President Jimmy Carter

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    Ours was a highly activist administration, with a lot of controversy involved ... but I’m not sure that it would be inconsistent with my own political nature to do it differently if I had it to do all over again.
    Jimmy Carter (James Earl Carter, Jr.)

    I am not liked as a President by the politicians in office, in the press, or in Congress. But I am content to abide the judgment—the sober second thought—of the people.
    Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822–1893)

    What the hell, you’re going to die of something!
    David Mamet, U.S. screenwriter, and Brian DePalma. Jimmy Malone (Sean Connery)

    This fellow mixes his metaphors the way a toper does his drinks and, I daresay, gets just as tipsy on them.
    —Angela Carter (1940–1992)