Presidential Legacy: Most Memorable Quotes

[thesquanderer]

Kennedy: "Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country."

Nixon: "I am not a crook."

Ford: "Our long national nightmare is over."

Reagan: "Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall."

Bush: "Read my lips: no new taxes."

Clinton: "I did not have sexual relations with that woman"

Obama: "We tortured some folks."

[bravenak]

1. That's not how I'm going to remember my President.

[nichomachus]

3. Selective memory is a time-honored defense mechanism n/t

[bravenak]

5. Don't I know it!

I'll probably remember the crash of '08, and how scared I was until he took over.

[PoliticAverse]

6. What would be your most memorable Obama quote? n/t

[bravenak]

7. Here goes.....

"Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we have been waiting for. We are the change that we seek."

That quote inspired me that year. I was suffering from a serious bout of depression and it touched me inside. I realized in that moment that I could do whatever the fuck I wanted to. And it felt good to me as a black woman to free myself from the mental prison that our society forces onto Black Americans. No longer are we the char women, the floor scrubbers, the housemaids. My mind was free.

Now, I do do whatever the fuck I want. Just like a white person. Feels so good to hold my head up high and know I am just a valuable as the rest. And that I owe nobody anything that I don't owe to myself first. I changed. And it was good.

[freshwest]

13. Glad to hear you got past that. Stay strong, you are all you need to be, bravenak!

[bravenak]

15. Thank you!! I'm holding on and moving forward.nt

[freshwest]

14. +1

[bravenak]

2. Do y'all even realize we have been committing torture since the nations founding?

Slavery was torture. Native America genocide was torture. Now we tortured more brown people in the middle east.
And all of these folks are going on about how we don't torture. Um, yes we do. Been doing it forever.

Now, I do not agree with torture. I just disagree that this is something new in America. We are brutal.

[nichomachus]

4. He's just following in some illustrious footsteps

George W. Bush: “The United States of America is engaged in a war against an extremist group of folks bound together by an ideology, willing to use terror to achieve their objectives.”

[Electric Monk]

8. You forgot Duhbya: "Lucky me, I hit the trifecta" and "Mission Accomplished"

[PoliticAverse]

9. I still prefer "Brownie, you're doing a heck of a job.". n/t

[smokey nj]

10. "Too many OB-GYNs aren't able to practice their LOVE with women."

[liberal_at_heart]

11. "The status quo is morally inexcusable."

Obama was stating this on his education policy. My autistic son spent his entire sixth grade year in tears because of being forced to learn pre-algebra when he had a 4th/5th grade math comprehension level. That is what is morally inexcusable Mr. President.

[Autumn]

12. G.W.Bush Fool me once, shame on shame on you? You fool me can't get fooled again.