James Monroe Quotes
Your report! 'Tis my report. It is no report at all until I have accepted it.
The issue of when a government report is a report and who in the executive branch controls it has long been a contentious one. In an early dispute, Secretary of State John Quincy Adams suggested to the President that a statement he was about to make conflicted with one of Adams' reports:
James Monroe, 1758-1831, 5th President of the United States (Democratic Republican, VA), Remark to John Quincy Adams, Quoted in John Quincy Adams' Diary, April 30, 1822
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1st Earl Baldwin of Bewdley. His famous line was actually first stated by Rudyard Kipling.
Churchill's first government job was as Undersecretary of the Colonies. Shortly after his appointment he observed:
You see this palace is now yours, and the city is in your power; what do you think ought to be done?
Their first act was to “elect” him Gonfalonier.
McGovern partisans were hostile to the Congressman in his own home district:
This is the earliest use of the “pass the buck” phrase in politics that we have found. The term originated in gambling. In a poker game, the “buck” was a physical object token that would be passed from player to player to indicate who was to deal.
James Monroe was an American statesman, lawyer, diplomat and Founding Father who served as the fifth president of the United States from 1817 to 1825. A member of the Democratic-Republican Party, Monroe was the last president of the Virginia dynasty; his presidency coincided with the Era of Good Feelings. He is perhaps best known for issuing the Monroe Doctrine, a policy of opposing European colonialism in the Americas. He also served as the governor of Virginia, a member of the United States Senate, the U.S. ambassador to France and Britain, the seventh Secretary of State, and the eighth Secretary of War.
