Presidents
| President | Office | Origin |
|---|---|---|
| Demetrius Vikelas Demetrius Vikelas | 1894–1896 | Greece |
| Pierre de Coubertin Baron Pierre de Coubertin | 1896–1925 | France |
| Henri de Baillet-Latour Count Henri de Baillet-Latour | 1925–1942 | Belgium |
| Sigfrid Edström Johannes Sigfrid Edström | 1942–1952 | Sweden |
| Avery Brundage Avery Brundage | 1952–1972 | United States |
| Michael Morris Baron Killanin Michael Morris | 1972–1980 | Ireland |
| Juan Antonio Samaranch Marqués Juan Antonio Samaranch | 1980–2001 | Spain |
| Jacques Rogge Count Jacques Rogge | 2001–present | Belgium |
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Famous quotes containing the word presidents:
“Governments can err, Presidents do make mistakes, but the immortal Dante tells us that divine justice weighs the sins of the cold-blooded and the sins of the warm-hearted in different scales. Better the occasional faults of a Government that lives in a spirit of charity than the constant omission of a Government frozen in the ice of its own indifference.”
—Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882–1945)
“You must drop all your democracy. You must not believe in “the people.” One class is no better than another. It must be a case of Wisdom, or Truth. Let the working classes be working classes. That is the truth. There must be an aristocracy of people who have wisdom, and there must be a Ruler: a Kaiser: no Presidents and democracies.”
—D.H. (David Herbert)
“A president, however, must stand somewhat apart, as all great presidents have known instinctively. Then the language which has the power to survive its own utterance is the most likely to move those to whom it is immediately spoken.”
—J.R. Pole (b. 1922)