Second Term Quotes

#1. At the start of his second term, one wonders less about Obama's fitness than his willingness: Why doesn't he do more to build and maintain the relationships required to govern in era of polarization?

Ron Fournier

#2. I'm not going to rule out running for a second term. But, I think you have to be psychologically prepared to walk away from the job after four years. It's the only way that you cannot be influenced by those special interests.

Dick Murphy

#3. If history is a guide, a victory for Obama means he faces the prospect of a second term dogged by scandal or inertia.

Ron Fournier

#4. My first term I sang Al Green ... in my second term, I'm going with Young Jeezy .

Barack Obama

#5. Any president's second term ends up being quite messy. It never goes quite according to plan.

Armando Iannucci

#6. As the President reviewed the state of the union and unveiled his second-term agenda, he fell short of adequately explaining how he intends to set America back on the course of fiscal responsibility and secure the fiscal health of the nation.

Ron Kind

#7. He was a great president in his first term; in his second term, he wasn't the same Grover Cleveland he was to begin with ... Cleveland reestablished the presidency by being not only a chief executive but a leader.

Harry S. Truman

#8. A disturbing prospect looms before us as Americans consider the possibility of a second term for President Barack Obama. Millions of conservatives who revere the Constitution, with its guarantees of freedom and limited government, have watched with alarm as the campaign season has unfolded.

James Dobson

#9. By the time a second term rolls around, the illusions about a president have largely evaporated.

Robert Dallek

#10. Donald Trump said that if President Obama releases his birth certificate, Trump will release his tax return. Obama said he won't run for a second term if Trump releases that thing on his head.

Conan O'Brien

#11. If Ralph Nader runs, President Bush is going to be re-elected, and if Ralph Nader doesn't run, President Bush is going to be re-elected. We're going to run on the president's strong and principled leadership and his positive agenda for a second term.

Ed Gillespie

#12. Barack Obama won a second term but no mandate. Thanks in part to his own small-bore and brutish campaign, victory guarantees the president nothing more than the headache of building consensus in a gridlocked capital on behalf of a polarized public.

Ron Fournier

#13. So far the changes in the president in his second term have been mainly of a rhetorical nature.

Brent Scowcroft

#14. At the end of their first years, there are few people who would have predicted that Truman would be elected in 1948 or that Reagan would get a second term. It's always premature to make some kind of categorical judgment after the first year in office.

Robert Dallek

#15. Presidents generally do what they are good at in their first four years, then spend their second term responding to the agendas imposed upon them by events.

Dick Morris

#16. By the end of my second term, we will have the first permanent base on the moon, and it will be American.

Newt Gingrich

#17. On the 26th of December of last year, I took office for my second term as prime minister. And it is the first time ever since then-Prime Minister Shigeru Yoshida, during the occupation period, that a prime minister is taking this position for the second time with a number of years in between.

Shinzo Abe

#18. I absolutely think that David Cameron should stay, whatever the result of the referendum, and I hope that he will stay for the full second term which he was elected to serve.

Michael Gove

#19. You know I think the president has to really focus on getting elected to a second term in 2012. And I need to focus on making sure I'm accountable to the people of Missouri.

Claire McCaskill

#20. After four years as Administrator of the SBA, I have let President Obama know that I will not be staying for a second term. I will stay on until my successor is confirmed to ensure a smooth and seamless transition.

Karen Mills

#21. Nathan Deal brings the experience, maturity and track record to ensure that Georgia continues to be a great place to live, work and raise a family. That's why he has my support for a second term as governor of this great state.

Karen Handel

#22. She's a charming middle-aged lady with a face like a bucket of mud and if she has washed her hair since Coolidge's second term I'll eat my spare tyre, rim and all.

Raymond Chandler

#23. I'm confident President Obama will continue his unambiguous commitment to the Jewish state in his second term.

Ed Koch

#24. I became a Republican in the summer of 1972. I was involved in running President Nixon's re-election campaign in California and became part of his administration at the start of his second term.

Ed Rollins

#25. The second [presidential] term changes, and I think that John F. Kennedy certainly ran on that and he knew that second term would give him oxygen, and he needed it. Unfortunately, he didn't get there.

Oliver Stone

#26. I did it for you. I took in a pint of bourbon with me. She's a charming middle-aged lady with a face like a bucket of mud and if she has washed her hair since Coolidge's second term, I'll eat my spare tire, rim and all.

Raymond Chandler

#27. We've had periods of meanness in American politics. Actually, the dawn of partisan division in America was basically in George Washington's second term, when it was obvious that he would be the first and only consensus president.

William J. Clinton

#28. I remember the mentoring experiences of some teachers that I had, like a second term home room teacher in public school that really was very helpful to me.

Sanford I. Weill

#29. I'd be surprised if Ronald Reagan doesn't run again. To us it's a second term. To him it's a double feature.

Robert Orben

#30. I never believed that surrendering the executive power should be a condition of getting the second term. The second term should stand on its own feet.

Jim Gilmore

#31. President Obama vowed in his State of the Union address to make assisting domestic manufacturers a top priority for his second term.

Karen Mills

#32. Love it or hate it, Obamacare is the law of the land. It was passed by Congress, signed into law by President Obama, declared constitutional by the U.S. Supreme Court and ratified by a majority of Americans, who reelected the president for a second term.

Hank Johnson

#33. Believe me when I say that Bill Clinton's second term will be good for business. My business.

Mark Russell

#34. In the last 100 years only Presidents George H.W. Bush, Jimmy Carter and Gerald Ford lost their bids for reelection. President Lyndon Johnson did not run for a second term.

Juan Williams

#35. I guess the second-term team is not quite as adoring as the first.

