All Quotes By Tag: Presidents

“The president is the high priest of what sociologist Robert Bellah calls the ‘American civil religion.’ The president must invoke the name of God (though not Jesus), glorify America’s heroes and history,quote its sacred texts (the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution), and perform the transubstantiation of pluribus unum.”

“Trump’s America is not America: not today’s or tomorrow’s, but yesterday’s.Trump’s America is brutal, perverse, regressive, insular and afraid. There is no hope in it; there is no light in it. It is a vast expanse of darkness and desolation.And that is a vision of America that most of the people in this country cannot and will not abide.”

“As presidents pass, the sad loss of life will be noted by those who care about humanity, and the greater need to show love & respect so that people may cherish hope for the future.It’s those who care little except for their reflection in their guilt that shall stay away from the needs of the people.”

“I never did give them hell. I just told the truth, and they thought it was hell.”