„Mr. President, you are not leading this Nation—you're just managing the Government. You don't see the people enough any more. Some of your Cabinet members don't seem loyal. There is not enough discipline among your disciples. Don't talk to us about politics or the mechanics of government, but about an understanding of our common good. Mr. President, we're in trouble. Talk to us about blood and sweat and tears. If you lead, Mr. President, we will follow.“

As quoted by President Jimmy Carter during his Malaise Speech, delivered on 15 July 1979 http://www.slate.com/articles/podcasts/whistlestop/2015/07/when_ted_kennedy_challenged_incumbent_president_jimmy_carter_for_the_democratic.html.
1970s

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42. Präsident der Vereinigten Staaten von Amerika 1946

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„Thank you, Mr. President and thank you distinguished colleagues. We ask earnestly for your help in the timely passage of the 2015 National Budget. At this junction, Mr. President, may I ask that we recognize Senate President Pro-Tempore Recto.“

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— Francis Escudero Filipino politician 1969

Sponsorship Speech on the FY 2015 National Budget http://www.senate.gov.ph/press_release/2014/1118_escudero3.asp
2014, Speech: Sponsorship Speech for the FY 2015 National Budget

„Mr. President, you're entitled as a president to your own airplane, and to your own house, but not to your own facts. I'm not going to cut education funding. I don't have any plan to cut education funding.“

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— Mitt Romney American businessman and politician 1947

Presidential debate, , * 2012-10-03
2012 presidential debate: President Obama and Mitt Romney’s remarks in Denver on Oct. 3
Washington Post
http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/decision2012/2012-presidential-debate-president-obama-and-mitt-romneys-remarks-in-denver-on-oct-3-running-transcript/2012/10/03/24d6eb6e-0d91-11e2-bd1a-b868e65d57eb_story_4.html
2012-10-04, viewable at [2012-10-03, Special Programming : Mitt Romney zingers at first presidential debate, CNN, YouTube, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2PvpBLQXEJg, 2012-10-04]
in response to President Obama's assertion, "His running mate, Congressman Ryan, put forward a budget... it wasn't very detailed (this seems to be a trend), but what it did do, if you extrapolated how much money we're talking about, you'd look at cutting the education budget up to 20%."
possibly paraphrasing "Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts.", attributed to Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan
2012

„My Dear Mr. Pissarro; - I accept with pleasure the invitation that you and Mr. Degas were kind enough to extend to me. And naturally in that case I shall abide by all the rules that govern your Societe. Based on this decision, I also have the membership dues available. I will probably see you at Miss Latouche's and we will talk about this.“

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— Paul Gauguin French Post-Impressionist artist 1848 - 1903

Quote from a short letter of Gauguin, 3 April 1879, to French artist to Pissarro; as cited on 'Paul Gauguin Autograph Letter Signed to Camille Pissarro' - Nade D. Sanders http://natedsanders.com/paul_gauguin_autograph_letter_signed_to_camille_pi-lot13463.aspx
Gauguin accepted membership in the Societe Anonyme Cooperative des Artistes Peintres, Sculpteurs, Graveurs, formed in 1873 by Pissarro, Claude Monet, Pierre-Auguste Renoir and Alfred Sisley for the purpose of exhibiting their artwork independently
1870s - 1880s

„I have sometimes said that flattery is all right, Mr. President, if you don't inhale it.“

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— Adlai Stevenson mid-20th-century Governor of Illinois and Ambassador to the UN 1900 - 1965

Opening sentence of Stevenson's first appearance at the UN as UN Ambassador, February 1, 1961. From "Looking Outward", by Adlai Stevenson, p. 3

„Mr. President, I love you, but you're wrong.“

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— Paul Harvey American broadcaster 1918 - 2009

Statement regarding Richard Nixon and the Vietnam War (1972), as quoted in "Paul Harvey dead at 90" in Chicago Tribune (28 February 2009) http://web.archive.org/web/20090302092100/http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/chi-paul-harvey-dead,0,3381755.story

„Mr. President, there are some people who are never going to like you.“

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— Bill Maher American stand-up comedian 1956

New Rule: Float Like Obama, Sting Like Ali (2009)
Kontext: Mr. President, there are some people who are never going to like you. That's why they voted for the old guy and Carrie's mom. You're not going to win them over. Stand up for the 70% of Americans who aren't crazy.

„The Secretary of State, the President, they all talk about "values". A "value" is a subjective desire, not an objective truth. George Washington said: "The foundations of our national policy will be laid in the pure and immutable principles of private morality." If you had said, "Oh, Mr. Washington, you mean in our 'values?'" Washington would have replied, "What the hell are you talking about?"“

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— Harry V. Jaffa American historian and collegiate professor 1918 - 2015

2000s, Interview with Peter Robinson (2009)

„Mr. President, you said would we have more leverage if both parties got our votes, but we didn't come this far playing political games. It was those that earned our vote that got our vote. We got the Civil Rights Act under a Democrat. We got the Voting Rights Act under a Democrat. We got the right to organize under Democrats. Mr. President, the reason we are fighting so hard, the reason we took Florida so seriously, is our right to vote wasn't gained because of our age. Our vote was soaked in the blood of martyrs, soaked in the blood of good men, soaked in the blood of four little girls in Birmingham. This vote is sacred to us. This vote can't be bargained away. This vote can't be given away. Mr. President, in all due respect, Mr. President, read my lips: Our vote is not for sale.“

