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American presidents always avoid shaking hands with brutal dictators, except when it's advantageous to do so.

I do not believe any president can bind a successor president to give up his fundamental role as protector of the country.

A President cannot always be popular.

No authoritarian leader cedes power easily or turns it over to bodies he cannot control.

We don't want a president who fails at domestic and foreign policy.

Great presidents, and even those not so great, never complained about the hands they were dealt. Just the opposite. They assumed they were in the big chair to meet big challenges, no matter how difficult.

It is hard to look the other way when a dictator is being so cruel and violent with his own people.

There are few things more dangerous in a democracy than allowing a President to wage secret wars without the knowledge of the country.

It should be remembered that the president cannot, by executive order, do things that affects the public at large unless there is some Congressional basis for it.

In person, George W. Bush is extremely forceful. He has a restless energy when he sits in a chair, and nearly leaps out of it when making certain points.