Peggy Noonan

#36. The first term of the Clinton administration was very jolly. Everybody was running around meeting people and of course, in the second term, everyone went down the black hole, which also happened at the end of the Reagan administration.

Sally Quinn

#37. Enough Americans saw fit to give president Obama a second term. I don't think there will be many people keeping their Romney/Ryan bumper stickers on their cars.

Henry Rollins

#38. Perhaps we should wait until his second term begins before carving Barack Obama's face in Mount Rushmore. Is that asking too much?

Ron Fournier

#39. As I prepare for my second term as Secretary-General, I am thinking hard about how we can meet the expectations of the millions of people who see the U.N.'s blue flag as a banner of hope. We have to continue our life-saving work in peacekeeping, human rights, development and humanitarian relief.

Ban Ki-moon

#40. Communism
the first expression of the social nature
is the first term of social development
the thesis; property, the reverse of communism, is the second term
the antithesis. When we have discovered the third term, the synthesis, we shall have the required solution.

Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

#41. President Obama gave a big speech on climate change. He believes global warming is getting worse because apparently he's sweating a lot more during his second term

Jay Leno

#42. If George W. Bush is given a second term, and retains a Republican Congress and a compliant federal judiciary, he and his allies are likely to embark on a campaign of political retribution the likes of which we haven't seen since Richard Nixon.

Paul Begala

#43. All that first term, lip service to gun owners is just part of a massive Obama conspiracy to deceive voters and hide his true intentions to destroy the Second Amendment during his second term,

Wayne LaPierre

#44. It's passing strange that Obama, carried to a second term by women, blacks and Latinos, chooses to give away the plumiest Cabinet and White House jobs to white dudes.

Maureen Dowd

#45. Back in George W. Bush's second term, when diplomatic realism began to overtake foolish bellicosity, the president developed one of his patented nicknames for the two most powerful neoconservative journalists, William Kristol and Charles Krauthammer: he called them 'the Bomber Boys.'

Joe Klein

#46. In the first State of the Union of his second term, President Bush made clear to Americans tonight that he is not going to play the role of a lame duck President.

Jim Sensenbrenner

#47. I believe that we were not as effective in the second term dealing with this issue of nuclear none proliferation as we had been during the first term when we stripped Libya and Iraq and A.Q. Khan and their capacity to proliferate nuclear technology.

Dick Cheney

#48. As a designer you have to just do whatever you want to do. The second I came to terms with that, it transformed my work.

Jason Wu

#49. This is a complete assembly intercourse." It took me a second to realize what he meant. "Cluster fuck, babe. The term is cluster fuck.

Debra Dunbar

#50. The 'fullness of reality' in the second sense of the term is perceived by a combination of both intellect and sense, the senses knowing the particular characteristics, the intellect knowing the nature.

Fulton J. Sheen

#51. In Lincoln's mind, at least as Lamon interpreted the story, "the illusion was a sign." Both the president-elect and his wife believed it meant he would not only survive his term in office, but four years later win reelection to a second one, only to die before it ended.

Harold Holzer

#52. The idea we came up with, well before we left, was something we coined Performance Literature. Excuse the use of that second word, because I realize it's presumptuous. Also, excuse the first word, and the term in general.

Dave Eggers

#53. To investors, job creation is a second-order effect. Market participants care first about interest rates, exchange rates, bond prices and the one great factor that affects all three: the long-term solvency of a bond company called the U.S. government.

Amity Shlaes

#54. I think I'd convinced myself that all long-term relationships end up that way; I really thought I had no right to expect more.

Catherine Sanderson

#55. There's no remedy; 'tis the curse of service, Preferment goes by letter and affection, And not by old gradation, where each second Stood heir to the first. Now, sir, be judge yourself Whether I in any just term

William Shakespeare

#56. There are people on staff who have made that point, that the upside to a second Bush term is that it makes 'American Dad' work better. To me, the price is too high. I would gladly give up the comedy to have a President Kerry. But you work with what you have.

Seth MacFarlane

#57. I still prefer to hear [Bob] Dylan acoustic, some of his electric songs are absolutely great. Electric music is the vernacular of the second half of the twentieth century, to use my father's old term.

Pete Seeger

#58. I don't like the word 'autobiography.' I rather like the term 'autofiction.' The second you make a script out of the story of your life, it becomes fictional. Of course, the truth is never far. But the story is created out of it.

Marjane Satrapi

#59. sharing a strong, five-second greeting each day with your spouse can become a long-term blessing to your relationship. Your greeting should say, "You are priceless to me," rather

Alex Kendrick

#60. Why, there's no remedy; 'tis the curse of service, Preferment goes by letter and affection, And not by old gradation, where each second Stood heir to the first. Now, sir, be judge yourself Whether I in any just term am affin'd To love the Moor.

William Shakespeare

#61. The first type of abstraction from objects I shall refer to as simple abstraction, but the second type I shall call reflective abstraction, using this term in a double sense.

Jean Piaget

#62. I would rather be a one-term President and do what I believe is right than to be a two-term President at the cost of seeing America become a second-race power and to see this Nation accept the first defeat in its proud 190-year history.

Richard M. Nixon

#63. I don't like the term 'chick flick.' I think it denigrates a movie. It has overtones of talking down to women, like they are second best.

Mike Newell

#64. The second thing is, if you want to do something about global warming, you have to think much more long-term. There is something wrong with saying we should start using renewables now, while they are still incredibly expensive.

Bjorn Lomborg

#65. One of the traps or the pitfalls of writing a trilogy - or a triptych, or whatever term you want to use - is that the second book can be a long second act to get you from book one to book three, which borrows all of its energy from the first book.

Justin Cronin