President Jonathan Quotes

#1. Mr. President, the dedication of 35 percent of all construction contracts to women is really mind blowing to say the least. President Jonathan's benevolence to women is unbelievably phenomenal.

Kema Chikwe

#2. If we should tell ourselves the truth, all things being equal, President Jonathan will be re-elected with minimal stress, because of his sterling performance in the last six years.

Orji Uzor Kalu

#3. The sharp thorn often produces delicate roses.

Ovid

#4. Indeed, one modern President abjured God altogether, ending speeches with a chaste 'Thank you very much.' This was Jimmy Carter, the most genuinely devout President of the postwar period.

Jonathan Rauch

#5. We are even more confident that when President Goodluck Jonathan returns in 2015, women would be talking about 50 percent, no longer 35 percent. As we give him unequivocal, undiluted, unreserved and unlimited support and as we march with him to 2015, PDP women will reach the promised land.

Kema Chikwe

#6. I've said it before: Barack Obama is really the president Richard Nixon always wanted to be. You know, he's been allowed to act unilaterally in a way that we've fought for decades.

Jonathan Turley

#7. American friends of Israel as well as those who understand the grave threat that Iran poses to U.S. interests and security need to face the fact that this president has abandoned them.

Jonathan S. Tobin

#8. I congratulate the outgoing Nigeria President Mr Goodluck Jonathan for his grace in conceding defeat.

Raila Odinga

#9. While Congress saw some need to loosen the standard in the initial days of a war, it wanted the president to comply with FISA in carrying out surveillance in the United States.

Jonathan Turley

#10. The Cosmos is all that is or was or ever will be. Our feeblest contemplations of the Cosmos stir us
there is a tingling in the spine, a catch in the voice, a faint sensation, as if a distant memory, of falling from a height. We know we are approaching the greatest of mysteries.

Carl Sagan

#11. A highwayman is as much a robber when he plunders in a gang as when single; and a nation that makes an unjust war is only a great gang.

Benjamin Franklin

#12. I would like to thank President Goodluck Jonathan for his display of statesmanship in setting a precedent for us that has now made our people proud to be Nigerians wherever they are.

Muhammadu Buhari

#13. Bravery is knowledge of the cowardice of the enemy.

E.W. Howe

#14. Friendship is like peeing on yourself: everyone can see it, but only you get the warm feeling that it brings.

Robert Bloch

#15. Truth be known, President Obama has never been particularly driven by principle. Right after his election, I wrote a column in a few days warning people that even though I voted for Obama, he was not what people were describing him to be. I saw him in the Senate. I saw him in Chicago.

Jonathan Turley

#16. But these trees don't grow impatiently. They move with a grace, with patience, with trust. There is no hurry anywhere else except in your mind. If you really want to be in a state of peace and joy, you will have to unlearn your old habit for achieving things quickly

Osho

#17. Few people know that President Obama has used drone attacks many times more than Bush ever did. Obama's off the charts in terms of drone attack.

Jonathan Turley

#18. Obama is as likely to be impeached as he is to be installed as the next pontiff. And I say that as someone who has testified in Congress that this president has violated federal laws, unconstitutionally appointed various executive-branch officers and improperly transferred money.

Jonathan Turley

#19. I think one of the big questions for many [Bernie] Sanders supporters is, are [Hillary Clinton's] words and what's written in paper going to actually come to pass when she is elected president? That's, I think, the greatest worry for many Sanders supporters.

Jonathan Tasini

#20. No president has come near to rivaling Lincoln as a writer.

Jonathan Raban

#21. The trouble with ghostwriting is that it raises the issue of whether the president is in a state of diminished responsibility for what he says. Does he actually grasp the implications of the words he speaks?

Jonathan Raban

#22. President Obama is so much smarter and a better communicator than members of Congress in either party. The contrast, side by side, is almost ridiculous ...

Jonathan Chait

#23. I think that President Obama is beginning to realize that a lot of his plans have backfired.

Jonathan Krohn

#24. Our President has given symbolic support to the National Day of Prayer but I believe that our nation needs an impassioned call to our collective knees.

Jonathan Falwell

#25. The only book by a modern president that bears serious comparison with Obama's 'Dreams From My Father' is Jimmy Carter's short campaign autobiography, 'Why Not the Best?,' published in 1975.

Jonathan Raban

#26. The president hasn't come after me yet, but we've had other people come after me!

Jonathan Krohn

#27. I happen to agree with many of President Obama's policies, but in our system, it is often as important how you do something as what you do.

Jonathan Turley

#28. I wasn't a very good student in elementary school and had a hard time with reading and writing.

Patricia Polacco

#29. President Obama still places far too much emphasis on relentless testing with standardized exams.

Jonathan Kozol

#30. Now could thou and I rob the thieves and go merrily to London, it would be argument for a week, laughter for a month, and a good jest forever.

William Shakespeare

#31. If it makes you happy
It can't be that bad
If it makes you happy
Then why the hell are you so sad

Sheryl Crow

#32. A horse is dangerous at both ends and uncomfortable in the middle.

Ian Fleming

#33. President Obama's first term in office has been better for intentions than for actual changes in planning and policy. I do believe, and he has several things to this effect, that he would like to provide universal preschool or at least far more preschool for our children.

Jonathan Kozol

#34. As Members of Congress we can now engage with our constituents via online innovations like the Huffington Post, while a small business in rural Oregon can use the Internet to find customers around the world.

Ron Wyden

#35. Mandela once phoned me out of the blue while he was still president, and at first he played with me a bit.

Jonathan Shapiro

#36. The issue of guns, as president [Barack] Obama mentioned, which is particularly assailant in Colorado, a very complicated gun story, and I think a political climate that urges people to take issues into their own hands.

Jonathan Michel Metzl

#37. There are some questions, there are some answers, the simple ones, the most important ones, that cannot be approached or even seen, until we go out looking for something else entirely.

Carrie Newcomer