. It needs to be challenged.
LARRY GOSSETT When I was elected President nobody asked me to negotiate between Israel and Egypt. It was not even ...
JIMMY CARTER But there are advantages to being elected President. The day after I was elected, I had my high scho...
RONALD REAGAN We had a president of the United States who had been out of the country but once before he was elect...
TED TURNER 'The world's wealthiest failed state,' as it has come to be known, Belgium endured 589 d...
TERRY GLAVIN Do I have the courage of being a ruthless man to myself with the complete knowledge on my manner or ...
FEREIDOON YAZDI He knows that if he decides to run for president and qualifies that he has to be above his priestly ...
BILL QUIGLEY At the end of their first years, there are few people who would have predicted that Truman would be ...
ROBERT DALLEK To force oneself to believe and to accept a thing without understanding is political, and not spirit...
GAUTAMA BUDDHA Democracy may not prove in the long run to be as efficient as other forms of government, but it has ...
BILL MOYERS Anyone who thinks that the vice-president can take a position independent of the president of his ad...
HUBERT H. HUMPHREY Truman is now seen as a near-great president because he put in place the containment doctrine booste...
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The President is always abused. If he isn't, he isn't doing anything.
HARRY S TRUMAN If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen.
HARRY S TRUMAN When you have an efficient government, you have a dictatorship.
HARRY S TRUMAN The buck stops here!
HARRY S TRUMAN Ive said many a time that I think the Un-American Activities Committee in the House of Representativ...
HARRY S TRUMAN People are very much wrought up about the Communist bugaboo.
HARRY S TRUMAN They said we were soft, that we would not fight, that we could not win. We are not a warlike nation....
HARRY S TRUMAN I got very well acquainted with Joe Stalin, and I like old Joe! He is a decent fellow. But Joe is a ...
HARRY S TRUMAN The Buck Stops Here
HARRY S TRUMAN Shortly after I was elected, in Nineteen Hundred and Forty-eight, I made up my mind that I would not...
HARRY S TRUMAN Whenever the press quits abusing me I know Im in the wrong pew. I dont mind it because when they thr...
HARRY S TRUMAN The legislative job of the President is especially important to the people who have no special repre...
HARRY S TRUMAN When contemplating General Eisenhower winning the Presidential election, Truman said, Hell sit here,...
HARRY S TRUMAN You know, the greatest epitaph in the country is here in Arizona. Its in Tombstone, Ariz. , and this...
HARRY S TRUMAN There has been a lot of talk lately about the burdens of the Presidency. Decisions that the Presiden...
HARRY S TRUMAN Politics is a fascinating game, because politics is government. It is the art of government.
HARRY S TRUMAN Im proud that Im a politician. A politician is a man who understands government, and it takes a poli...
HARRY S TRUMAN On May 14 I was informed that the Provisional Government of Israel was planning to proclaim a Jewish...
HARRY S TRUMAN A bureaucrat is a Democrat who holds some office that a Republican wants.
HARRY S TRUMAN Whenever you have an efficient government, you have a dictatorship.
HARRY S TRUMAN You can never get all the facts from just one newspaper, and unless you have all the facts, you cann...
HARRY S TRUMAN Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
HARRY S. TRUMAN It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
HARRY S. TRUMAN I never give them hell. I just tell the truth and they think it's hell.
HARRY S. TRUMAN I never give them hell; I just tell them the truth and they think it is hell.
HARRY S. TRUMAN Start slow and taper off.
HARRY S. TRUMAN That government is best which governs least.
HARRY S. TRUMAN I'm proud that I'm a politician. A politician is a man who understands government, and it takes a po...
HARRY S. TRUMAN It is understanding that gives us an ability to have peace. When we understand the other fellow's v...
HARRY S. TRUMAN Sixteen hours ago an American airplane dropped one bomb on Hiroshima.... The force from which the su...
HARRY S. TRUMAN All my life, whenever it comes time to make a decision, I make it and forget about it.
HARRY S TRUMAN In reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they won was over themselves...sel...
HARRY S TRUMAN Any man who has had the job I've had and didn't have a sense of humor wouldn't still be here.
HARRY S TRUMAN But we are only termites on a planet and maybe when we bore too deeply into the planet there'll be a...
HARRY S. TRUMAN The atom bomb was no great decision. It was merely another powerful weapon in the arsenal of righteo...
HARRY S TRUMAN How do you live a long life? Take a two-mile walk every morning before breakfast.
HARRY S TRUMAN Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.
HARRY S TRUMAN I never gave anybody hell! I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.
HARRY S TRUMAN If that's art, I'm a Hottentot!
HARRY S TRUMAN Within the first few months I discovered that being president is like riding a tiger. A man has to k...
