Presidents always want to do nice, noble, long-run things, and Congress is less keen to do so. We've seen that throughout the history of this country.
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Presidents should do whatever possible and practical to encourage an environment of cooperation and bipartisanship. And they should maintain a certain level of decorum, diplomacy and decency. But, at the end of the day, presidents get elected to enact change.
I see a trend here where the President seems to think his job is to count votes and then try to make a deal That's what we in legislatures do. Mr. Obama's job is to travel the country, fight for the values that he cares about.
Presidents are nice people. They're nice, fun-loving people who have great jobs.
People tend to judge presidents on how the economy performs, and yet we don't expect them to have the power to do much about it. Or we don't want them to exercise that power, if they were to have it.
At the start of first terms, presidents invariably have a measure of goodwill.
Presidents have an impact on the nature of our nation.
There are limits on what a president can achieve or do, but the expectations are so great.
The U.S. needs to do more than change presidents. It needs to change its political culture.
Presidents quickly realize that while a single act might destroy the world they live in, no one single decision can make life suddenly better or can turn history around for the good.
Any time a president is re-elected, he has a little more political clout to get things done.
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