Truman Quotes

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President Roosevelt proved that a President could serve for life. Truman proved that anyone could be elected. Eisenhower proved that your country can be run without a President.

I never graduated from Iowa, but I was only there for two terms - Truman's and Eisenhower's.

I've reached a point in my life where my Truman Show boat has hit the painting.

Anyone who ever gave you confidence, you owe them a lot". ~Truman Capote, Breakfast at Tiffany's, 1958, spoken by the character Holly Golightly

I am going to build the kind of nation that President Roosevelt hoped for, President Truman worked for, and President Kennedy died for.

When you first saw 'The Truman Show,' did anyone else walk around for the next week not picking your nose just in case?

I always go back to Harry Truman: Should we drop an atomic bomb to save 100,000 lives? That's a hell of a decision to make. Did he make that decision by himself? No, he had advisers.

We had been frightened of atomic weapons since 1945. In those days I became convinced - and remain convinced now - that, after Hitler, Truman was the greatest murderer in the world.

Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him.

Harry Truman proves that old adage that any man can become President of the United States.

It was such a leap in my career when 'Truman Show' came along. It's always been a long process for me insofar as recognition goes, but that's OK because you appreciate it when it comes.

He still has the same way of calling to me, as if I'm still new to him, as if he has yet to get over me.

Let me tell you, the first president to recognize the state of Israel was Harry Truman, a Democrat. And every president since, Democrat and Republican, have stood closely with Israel.

I love Truman Capote, Tennessee Williams, Flannery O'Connor. I read a lot of American writers.

My favorite monologue in the book is Kate Harrington's story of her relationship with Truman.

For The Truman Show, I worked for a few weeks, do my gig, then I was done.

I always said little Truman had a voice so high it could only be detected by bats.

Hysterical in The Mask; funny yet moving in The Truman Show.

I think Democrats made a mistake running away from liberalism. Liberalism, uh, Franklin Roosevelt, Harry Truman, John and Robert Kennedy - that's what the Democratic party ought to reach for.

[Truman Capote] was not only just selling his writing, but he was selling himself as a person.

Harry Truman was courageous enough to command that racial segregation be ended in the military. I was serving in a submarine in the U.S. Navy at the time he issued the order.

Eisenhower was a pretty peace-oriented president. Truman was a pretty hawkish. I would argue, if we had more time, I would argue Truman had a lot to do with getting the Cold War going.

Almost everything Truman did in foreign affairs I approve of.

It's hard these days to have a conversation, at least it is for me, about [Truman]Capote without "Good Night, and Good Luck" coming up in the same conversation.

I liked Truman very much. He was precise and businesslike. After a while, it was his turn.

Are there any writers on the literary scene whom I consider truly great? Yes: Truman Capote.

I loved Harry Truman with all my heart and soul.

[President Truman] was free of the greatest vice in a leader, his ego never came between him and his job.

My favourite president, and the one I admired most, was Harry Truman.

I am the heterosexual Truman Capote.

Truman Capote has made lying an art. A minor art.

If there had been any formidable body of cannibals in the country, Harry Truman would have promised to provide them with free missionaries fattened at the taxpayer's expense.

I went to a little liberal-arts college in Missouri called Truman State University.

My life is not unlike Truman's. I can't go anywhere.

Everyone is against Harry (Truman) except the people.

I'm a Harry Truman, JFK, Scoop Jackson and Bill Clinton Democrat.

Franklin Roosevelt, Harry Truman, others, knew how to lead. They knew how to ask the American people for the right things.

I think the whole student rebellion is not really a rebellion at all....They want a certain kind of identity

What are your chief vices? And virtues? I have no vices. The concept doesn't exist in my vocabulary. My chief virtue is gratitude

...he called after her as shedisappeared down the path, a pretty girl in a hurry...

Happiness leaves such slender records

The question isn't who will be with me in life, rather how will I create the ending I am proud of?

America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand."-Harry S. Truman

It’s a recession when your neighbor loses his job