Quote by Jimmy Breslin
The office of president is a bastardized thing, half royalty and h

The office of president is a bastardized thing, half royalty and half democracy, that nobody knows whether to genuflect or spit. – Jimmy Breslin

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The only reason this country is different from any place else is that once in a great while, this huge, snobbish, generally untalented news reporting business stops covering stories of interest only to itself and actually serves the public. – Jimmy Breslin

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When you stop drinking, you have to deal with this marvelous personality that started you drinking in the first place. – Jimmy Breslin

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Id rather be right than President. – Henry Clay

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You really have to experience the feeling of being with the president in the oval office. … Its a disease I came to call Ovalitis. – John Dean

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Under a Presidential government, a nation has, except at the electing moment, no influence; it has not the ballot-box before it; its virtue is gone, and it must wait till its instant of despotism again returns. – Walter Bagehot

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It is of the nature of war to increase the executive at the expense of the legislative authority. – Alexander Hamilton

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I heard the teardrop hit my pillow before I even knew I was crying. – Terri Guillemets

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What is good? All that heightens the feeling of power, the will to power, power itself in man. – Friedrich Nietzsche

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