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— Al Sharpton American Baptist minister, civil rights activist, and television/radio talk show host 1954

From the 2004 DNC

„Here is the crisis of the times as I see it: We talk about problems, issues, policies, but we don't talk about what democracy means — what it bestows on us — the revolutionary idea that it isn't just about the means of governance but the means of dignifying people so they become fully free to claim their moral and political agency.“

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— Bill Moyers American journalist 1934

"The Power of Democracy", speech accepting the Public Intellectual Award of the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation (7 February 2007), as quoted in Moyers on Democracy (2008), p. 92

„I found it interesting Mr. Khan, that you and your wife, an American Gold Star family, would take the stage to support a sitting president and one desiring to be president, who had abandoned Americans in a combat zone and lied about it.“

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— Allen West (politician) American politician; retired United States Army officer 1961

2010s, Open letter to Khizr M. Khan (31 July 2016)

„George W. Bush: How's your boy?
Webb: I'd like to get them out of Iraq, Mr. President
Bush: That's not what I asked you. How's your boy?
Webb: That's between me and my boy, Mr. President.“

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— Jim Webb American politician, military officer and author 1946

In Following His Own Script, Webb May Test Senate's Limits, Washington Post, November 29, 2006, Michael D. Shear http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/11/28/AR2006112801582.html,

„The world, even the smallest parts of it, is filled with things you don't know.

If you care about something enough, it's going to make you cry. But you have to use it. Use your tears. Use your pain. Use your fear. Get mad.“

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— Sherman Alexie, buch The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian

Quelle: The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian

„Mr. President, in so far as special and general provisions. Your committee on Finance proposes the following.“

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— Francis Escudero Filipino politician 1969

2014, Speech: Sponsorship Speech for the FY 2015 National Budget

„THE COURT:… Mr. Dellinger, do you care to say anything? Only in respect to punishment.
MR. DELLINGER: Yes… and I hope you will do me the courtesy not to interrupt me while I am talking.
THE COURT: I won't interrupt you as long as you are respectful.
MR. DELLINGER: Well. I will talk about the facts and the facts don't always encourage false respect.“

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— Dave Dellinger American activist 1915 - 2004

United States of America vs. David T. Dellinger et al.

„I want to see a woman president soon, but not [Hillary Clinton]. She's a disaster. She's a disaster. She's a disaster. I mean, just think of the corruption and the scandal… We don't want to go through it. We want to see winning. We want to see win, win, win – constant winning. And you'll say – if I'm president… 'Please, Mr. President, we're winning too much. We can't stand it anymore. Can't we have a loss?' And I'll say no, we're going to keep winning, winning, winning… because we're going to make America great again. And you'll say, 'Okay, Mr. President. Okay.“

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— Donald J. Trump 45th President of the United States of America 1946

2010s, 2016, January, Speech at Liberty University (18 January 2016)

„That place, Mr. President, is not your place. Your place is with the victims of the SS.“

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— Elie Wiesel writer, professor, political activist, Nobel Laureate, and Holocaust survivor 1928 - 2016

Comments regarding US President Ronald Reagan's proposed visit to a Bitburg cemetery with then German President Helmut Kohl, on receiving the Congressional Gold Medal from Reagan (4/1/1985).

„With all due respect, Mr President, you are an asshole.“

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— Joschka Fischer German politician 1948

Mit Verlaub, Herr Präsident, Sie sind ein Arschloch.
Said to German Bundestag vice president Richard Stücklen after he excluded Jürgen Reents because he described Helmut Kohl as von Flick freigekauft [bought out by Flick) (1984-10-18); from S. Krause-Burger: Joschka Fischer. Der Marsch durch die Illusionen.

„Mr. Speaker, we are here now in chapter 11. Members of Congress are official trustees presiding over the greatest reorganization of any bankrupt entity in world history, the U. S. government.“

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— James Traficant Ohio politician 1941 - 2014

Speech in Congress (1993)

„President Saddam, he always think about America, "They are foolish. They don't understand anything in this world. They never travel. They don't know anything outside the area. Just they believe what the president says. They are the dictatorship, not us." And about George Bush, the father, he always called him stupid.“

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— Saddam Hussein Iraqi politician and President 1937 - 2006

Latif Yahia, double for Uday Saddam Hussein, in I knew… Saddam (31 July 2007) Al Jazeera English
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„Republicans sure don't care about finding $200 billion to fight the illegal war in Iraq. Where are you going to get that money? Are you going to tell us lies like you're telling us today? Is that how you're going to fund the war? You don't have money to fund the war or children. But you're going to spend it to blow up innocent people if he can get enough kids to grow old enough for you to send to Iraq to get their heads blown off for the President's amusement.“

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— Pete Stark American politician 1931 - 2020

Statement on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives regarding the SCHIP bill, October 18, 2007. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DsGaNR9dVPM

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