HARRY S TRUMAN When a leader is in the Democratic Party he is a boss, and when he is in the Republican Party he is ...
HARRY S TRUMAN A politician is a man who understands government and it takes a politician to run a government. A st...
HARRY S TRUMAN It takes a politician to run a government. A statesman is a politician who's been dead for fifteen y...
HARRY S TRUMAN I always considered statesmen to be more expendable than soldiers.
HARRY S TRUMAN How far would Moses have gone if he had taken a poll in Egypt?
HARRY S TRUMAN The buck stops here.
HARRY S TRUMAN Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
HARRY S. TRUMAN Being a President is like riding a tiger. A man has to keep on riding or he is swallowed.
HARRY S TRUMAN Some of the Presidents were great and some of them weren't. I can say that, because I wasn't one of ...
HARRY S TRUMAN The president is the representative of the whole nation and he's the only lobbyist that all the one ...
HARRY S TRUMAN When you get to be President, there are all those things, the honors, the twenty-one gun salutes, al...
HARRY S TRUMAN All the president is, is a glorified public relations man who spends his time flattering, kissing, a...
HARRY S TRUMAN I would rather have peace in the world than be President.
HARRY S TRUMAN It is understanding that gives us an ability to have peace. When we understand the other fellow's vi...
HARRY S TRUMAN A president either is constantly on top of events or, if he hesitates, events will soon be on top of...
HARRY S TRUMAN We must have strong minds, ready to accept facts as they are.
HARRY S TRUMAN Whenever a fellow tells me he is bipartisan, I know he's going to vote against me.
HARRY S TRUMAN We shall never be able to remove suspicion and fear as potential causes of war until communication i...
HARRY S TRUMAN All my life, whenever it comes time to make a decision, I make it and forget about it.
HARRY S TRUMAN Give me a one-handed economist! All my economists say, On the one hand on the other.
HARRY S TRUMAN We must build a new world, a far better world -- one in which the eternal dignity of man is respecte...
HARRY S TRUMAN Whenever I make a bum decision, I go out and make another one.
HARRY S TRUMAN I always remember an epitaph which is in the cemetery at Tombstone, Arizona. It says: Here lies Jack...
HARRY S TRUMAN Being too good is apt to be uninteresting.
HARRY S TRUMAN Well, I wouldn't say that I was in the great class, but I had a great time while I was trying to be ...
HARRY S TRUMAN Study men, not historians.
HARRY S TRUMAN Whenever a man does the best he can, then that is all he can do.
HARRY S TRUMAN I do not believe there is a problem in this country or the world today which could not be settled if...
HARRY S TRUMAN The human animal cannot be trusted for anything good except en masse. The combined thought and actio...
HARRY S TRUMAN It's a recession when your neighbor loses his job; it's a depression when you lose your own.
HARRY S TRUMAN It isn't important who is ahead at one time or another, in either an election or a horse race.
It...
HARRY S TRUMAN If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen.
HARRY S TRUMAN If you can't convince them; confuse them.
HARRY S TRUMAN I've said many a time that I think the Un-American Activities Committee in the House of Representati...
HARRY S. TRUMAN We shall never be able to remove suspicion and fear as potential causes of war until communication i...
HARRY S. TRUMAN I studied the lives of great men and famous women; and I found that the men and women who got to the...
HARRY S TRUMAN I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then adv...
HARRY S TRUMAN It's a recession when your neighbour loses his job; it's a depression when you lose your own.
HARRY S. TRUMAN I don't give them hell. I just tell the truth and they think it is hell.
HARRY S TRUMAN Take a two-mile walk every morning before breakfast.
HARRY S TRUMAN Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
HARRY S TRUMAN When even one American - who has done nothing wrong - is forced by fear to shut his mind and close h...
HARRY S TRUMAN America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determ...
HARRY S TRUMAN The best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to d...
HARRY S TRUMAN The reward of suffering is experience.
HARRY S TRUMAN A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities and an optimist is one who makes oppo...
HARRY S TRUMAN If you can't convince them, confuse them.
HARRY S TRUMAN In reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they won was over themselves... se...
HARRY S TRUMAN You want a friend in Washington? Get a dog.
HARRY S TRUMAN Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.
HARRY S TRUMAN A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.
HARRY S TRUMAN You can never get all the facts from just one newspaper, and unless you have all the facts, you cann...
HARRY S TRUMAN The United Nations is designed to make possible lasting freedom and independence for all its members...
HARRY S TRUMAN Whenever a fellow tells me he's bipartisan, I know he's going to vote against me.
HARRY S TRUMAN There is nothing new in the world except the history you do not know.
