{"quotes":[{"text":"George W. Bush is the worst President in all of American history.","author":"Helen Thomas","tags":["bush","history","presidents"],"id":23242,"author_id":"Helen+Thomas"},{"text":"There are no clean victories for black people, nor, perhaps, for any people. The presidency of Barack Obama is no different. One can now say that an African American individual can rise to the same level as a white individual, and yet also say that the number of black individuals who actually qualify for that status will be small. One thinks of Serena Williams, whose dominance and stunning achievements can’t, in and of themselves, ensure equal access to tennis facilities for young black girls. The gate is open and yet so very far away.","author":"Ta-Nehisi Coates","tags":["african-americans","barack-obama","blacks","equality","politics","potus","presidents","race-relations"],"id":35904,"author_id":"Ta-Nehisi+Coates"},{"text":"There is more for us to gain through love than hate.","author":"Suzy Kassem","tags":["ity","battle","collective","community","corruption","country","division","earth","empath","empathy-diversity","fighting","freedom","gain","global-citizen","globe","good","greed","harmony","hate","hating","hatred","justice","leaders","liberty","lose","love","nation","nationalism","patriot","peace","philosophy","political","political-parties","politicians","politics","presidents","racism","reality","religion","survival","tranquility","truth","united","unity","war","wars","world-citizen","world-peace"],"id":45545,"author_id":"Suzy+Kassem"},{"text":"My job is to find the politicians and the presidents and the pompous people who are telling other people how to live, powerful, visible creatures and ... Go at them.","author":"Craig Ferguson","tags":["politicians","presidents","talk-show-host"],"id":51911,"author_id":"Craig+Ferguson"},{"text":"There is no strife, no prejudice, no national conflict in outer space as yet. Its hazards are hostile to us all. Its conquest deserves the best of all mankind, and its opportunity for peaceful cooperation many never come again. But why, some say, the moon? Why choose this as our goal? And they may well ask why climb the highest mountain? Why, 35 years ago, fly the Atlantic? Why does Rice play Texa...S? We choose to go to the moon. We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win, and the others, too.","author":"John F. Kennedy","tags":["apollo missions","presidents","space","speeches"],"id":70044,"author_id":"John+F.+Kennedy"},{"text":"Most of the mess that is called history comes about because kings and presidents cannot be satisfied with a nice chicken and a good loaf of bread.","author":"Jennifer Donnelly","tags":["greed","history","kings","presidents","revolution"],"id":94456,"author_id":"Jennifer+Donnelly"},{"text":"Someone threw a cabbage at William Howard Taft. That didn't bother Taft. He quipped, 'I see that one of my adversaries has lost his head.","author":"Judith St. George","tags":["humor","humorous","presidents"],"id":98599,"author_id":"Judith+St.+George"},{"text":"Presidents, when not outright telling lies, feel obliged to shade the truth most of the time. This is called politics; when a president lies successfully, he is called a statesman.","author":"Gore Vidal","tags":["lies","presidents","statesmanship"],"id":103571,"author_id":"Gore+Vidal"},{"text":"The election of Donald Trump confirmed everything I knew of my country and none of what I could accept. The idea that America would follow its first black president with Donald Trump accorded with its history. I was shocked at my own shock. I had wanted Obama to be right.I still want Obama to be right. I still would like to fold myself into the dream. This will not be possible.","author":"Ta-Nehisi Coates","tags":["barack-obama","donald-trump","elections","politics","potus","presidents","race-relations","racism"],"id":143524,"author_id":"Ta-Nehisi+Coates"},{"text":"The science of government it is my duty to study, more than all other sciences; the arts of legislation and administration and negotiation ought to take the place of, indeed exclude, in a manner, all other arts. I must study politics and war, that our sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. Our sons ought to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history and naval architecture, navigation, commerce and agriculture in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, music, architecture, statuary, tapestry and porcelain.","author":"John Adams","tags":["books","first-amendment","politics","presidents","scholarship","science","studty"],"id":181953,"author_id":"John+Adams"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":41,"pages":5,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}