About Franklin D. Roosevelt, as quoted in Triumph: The Untold Story of Jesse Owens and Hitler's Olympics https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-618-68822-7 (2007), by Jeremy Schaap, New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, p. 211
1930s
2010s, 2016, April, Foreign Policy Speech (27 April 2016)
‘Not Welcome’: London’s Muslim Mayor Repeats Calls to Cancel Trump Visit http://www.breitbart.com/london/2017/12/26/not-welcome-londons-muslim-mayor-repeats-calls-cancel-trump-visit/ (December 26, 2017)
Bush press secretary Scott McClellan, on the illegal outing of CIA agent Valerie Plame by White House officials, What Happened; Politico.com http://dyn.politico.com/printstory.cfm?uuid=2C2AD8E6-3048-5C12-00DD5B339097C9F9
“He [Nehru] used to treat me with respect even when he didn't agree with me.”
India Today in: Gulzarilal Nanda: Profile in austerity http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/at-98-two-time-interim-pm-gulzarilal-nanda-is-the-epitome-of-gandhian-ideals/1/283506.html, India Today, 15 May 1996.
On Michael Bloomberg's speech about Trump. At an interview with The New York Times'<nowiki/> Maureen Dowd. http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/30/opinion/trumps-thunderbolts.html (July 29, 2016)
2010s, 2016, July
“Our president is a Christian? So was Adolf Hitler.”
I Love You, Madame Librarian (2004)
This was the third time I’d put the question to him, in one form or another. The first time, a month earlier in this same cabin, he’d had a lot of trouble getting his mind around the idea that I, not he, was president. He’d started by saying something he knew to be dull and expected but that—he insisted—was nevertheless perfectly true. “Here is what I would tell you,” he’d said. “I would say that your first and principal task is to think about the hopes and dreams the American people invested in you. Everything you are doing has to be viewed through this prism. And I tell you what every president … I actually think every president understands this responsibility. I don’t know George Bush well. I know Bill Clinton better. But I think they both approached the job in that spirit.” Then he added that the world thinks he spends a lot more time worrying about political angles than he actually does.
Michael Lewis, "Obama's Way" https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2012/10/michael-lewis-profile-barack-obama, Vanity Fair, (October 2012).
2012
“Why would I care whether or not he loved me when he didn't even really know me?”
Source: The Perks of Being a Wallflower
“President Bush almost killed me.”
Burned Up and Burned Out by Politics, Feb. 4 2008 (quoted by Huffington Post http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rosie-odonnell/burned-up-and-burned-out-_b_84868.html)
“To me, being president of the country is awesome.”
3 December, 2015
As President, 2015
Source: 20 Minutos http://www.20minutos.es/noticia/2620020/0/mariano-rajoy/bertin-osborne/frases-entrevista/