HARRY S TRUMAN Whenever you put a man on the Supreme Court he ceases to be your friend.
HARRY S TRUMAN The atom bomb was no 'great decision.' It was merely another powerful weapon in the arsenal ...
HARRY S TRUMAN Those who want the Government to regulate matters of the mind and spirit are like men who are so afr...
HARRY S TRUMAN Men make history and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership, society stan...
HARRY S TRUMAN Carry the battle to them. Don't let them bring it to you. Put them on the defensive and don'...
HARRY S TRUMAN You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I don't believe in littl...
HARRY S TRUMAN When a fellow tells me he's bipartisan, I know he's going to vote against me.
HARRY S. TRUMAN The Buck Stops Here.
HARRY S. TRUMAN The White House is the finest prison in the world.
HARRY S. TRUMAN I have no desire to crow over anybody or to see anybody eating crow, figuratively or otherwise. We s...
HARRY S TRUMAN This administration is going to be cussed and discussed for years to come.
HARRY S TRUMAN You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belie...
HARRY S TRUMAN If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen.
HARRY S. TRUMAN I never give them hell. I just tell the truth and they think it's hell.
HARRY S TRUMAN Nixon is a shifty-eyed goddamn liar....He's one of the few in the history of this country to run for...
HARRY S TRUMAN Men make history, and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership, society sta...
HARRY S TRUMAN I never did give anybody hell. I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.
HARRY S TRUMAN If you can't convince them, confuse them.
HARRY S TRUMAN We can never tell what is in store for us.
HARRY S TRUMAN How do you live a long life? "Take a two- mile walk every morning before breakfast."
HARRY S. TRUMAN Whenever the press quits abusing me I know I'm in the wrong pew. I don't mind it because when they t...
HARRY S TRUMAN I never did give anybody hell. I just told the truth, and they thought it was hell.
HARRY S TRUMAN All the President is, is a glorified public relations man who spends his time flattering, kissing an...
HARRY S TRUMAN It's a recession when your neighbor loses his job; it's a depression when you lose yours.
HARRY S TRUMAN I never did give them hell. I just told the truth, and they thought it was hell.
HARRY S TRUMAN Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of opposition, it has only on...
HARRY S TRUMAN It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
HARRY S TRUMAN If you cannot convince them, confuse them.
HARRY S TRUMAN I learned that a great leader is a man who has the ability to get other people to do what they don't...
HARRY S TRUMAN I always remember an epitaph which is in the cemetery at Tombstone, Arizona. It says: 'Here lies Jac...
HARRY S TRUMAN Carry the battle to them. Don't let them bring it to you. Put them on the defensive. And don't ever ...
HARRY S TRUMAN Carry the battle to them. Don't let them bring it to you.
HARRY S TRUMAN Conceit is God's gift to little men.
HARRY S TRUMAN I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then adv...
HARRY S TRUMAN If you want to get elected, shake hands with 25, 000 people between and November 7.
HARRY S TRUMAN When a fellow tells me he's bipartisan, I know he's going to vote against me.
HARRY S TRUMAN It is amazing how much you can accomplish when it doesn't matter who gets the credit.
HARRY S TRUMAN carry the battle to them.
HARRY S TRUMAN It sure is hell to be president.
HARRY S TRUMAN Men make history and not the other way around.
HARRY S TRUMAN I was the only calm one in the house. You see I've been shot at by experts.
HARRY S TRUMAN Well, I wouldn't say I was in the 'great' class, but I had a great time while I was trying to be gre...
HARRY S TRUMAN I've had a few setbacks in my life, but I never gave up
HARRY S TRUMAN If I'd known how much packing I'd have to do, I'd have run again.
HARRY S TRUMAN It's plain hokum. If you can't convince 'em, confuse 'em. It's an old political trick. But this time...
HARRY S TRUMAN The best way to give advise to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to d...
HARRY S TRUMAN Why, this fellow don't know any more about politics than a pig knows about Sunday.
HARRY S TRUMAN To me party platforms are contracts with the people
HARRY S TRUMAN A politician is a man who understands government. A statesman is a politician who's been dead for 15...
HARRY S TRUMAN We're going to be buried out here. I like the idea because I may just want to get up some day and st...
HARRY S TRUMAN It is terrible-and I mean terrible-nuisance to be kin to the president of the United States.
HARRY S TRUMAN This is the day we have been waiting for since Pearl Harbor. This is the day when Fascism finally di...
HARRY S TRUMAN When you've done the best you can, you can't do any better
HARRY S TRUMAN The United Nations is designed to make possible lasting freedom and independence for all its members
HARRY S TRUMAN Experience has shown how deeply the seeds of war are planted by economic rivalry and social injustic...
