Presidency Quotes

In the course of his presidency, Obama has gone from an almost magical charismatic figure to an ordinary politician. Ordinary. Average.

This is how the great post-partisan, post-racial, New Politics presidency ends - not with a bang, not with a whimper, but with a desperate election-eve plea for ethnic retribution.

I think the presidency is much too serious a thing to just play politics with.

What he's saying is that a Trump presidency will address those kind of things head on without caving into the special interests like the teachers union, which Mrs. Clinton has completely sold out to.

Trump's inability to control his own emotions is standing between himself and the presidency.

Not only can [business conflicts] not be ignored, it needs to be dealt with really front and center before he can conduct [Donald's Trump] presidency.

I am happy and proud that during one year of presidency, my initiatives have been strongly supported by the people and society and we have launched the process of vitally important state reforms.

I think the presidency is a bad way to measure the effective campaign finance, because in the presidency, there is so much publicity, there's so much money floating around.

Donald Trump's big goal is to become the richest man in the world, abusing the powers of the presidency.

People should make distinctions between the office of the presidency and the person who occupies it. You can respect the office even as you lose respect for the individual.

Trump says that if he's elected, he won't let the presidency interfere with the Miss Universe pageant.

Throughout his presidency, Clinton made a point of getting close - physically and emotionally - to the people whose problems his administration was working to solve.

Zeroes are important. A million seconds ago was last week. A billion seconds ago, Richard Nixon resigned the presidency. A trillion seconds ago was 30,000 BC, and early humans were using stone tools.

Hillary Clinton should never have been allowed to run for the presidency based on what she did with e-mails and so many other things.

There's never been a presidency that's done so much in such a short period of time, and we haven't even started the big work yet.

I'm doing this [running for presidency] for the people and for the movement, and we will take back this country for you and we will make America great again.

Hillary Clinton may be the most corrupt person ever to seek the presidency of the United States.

I think you need clarity with financing [for presidency campaign]. I do think this. I think that you need clarity, you have to be able to see who's giving.

The irresponsible rhetoric of Barack Obama, who has used the pulpit of the presidency to divide us by race and color, has made America a more dangerous environment than frankly I have ever seen.

Hillary Clinton is the most corrupt politician ever to seek the office of the presidency.

The last few months of George Bush's presidency brought Obama and nobody can be happy about that.

The power of the presidency is important, but it is not determinative.

I know that given great responsibility men sometimes change, but Mr. Nixon's Presidency would worry me.

[A]n Obama presidency would be an amusing approximation of the Carter administration, complete with vaporous moralizing and foreign policy bungling.

As with almost every significant aspect of the Bush presidency, its handling of 9/11 was a catastrophe from start to finish.

Certainly there are worse sins than doing everything possible to make your presidency matter.

Few progressives would take issue with the argument that, significant accomplishments notwithstanding, the Obama presidency has been a big disappointment.

If any of you are secret poets, the best way to break into print is to run for the presidency.

I read the book with interest, but when Jackson was a candidate in 1828 for the Presidency, I opposed him and voted for Adams. I favored a protective tariff.

You don't run for the presidency out of nostalgia.

Ever since I was a young man, I wanted to run for the presidency in the worst possible way - and I did.

I seek the presidency because I believe deeply in the American promise and can no longer accept the diminishing of that promise.

I really do put it on Bill Clinton's presidency as the time when the Democrats became the party of the college degree as the key to success in life.

The nature of the presidency is that sometimes you don't choose which challenges come to your desk. You do decide how to respond.

I would say the best moment of all was when I caught a 7.5-lb. perch in my lake. (Answering a reporter who asked him to name the best moment of his Presidency.)

I'd also remind people, if I were running for Presidency, that a long-term problem facing the budget is Social Security and Medicare.

My post-presidency is evolving.

George H. W. Bush. He's been a classy guy in his post-presidency.

I believe that freedom is a gift from an Almighty to every man, woman, and child; that is a principle that was important to me during my presidency and I think it's an important principle.

If someone came to me and said, "Your strategy in your post-presidency is brilliant," as if I had figured out a way to make me look better, to me, that analysis is amusing.

Having purpose. I had purpose during my presidency, and I've got purpose after my presidency.

I made friends during my presidency.

One thing you had to learn [after the presidency] was that you no longer had the sense of responsibility that became ingrained in your system.

I'm forever a former president and I understand that, but at this point in my post-presidency, I don't want to be involved with politics.

I don't want to interfere with my successor's presidency.

I think I'm the only president other than John Kennedy who had both parents alive during the presidency.

The problem is, there was plenty of trash talk during my presidency. A lot.

I am comfortable knowing that I put my heart and soul into the presidency.

The presidency is a serious job that requires sound judgment and good ideas, and there's no doubt in my mind that Jeb Bush has the experience and the character to be a great president.

The great contest for the presidency is about the future, who can lead, who can get things done.