A president is a leader of an organization, company, club, trade union, university, or country.
Etymologically, a president is one who presides, who sits in leadership (from Latin pre- "before" + sedere "to sit"; giving the term praeses). Originally, the term referred to the presiding officer of a ceremony or meeting (i.e., chairman), but today it most commonly refers to an official. Among other things, "President" today is a common title for the...
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Offices:
- President of Abkhazia ,
- President of Adygea ,
- President of Afghanistan ,
- President of Algeria ,
- President of Angola ,
- President of Anjouan ,
- President of Argentina ,
- President of Armenia ,
- President of Austria ,
- President of Azerbaijan
Characters With This Occupation:
- Dan Conway ,
- James Taggart ,
- Myrtle Anagnostou ,
- Laura Roslin ,
- Gaius Baltar ,
- Richard Adar ,
- Amber Ericcs ,
- President Blake ,
- Vice President Becker
Quotations About This Subject:
- Power is poison. It's effect on Presidents had always been tragic. ,
- When you get to be President, there are all those things, the honors, the twenty-one gun salutes, all those things. You have to remember it isn't for you. It's for the Presidency. ,
- But there are advantages to being elected President. The day after I was elected, I had my high school grades classified Top Secret. ,
- Jerry Ford is so dumb he can't fart and chew gum at the same time. ,
- Being a President is like riding a tiger. A man has to keep on riding or he is swallowed. ,
- When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President. Now I'm beginning to believe it. ,
- No man will ever bring out of the Presidency the reputation which carries him into it. ,
- I'm the only president you've got. ,
- When the President does it, that means that it is not illegal. ,
- Under a Presidential government, a nation has, except at the electing moment, no influence; it has not the ballot-box before it; its virtue is gone, and it must wait till its instant of despotism again returns.