HARRY S TRUMAN If there is one basic element in our Constitution, it is civilian control of the military
HARRY S TRUMAN The only thing new in this world is the history that you don't know
HARRY S TRUMAN The President of the United States hears a hundred voices telling him that he is the greatest man in...
HARRY S TRUMAN The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all.
HARRY S TRUMAN I come to the office each morning and stay for long hours doing what has to be done to the best of m...
HARRY S TRUMAN He wasn't used to being criticized, and he never did get it through his head that's what politics is...
HARRY S TRUMAN Nixon is a shifty-eyed goddamn liar. . . . .He's one of the few in the history of this country to ru...
HARRY S TRUMAN Whenever a fellow tells me he's bipartisan I know he's going to vote against me
HARRY S TRUMAN A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities and an optimist is one who makes oppo...
HARRY S TRUMAN Upon books the collective education of the race depends; they are the sole instruments of registerin...
HARRY S TRUMAN Children and dogs are as necessary to the welfare of the country as Wall Street and the railroads.
HARRY S TRUMAN You can't get rich in politics unless you're a crook.
HARRY S TRUMAN The White House is the finest prison in the world.
HARRY S TRUMAN I had faith in Israel before it was established, I have in it now. I believe it has a glorious futur...
HARRY S TRUMAN To hell with them. When history is written they will be the sons of bitches - not I.
HARRY S TRUMAN You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I don't believe in little pl...
HARRY S TRUMAN The Marine Corps is the Navy's police force and as long as I am President that is what it will remai...
HARRY S TRUMAN Never be afraid to try something new. Remember, amateurs built the ark. Professionals built the Tita...
HARRY S TRUMAN Do you know why they call it 'PMS'? Because 'Mad Cow Disease' was already taken.
HARRY S TRUMAN Everyone has a photographic memory. Some don't have film.
HARRY S TRUMAN Borrow money from a pessimist - they don't expect it back
HARRY S TRUMAN There Are Three Kinds of People - Those Who Can Count and Those Who Can't
HARRY S TRUMAN I used to think I was indecisive, but now I'm not so sure
HARRY S TRUMAN The Marine Corps is the Navy's police force and as long as I am President that is what it will r...
HARRY S TRUMAN Nixon is one of the few in the history of this country to run for high office talking out of both si...
HARRY S TRUMAN The atom bomb was no ''great decision.'' It was merely another powerful weapon in the arsenal of rig...
HARRY S TRUMAN Our conference in 1945 did much more than draft an international agreement among 50 nations. [We] se...
HARRY S TRUMAN Don't hate yourself in the morning. Sleep till noon.
HARRY S TRUMAN I'm not insensitive, I just don't care.
HARRY S TRUMAN I have read your lousy review of Margaret's concert. I've come to the conclusion that you are an eig...
HARRY S TRUMAN The 'C' students run the world.
HARRY S TRUMAN When a leader is in the Democratic party he's a boss; when he's in the Republican party he's a leade...
HARRY S TRUMAN My favorite animal is the mule. He has more horse sense than a horse. He knows when to stop eating -...
HARRY S TRUMAN People are very much wrought up about the Communist bugaboo
HARRY S TRUMAN I have never met you but if I do, you'll need a new nose, a lot of beefsteak for black eyes, and a s...
HARRY S TRUMAN Whenever I make a bum decision, I go out and make another one
HARRY S TRUMAN Richard Nixon is a no good, lying bastard. He can lie out of both sides of his mouth at the same tim...
HARRY S TRUMAN Always be sincere, even if you don't mean it.
HARRY S TRUMAN That precedent should continue-not by a Constitutional amendment but by custom based on the honor of...
HARRY S TRUMAN Start slow and taper off.
HARRY S TRUMAN America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination, and unbeatable determin...
HARRY S TRUMAN I've said many a time that I think the Un-American Activities Committee in the House of Representati...
HARRY S TRUMAN If you want a friend in Washington, get a dog
HARRY S TRUMAN Never kick a fresh turd on a hot day.
HARRY S TRUMAN All my life, whenever it comes time to make a decision, I make it and forget about it
HARRY S TRUMAN Carry the battle to them. Don't let them bring it to you. Put them on the defensive and don't ever a...
HARRY S TRUMAN If I want to be great I have to win the victory over myself... self-discipline.
HARRY S TRUMAN I learned that a great leader is a man who has the ability to get other people to do what they don't...
HARRY S TRUMAN I don't want it torn down. I think it's the greatest monstrosity in America.
HARRY S TRUMAN If I hadn't been President of the United States, I probably would have ended up a piano player in a ...
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