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National security, the government is in charge of that. And you better have a president that understands the threats we [the state] face and what we have to do about it and if you can't articulate that as a candidate, you cannot be commander-in-chief.

Natural species are the library from which genetic engineers can work. Genetic engineers don't make new genes, they rearrange existing ones. Speaking as World Wildlife Fund Executive Vice President, stating the need to conserve biodiversity, even plants and animals having no immediate use, as a unique repository of genes for possible future biogengineering applications.

Nature is inexorable. If men do not follow the truth they cannot live.

Nearly everyone who is unemployed votes "Democrat." Nearly every immigrant, at least in the first generation, votes "Democrat." Nearly every non-white American votes "Democrat." The GOP know that so intellectually and financially bankrupt an administration should never have been re-elected - indeed, given the scale of electoral fraud practiced by the "Democrats," he may not actually have been re-elected (always supposing that he had the constitutional right to hold the office of president in the first place).

Neither this nation nor this party can afford a candidate so captive to the demands of the intolerant right that we end up re-electing a president of the incompetent left.

Nelson Mandela was a terrorist. And then he wins the world peace prize and becomes president of South Africa. That's how change happens. It's very important not to differentiate protest from the democratic process.

Never be easy for any president to deal with any Congress. But republicans got to work together. We got to get things done.

Never in my lifetime have I been called boring. But I think I was a boring candidate for president because I tried to be responsible. And one of the greatest problems I had is that I was governor.

New and expanded refundable tax credits would raise the fraction of taxpayers paying no income taxes to almost 50% from 38%. This is potentially the most pernicious feature of the president's budget, because it would cement a permanent voting majority with no stake in controlling the cost of general government.

New rumors that Saddam Hussein is planning to flee to a castle in Libya with 10 billion dollars. Now President Bush doesn't know whether to nuke him or give him a tax cut.

Newt Gingrich never received more than 100,000 votes in his life. He'll never be president.

Newt Gingrich plans to announce his campaign for president this Wednesday. I don’t know about his chances. I mean, I’m not saying Gingrich peaked in the ‘90s, but his campaign is being sponsored by Tamagotchis and Crystal Pepsi.

News has a way of distancing us from events, even as it informs us about them. News articles almost always present both the event and the responses at the same time - how is President Barack Obama or Congress responding to the events? I think this reflects a deep need we have to feel that things are under control and that events are subject to our influence.

Newt Gingrich would be a much better president than Barack Obama.

Next time I tell you someone from Texas should not be president of the United States, please pay attention.

Nixon in 1968, unlike Obama 2008, was elected as a minority president with only 43 percent of the vote. Yet, in 1972, he won what, in some measures, was the most lopsided election in American history with 61 percent.

Nixon was a good president on the environment. Gerald Ford was good.

Nixon is fascinating because he's our most alienated president. Everybody felt that they never knew who he was - that's palpable in the histories. His face is so cartoony that he's become this cartoon figure. I never really related to the romanticization of J.F.K., and I knew too much about Reagan to idealize him. Nixon falls in between.

Nixon wasn't really considered the president by the youth of America. He was considered to be a fraud and which he proved himself to be.

Nixon was a Southern Rim President, and so antipathetic to the old guard.

Nixon was no more a saint than he was a great president.

Nobody would put as little thought and effort into buying an automobile as they put into deciding who to elect as President of the United States.

No easy problems ever come to the President of the United States. If they are easy to solve, someone else has solved them.

No doubt it was better to have become president than not.

No great president in the USA has been primarily a me-first person.

No, I'm not interested in developing a powerful brain. All I'm after is just a mediocre brain, something like the President of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company.

No man can well doubt the propriety of placing a president of the United States under the most solemn obligations to preserve, protect, and defend the constitution.

No man should be allowed to be the President who does not understand hogs, or hasn't been around a manure pile.

No lover ever studied every whim of his mistress as I did those of President Roosevelt.

No man will ever be President of the United States who spells 'negro' with two gs.

No man who enters upon the office to which I have succeeded can fail to recognize how every president of the United States has placed special reliance upon his faith in God.

No matter how you rearrange President Obama's inner circle, it still looks, smells and tastes like a rotten Chicago deep-dish pizza.

No matter what anyone may say about making the rich and the corporations pay taxes, in the end they come out of the people who toil

No medieval monarch in the whole of British history ever had such power as every modern British Prime Minister has in his or her hands. Nor does any American President have power approaching this

Nonetheless, so whether it's unconstitutional or not [for judges to overruling presidents], I leave to others.

No one has died from giving a bad presentation. Well, at least one person did, President William Henry Harrison, but he developed pneumonia after giving the longest inaugural address in U.S. history. The easy lesson from his story: keep it short, or you might die.

No one is looking at what President Obama is wearing. Michelle Obama cannot Instagram a bikini pic like what my girl Instagrammed the other day.

No one is above the law, not even the president. I believe perjury does meet at least the definition of high misdemeanor.

No one, no single center, can today command the world. No single group of countries can do it. Under the current U.S. president, I don't think we can fundamentally change the situation as it is developing now. It is dangerous. The world is experiencing a period of growing global disarray.

No one's supposed to be the president. This is not England. And it's not just the Bush family, all families designate each child as having some particular trait.

No one should be put on trial without a valid reason. Former President Morsi must be treated with dignity. These are the conditions of national reconciliation.

No one should be surprised that in the balance between national security and civil liberties, President [Donald] Trump, like candidate Trump wants to be more aggressive.

No pecuniary consideration is more urgent, than the regular redemption and discharge of the public debt: on none can delay be more injurious, or an economy of time more valuable.

No president has the right to say he is judge, jury and executioner.

No president can easily commit our sons and daughters to war.

No president is well-served by groupthink or by everybody singing from the same sheet of music they think he's on.

No president who performs his duties faithfully and conscientiously can have any leisure.

No other President ever enjoyed the Presidency as I did.

No president ever had more power than [Franklin Delano] Roosevelt.

No President has ever enjoyed himself as much as I?