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In a president, character is everything. A president doesn't have to be brilliant... e doesr <br />be clever; you can hire clever... You can hire pragmatic, and you can buy and bri g in poli <br />But you cant buy courage and decency, you cant rent a strong moral sense. A pre ident rr <br />those things with him. He needs to have, in that much maligned word, but a good one nor <br />vision of the future he wishes to create.. But a vision is worth little if a president doesn't h <br />character - the courage and heart - to see it through. <br />- Peggy Noonan, 20th century American author, speech writer for U.S. President onald I <br />Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back upon himself. <br />- Charles DeGaulle, French general and president, founder of the Fifth Republic ( 890-19 <br />Politics ruins the character. <br />- Otto von Bismarck, German chancellor, founder of the German nation srate (18 5-1 <br />Character is power. <br />- Booker T. Washington, American educator (1856-1915) <br />Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a mans character, give him <br />- Abraham Lincoln, 16th American president (1809-1865) <br />have to <br />wonks. <br />~t bring <br />heless, a <br />e the <br />r. <br />It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it s certai that there <br />was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous. <br />- Benjamin Franklin, American Founding Father, inventor and statesman (1706-1 90) <br />Every person in America has done or said something that would keep him or her f om bei president. <br />Maybe a nation that consumes as much booze and dope as we do and has our kin of divo ce <br />statistics should pipe down about character issues. <br />- P.J. ORouke, 20th-century American humorist and essayist <br />Leaders are visionaries with a poorly developed sense of fear and no concept of <br />them. They make the impossible happen. <br />- Dr. Robert Jarvik, 20th-century American heart surgeon <br />Political interest [can] never be separated in the long run from moral right. <br />- Thomas Jefferson, American Founding Father and U.S. president (1743-1826), <br />Monroe, 1806 <br />I don't like people who are in politics for themselves and not for others. You want <br />into show business." <br />- Elvis Presley, American rock 'n' roll icon (1935-1977) <br />There is a secret pride in every human heart that revolts at tyranny. You may <br />individual, but you cannot make him respect you. <br />- William Hazlitt, English essayist and literary critic (1778-1830) <br />You can only govern men by serving them. <br />- Victor Cousin, French philosopher (1792-1867) <br />A politician would do well to remember that he has to live with his conscience <br />with his constituents. <br />- Melvin R. Laird, 20th-century American secretary of defense <br />odds ainst <br />Ter to ames <br />~at, yo can go <br />and di <br />an <br />r than I <br />he does <br />~ <br />