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When it comes to economics, president-elect [Donald] Trump has promised to revive American manufacturing, get tough on trade with China, cut taxes and invest in infrastructure.

United States military involvement in Syria has deepened since President Trump took office.

President Trump say that relations between the United States and Russia may be at their lowest point since the end of the Cold War.

The man's [Bush] embarrassing. He's not my president and he never will be either.

Indeed, as soon as he took office, Senator Mitch McConnell announced that his top priority was to deny President [Barack] Obama a second term.

The economy is better than the one President [Barack] Obama inherited, and unemployment is lower, but the unemployment rate gap remains large.

The president [Barack Obama] did introduce a jobs bill that could not clear Congress. The Republicans simply would not work with him.

It was quite a process to narrow more than 400 columns down to 80. I write weekly, though, and I don't always write about President [Barack] Obama, so that was the easy elimination.

The published record will show that many in Chicago have mixed feedback on the President's [Barack Obama] role as organizer.

Tavis Smiley lost lots of corporate support after he was critical of President [Barack] Obama.

President [Barack] Obama did put together a task force on 21st Century Policing, led by Philadelphia police chief Charles Ramsey, to look at some of these issues after Ferguson.

The Task Force didn't produce any earth-shattering findings but it suggests that this matter is on the president's radar screen.

Trayvon Martin could have been any of our sons, so I was not especially moved by that remark of President [Barack] Obama's.

He was in Poland to participate in the NATO conference, President [Barack] Obama did respond well to the back-to-back killings, as well as to the attacks on Dallas police officers that followed.

This was in 2004, and it told me that President [Barack] Obama intended to be very careful and noncontroversial in addressing race matters. I

When Ronald Reagan became president, students could no longer get food stamps.

For me, the battle isn't Hillary [Clinton] vs. [Bernie] Sanders. And I understand that for some people that's the battle. But for me, more than anything, it's stopping a Republican president.

I saw the S.B.A. with just enormous potential, and that's what I told the president - this is really a jewel.

I love conventional apocalypse movies. In movies, I like to be with the President, or the scientist trying to solve the problem, but that's not the kind of fiction that I like to read.

The president has an obligation to serve all the people of America.

President Reagan rushed home from Santa Barbara vacation, from the Reagan ranch when the Korean jetliner was shot out of the air by the Russians.

Only a lunatic would want to be president. These lunatics are created deliberately by those who wish to be presided over.

Presidents today spend more time speaking than they do reading or thinking.

Obviously, we're really upset about the state of the election. It's horrifying, as everybody knows, that we could have a totally fascist president.

[I]nstead of spending your energy attacking the parts of the president's [health care] proposal you don't like, you can use it to strengthen the parts you do.

The American people need a strong leader who has the experience and the judgment to be the next President of the United States, and that man is John McCain.

I didn't come here to run for President. I really just came here to play rock and roll.

The idea of negotiating with the President of the United States runs contrary to everything that the Republicans have done since January 20, 2009.

I was the first Republican in the country to support the president's Clean Power Plan.

The president elect [Donald Trump] says that will lead to more investment and growth. Skeptics say the tax plan would explode deficits.

As a child, I remember being in the pool at this pool party and having to get out of the pool to watch Nixon resign. My first idea of a president was of a guy who was a crook.

Donald Trump has said many times, he will be the president of all people, even those who don't agree with him.

It's a big country out there and there are tens of millions of Americans who like what the president [Donald Trump] is doing.

The president's [Donald Trump] approval rating is much higher than the media's approval rating and Congress' approval rating, for that matter.

Donald Trump understood America. He animated America, and now he'll be the president of all Americans.

Most Americans are very focused on what their tax returns will look like while President Trump is in office, not what his look like.

America is a sovereign nation. And as President Trump has said all along, made a centerpiece of his campaign from day one, we have to stop the flow of people and drugs over our borders.

President Trump has been very public about the fact that Aleppo is a humanitarian crisis that's been all but ignored by America for far long.

I look up at the screen and I see no difference between the way candidate Trump, president-elect Trump, and President Trump is being treated by many outlets.

The New York Times endorsed Hillary Clinton for President, they turned around and talked about the way Hillary Clinton and cohorts always went after these women [of Bill Clinton].

[Donald Trump] is trying to be elected president of the United States and he's doing that with or without certain people's endorsements.

[Donald Trump] will be the president of the United States.

We want it to be a post- election coverage of the president-elect.

Mr. President, the dedication of 35 percent of all construction contracts to women is really mind blowing to say the least. President Jonathan's benevolence to women is unbelievably phenomenal.

Barack Obama was not born into wealth or privilege, yet today his is president of these United States of America. Barack Obama has lived the American Dream. He has walked in our shoes.

The media here is the opposition party. They don't understand this country. They still do not understand why Donald Trump is the president of the United States.

Me as a person, I'm not the president of the NBPA (National Basketball Players Association). I don't even know what to say. I'm not like this perfect, buttoned-up, suit-and-tie guy.

Lots of people fantasize about what it would be like if they were president... Most think they'd be decent and wouldn't be corrupted at all, that they'd remain true to themselves.

We reject President Donald Trump's view. It was a mistake to say that 'the Islamic world divided into "good" and "evil"', a major wrongdoing.

I would love John McCain as president.