President Quotes

It is the function of the President, representing the executive principle, to execute the laws.

My dad is a bank president and my mom was an accountant and they didn't think that seeking the life of a freelance writer was very practical, you see. Of course, I was just as determined to do it.

[Ronald]Reagan and[George W.] Bush were far more radical than other presidents.

I don't think ultimately presidents are judged by crowd sizes at their inauguration. I think they're judged by their accomplishments.

You can be a great president and be ridden with flaws. Of course we know that.

President Obama will not be able to contain himself, and he will go after Mr. Trump every single chance he gets once Obama is out of office.

It's very noble of President Obama to want to stay at the helm and maybe go down with this sinking ship.

Reagan's dead, and he was a lousy President.

It's a sad day when a cartoon is doing more and cares more and pays more attention to the environment than our president.

In his 4 years in the White House, President Carter worked to make the Federal Government more competent and compassionate and more responsive to the American people.

And I, unfortunately, have been to too many disasters as president.

Black child poverty is higher. As I write in the epilogue, "Yes we can. No he didn't. President [Barack] Obama didn't push black people backward, but he missed the opportunity to move us forward."

I ask the vice president to stop dodging the issue with legalese, and acknowledge his continued ties with Halliburton to the American people.

Today, I will vote in support of the Marriage Protection Amendment. I shall do so because like President Bush, I strongly believe that marriage should be between a man and a woman.

As a president I will be like the candidate that I am, a respectful candidate, a rallying candidate, a normal candidate for a normal presidency, at the service of the Republic.

Mr. President, call the toady of American imperialism to order.

I was outraged to learn that the president wanted to outsource operations at some American ports to the United Arab Emirates.

A salute from this corner to President Bush for saying he was willing to investigate raising or eliminating the cap on salaries subject to the Social Security tax.

President Obama is the most successful food stamp president in American history. I would like to be the most successful paycheck president in American history.

I will be the president of the nation who keeps pledges.

Mr. President, it may surprise my colleagues, but I am no fan of federal disaster programs for agriculture. They are difficult to pass and often a disaster to implement.

I neither will aspire to nor will I accept, the position of president of the council of state and commander in chief.

No matter how you rearrange President Obama's inner circle, it still looks, smells and tastes like a rotten Chicago deep-dish pizza.

No prince, no king, no president has ever lived a better life than I have!

Egyptian President Sadat had a belly dancer entertain President Nixon at a state dinner. Mr. Nixon was really impressed. He hadn't seen contortions like that since Rose Mary Woods.

I deal with guys in their 20s and early 30s who are presidents of companies, who are movie directors.

My job is to give the president and secretary of defense military advice before they know they need it.

I'm not running for Vice President, I'm not looking to be anyone's vice president, I want to be the president.

In the year 1857, passing through Washington on our return from the annual visit to Philadelphia, I had the distinguished honor of visiting a President for the first time.

I think an overwhelming portion of the intensely demonstrated animosity toward President Barack Obama is based on the fact that he is a black man, that he's African American.

President O[bama] talks the talk and then walks a completely different walk. I would call him the divider-in-chief.

It seems very unfortunate that in order to secure political preference, people are made Vice President who are never intended, neither by party nor by the Lord, to be Presidents.

...our state will not...secede. Have no doubt but Lincoln will make a good president - at least we ought to give him a fair trial.

In America the President reigns for four years, and Journalism governs forever and ever.

Success in war underpins the claims to greatness of many presidents.

Donald Trump removed all doubt. He is running for president as a fascist demagogue.

I want to start by saying something nice about President Bush. Of all the presidents we've had with the last name of Bush, his economic plan ranks in the top two.

I have allowed the president to pick his political appointees…But I will not sit quietly and let him shred the Constitution.

President Bush and his commanders announced early in the conflict that the Conventions applied.

The truth of the matter is President Trump brought together the Republican Party and the conservative movement.

If anyone is crazy enough to want to kill a president of the United States, he can do it. All he must be prepared to do is give his life for the president's.

I am not the Catholic candidate for President. I am the Democratic Party's candidate for President, who happens also to be a Catholic.

The other night, the president gave a speech. He said, "children are our most prescious natural resource". I thought, "let's hope it never comes to that".

For me, I want a president who is more than a symbol, someone who has ideas that I align with.

I think with new president Chris Pook of CART, he is very active and strong.

As Justice Sandra Day O'Connor stated, even a state of war is not a blank check for a president to do whatever he wants.

That peculiarly American religion, President-worship.

Consider Palin for President? The most powerful job on earth? You don't give the dumb cheerleader the Uzi. That's in the Bible.

I support immediate financial assistance to the newly elected Palestinian president. Now, I don't know what those numbers will be, and I don't know how it's going to be framed.

I look forward to these confrontations with the press to kind of balance up the nice and pleasant things that come to me as president.