Camille Paglia Quotes

In choosing a president, we really don't choose a Republican or Democrat, a conservative or liberal. We choose a leader.

Sometimes in this country, we don't focus a lot on people's experience and their resume. Mitt Romney would be the most experienced executive to be nominated since 1952. The fundamental task for the next president is going to be fixing things, cleaning things up, being a turnaround artist, if you will.

This week you will nominate the most experienced executive to seek the presidency in 60 years in Mitt Romney. He has no illusions about what makes America great, and he doesn't confuse the presidency with celebrity, or loftiness with leadership.

Let me just be very clear that the Republican Party will select a nominee that will beat Bill Clinton.

Newt Gingrich would be a much better president than Barack Obama.

Gov. Romney is a proven and effective leader with vast experience in the business world, in the non-profit world and in government. And in every capacity in which he has ever served, he has been effective as a leader.

I voted for Barack Obama largely on the basis of his temperament, which I thought superior. He is only 47 years old, but to me seemed older than that: a man of precocious aspect and judgment.

When you want to fix the country, you want someone who can beat Hillary Clinton.

Mitt Romney, happens to have the exact skill set that the next president's going to require.

On the political side, I was the Democratic nominee for the Governor of Tennessee in 1970 and 1998.

Francois Hollande is an intelligent man. I do not have a problem with him. The only thing is, he has never held office at the state level. Honestly, can you imagine Francois Hollande as president of France? Imagine it!

I am fully prepared to be commander in chief... I don't need on-the-job training.

As the leader of twelve apostles, even Jesus had more executive experience than Obama.

The thing that differs me from a lot of other people running for the President of the United States is that I focus on the problem first. Then I focus on what the solution is.

Clinton is the first female to be taken seriously for the highest office in the land. She has the credentials, the stamina and she is a good campaigner. Her detractors in both parties like to say she can't win, but they may be proven wrong.

I have no desire to be president of the United States. Zero desire. I don't think that I would be electable. And there are far too many people that are far smarter than me to be president. I'd like to find one with some honor and integrity. I haven't seen them yet, but they'll show up.

I have 15 years of executive experience as a big-city mayor and as a governor.

I think that it's important if you run for President that you have to make those important decisions. And your father, if he can help, probably, he helps just by being your father without getting intimately involved.

I may not be the favourite candidate of some people within the Republican establishment, but the voters made a decision.

I think experience is a terribly overrated idea when it comes to thinking about who should become president.

I do have my ducks in line if I want to do it, but I'd love to see the Republicans pick somebody that was going to win and take over this country and frankly, to use the expression, 'Make America great again.'

But to make a long story short, I decided that I was going to run, and I announced that I was going to run for president in Florida, I would be the favorite son from Florida, and that would stop Johnson and Kennedy from dividing up the state.

There is no school that teaches you how to run a state. You make mistakes, but you learn on the job.

You cannot bring inexperienced men ... into the government and expect the government to run well.

If the question at Chicago had been who shall be the next President? instead of who shall be the candidate? beyond all question the choice would have fallen on New York's illustrious statesman .