President Nelson Quotes

#1. Former South Africa President Nelson Mandela announced Tuesday he will begin writing his autobiography. He spent 25 years in prison before being elected to public office. In America, we do it the other way around.

Argus Hamilton

#2. George W. Bush in Washington decided that Nobel Peace Prize winner and ex-president Nelson Mandela could probably be taken off the U.S. list of terrorists).

Jonas Jonasson

#3. Difference is the beginning of synergy.

Stephen Covey

#4. Someone gave me a piece of advice once, my first manager Lucien Hold. He said, 'If you do stand-up about your own life, no one can steal it.' I always thought that was the best piece of advice.

Mike Birbiglia

#5. Wesco had a market capitalization of $40 million when we bought it [in the early 1970s]. It's $2 billion now. It's been a long slog to a perfectly respectable outcome - not as good as Berkshire Hathaway or Microsoft, but there's always someone in life who's done better.

Charlie Munger

#6. As President, I would work toward international creation of a new world order.

Nelson Rockefeller

#7. Truth and justice are commonly found in the personality of the paranoid delusional

Russian, Unknown

#8. President Obama compared himself to Gandhi and Nelson Mandela in the struggle to bring about change. The comparison is flawed. They spent years in jail before taking political power, while politicians from Chicago do it the other way around.

Argus Hamilton

#9. I wanna be selective ... very selective. Right now, hip-hop's very boring to me. It's no excitement.

Timbaland

#10. Any time the president talks, you listen.

Ben Nelson

#11. Anytime the president visits Nebraska its good for Nebraska.

Ben Nelson

#12. Whether it is Obamacare, the stimulus, Wall Street bailouts, the food safety bill - on vote after vote, Bill Nelson has chosen to side with Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi, and President Obama over the people of Florida.

Adam Hasner

#13. Around the world, Gandhi, Nelson Mandela
what they did was hard. It takes time. It takes more than a single term. It takes more than a single president. It takes more than a single individual.

Barack Obama

#14. I didn't need more fame or money. I needed more heart.

Kenny Chesney

#15. You know you can't just run and shoot people in the knee-caps with double barreled shotgun 'cause you're pissed at them.

Eddie Murphy

#16. I never considered the working class anything other than something to get out of.

Dalton Trumbo

#17. You would have thought that after 9/11 the president would have finished the job in Afghanistan, and kept the focus on capturing Bin Laden and his al-Qaeda deputies, but he and his team gave top priority to their original plan to invade Iraq.

Bill Nelson

#18. To play Holland, you have to play the Dutch.

Ruud Gullit

#19. I made a mistake by being ejected from the presidency. Next time, I will choose a Cabinet which will allow me to be life President.

Nelson Mandela

#20. Nelson Mandela was an outstanding leader and a mentor for me. I was in South Africa at the time he was released. I was in South Africa when he was inaugurated as the first president.

Gail Kelly

#21. When George Washington was elected president, there was no national vote.

Ben Nelson

#22. I heard somebody say, 'Where's (Nelson) Mandela?' Well, Mandela's dead. Because Saddam killed all the Mandelas.
George W. Bush, on the former South African president, who is still very much alive, Washington, D.C., Sept. 20, 2007

George W. Bush

#23. If we are taken all together, we might muster some courage, but from the previous evidence it is likely that we will be taken separately.

Edna O'Brien

#24. In my country we go to prison first and then become President.

Nelson Mandela

#25. As president, I watched in wonder as Nelson Mandela had the remarkable capacity to forgive his jailers following 26 years of wrongful imprisonment - setting a powerful example of redemption and grace for us all.

George H. W. Bush