"We are the President"?
SOCCERNUMB
Snopes with "We are the President" and "Hillary Clinton". Unless I missed
something, I didn't see anything on this.
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"I'm not going to have some reporters pawing through our papers. We are the
President."
-- Hillary Clinton commenting on the release of subpoenaed documents.
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I seem to recall the quote, and a Google shows a host of references to it.
However, I am looking for verification. It appears to have been a genuine
quote, but is this in fact so?
SOCCERNUMB
Evan Kirshenbaum
Looking at ProQuest, the earliest mention appears to be by Daniel
Schorr on "All Things Considered", March 16, 1996, but he treats it as
apocryphal:
And the worst quote that I saw in all the book was the quote
attributed to Hillary Clinton, `We are the president,' and
therefore enjoy some kind of special immunity from all of this.
The book in question is James Stewart's _Blood Sport_. There's one
more mention that month in a review of the book and then five more
since then, mostly in lists of "funny things people really said", none
of which mention a source.
So you might want to check out a copy of _Blood Sport_ to see if
Stewart gives some indication of his source.
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Lizz Holmans
<kirsh...@hpl.hp.com> wrote:
>
>Looking at ProQuest, the earliest mention appears to be by Daniel
>Schorr on "All Things Considered", March 16, 1996, but he treats it as
>apocryphal:
>
> And the worst quote that I saw in all the book was the quote
> attributed to Hillary Clinton, `We are the president,' and
> therefore enjoy some kind of special immunity from all of this.
>
>The book in question is James Stewart's _Blood Sport_. There's one
>more mention that month in a review of the book and then five more
>since then, mostly in lists of "funny things people really said", none
>of which mention a source.
>
>So you might want to check out a copy of _Blood Sport_ to see if
>Stewart gives some indication of his source.
Baroness Thatcher, when she was prime minister, famously once
exclaimed 'We are a grandmother' long before President Clinton was
even elected, so I think she should take precedence over the Royal
'We.'
Lizz 'We are not amused' Holmans
Bruce Tindall
>Baroness Thatcher, when she was prime minister, famously once
>exclaimed 'We are a grandmother' long before President Clinton was
>even elected, so I think she should take precedence over the Royal
>'We.'
If an individual King or Queen can call itself "we," then what
kind of hyperplural pronoun did William III and Mary II use?
"Weall"?
B "Knock, knock. Who's there? Banana" T
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Bruce Tindall
>socce...@aol.com (SOCCERNUMB) writes:
>
>> I received the following (along with a multitude of other quotes).
>> I searched Snopes with "We are the President" and "Hillary Clinton".
>> Unless I missed something, I didn't see anything on this.
>>
>> Begin quoted material
>> =======================================================
>> "I'm not going to have some reporters pawing through our papers. We
>> are the President."
>> -- Hillary Clinton commenting on the release of subpoenaed documents.
>> =======================================================
>> End quoted material
>
It's on page 368 of that book. There is no footnote or citation.
Mrs. Clinton is said to have said it "in a meeting". What James
Stewart quotes her as saying is actually: "We're cooperating fully,
we're not claiming any privileges, it's enough. We're the president."
According to Stewart's book, the meeting took place some time
around December 1993.
Stewart has a note on sources at the end of the book. He did a lot
of interviews -- none of them with either Clinton. So presumably his
account is based on accounts of people who were at the meeting with
Mrs. Clinton, but I can't track down any more specific cite.
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TeaLady (Mari C.)
news:bvedn2$14p$1...@panix2.panix.com:
So what was probably a malapropism is become a meme proving some
power-grabbing-through-association thought processes with ULish
connote ?
If they had a photo of her wearing a crown, weilding a sceptre and
standing on the back of dear old Bill, that would make this a lot
more interesting.
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Joe Boswell
<spres...@yahoo.com> writes
>So what was probably a malapropism
Well, perhaps, but based on what has been up as evidence for it so far
it could just as well be a misattribution, mishearing, or an invented
remark.
As already pointed in this thread, our dear Mrs Thatcher made a remark,
preserved on camera, using the royal "we" long ago. It would easy enough
to recast the episode in order to make a story to embarrass somebody
else with.
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R H Draney
>
>If they had a photo of her wearing a crown, weilding a sceptre and
>standing on the back of dear old Bill, that would make this a lot
>more interesting.
Check out the celebrity fake nude newsfroups...if you don't find what you're
looking for, I'm sure someone there would be willing to make it for you....
(Hillary's about as popular there as Kathie Lee Gifford, and for much the same
reasons)....r
Ralph Jones
wrote:
Stange thing for an Orange to say.
rj