Inauguration – Quotes

Usually, being a volunteer

Usually, being a volunteer organizer essentially means that I am part of a core base of individuals, that when we start a project – whether it be a big thing like the inauguration or whether it be something that’s a longer-term, let’s say, educational campaign about a foreign policy issue or a domestic issue – … Read more

You know, YOUR President,

You know, YOUR President, the one with the big ears-he ain’t my President – had that woman singing for him at his Inauguration. She’s going to get her [expletive] whooped. How dare Beyonce sing MY song that I been singing forever. Now I’m going to sing it for y’all. Etta James

The imprudent Maximus disregarded

The imprudent Maximus disregarded these salutary considerations: he gratified his resentment and ambition; he saw the bleeding corpse of Valentinian at his feet; and he heard himself saluted Emperor by the unanimous voice of the senate and people. But the day of his inauguration was the last day of his happiness. Edward Gibbon

First of all, let

First of all, let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself – nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance. Franklin D. Roosevelt

The only thing we

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself. Franklin D. Roosevelt

I feel like the

I feel like the fellow in jail who is watching his scaffold being built.\” (On construction of reviewing stands for inauguration of his successor John F Kennedy) Dwight D. Eisenhower

No doubt, the White

No doubt, the White House thinks the American people know Obama’s story. But since the Inauguration, we’ve seen only the president’s present: his perfect family, his Ivy League elegance, his effortless mastery of complex issues. We never see him sweat. And we forget that he ever had to struggle. Dee Dee Myers