President Quotes

This is exactly why the Electoral College is set up the way it is, so that one state would not elect the president.

It is irresponsible for this Congress to not investigate the President's lack of an exit strategy, and the fraud, waste, and abuse of U.S. tax dollars.

That's the premise of the Saudi Arabians. He's holding the president's hand with one. In the other hand, he's got his hand in the pocket of American consumers

One of my biggest inspirations is President Hugo Chavez of Venezuela. Yea, President Hugo.

In exchange for power, influence, command and a place in history, a president gives up the bulk of his privacy.

President Obama released his tax returns. It turns out he made $900,000 less in 2011 then he did in 2010. You know what that means? Even Obama is doing worse under President Obama.

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.

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.

Refuse to accept the narrative of history laid down by presidents, prime ministers, generals and journalists.

The first thing you need to run for President is a budget of around $20 million dollars a day.

When I talk about the assets, that was at the beginning of the talks. I was president then. I'm not president now. When I said it, this would be a sign of goodwill to begin the talks.

Everybody has their own idea of what's a poet. Robert Frost, President Johnson, T.S.Eliot, Rudolf Valentino - they're all poets. I like to think of myself as the one who carries the light bulb.

I want a president who can handle a cream soda.

[On Ronald Reagan:] The President doesn't want yes-men around. When he says no, we all say no.

He glosses over and doesn't even tell the truth....Here is a guy who is the ultimate flip-flopper running for president, and he's attacking me for not being principled? That doesn't wash.

I'm a conservative Republican. I have been since I was 15 years old and participated in the 'Goldwater for President' campaign in 1964.

The worrying thing is there's so much latent hatred of the guy [Donald Trump] and this guy isn't even president yet.

My father was not a failure. After all, he was the father of a president of the United States.

The nation will be shaped for decades by decisions that are made by President Bush and the Senate about the future of the Supreme Court.

Year after year, President Bush has broken his campaign promises on college aid. And year after year, the Republican leadership in Congress has let him do it.

It serves notice that President Bush is serious about promoting freedom, because free societies are a lot more peaceable than dictatorships and monarchies.

We do not believe voters gave President Bush a mandate to turn back the clock decades on so many of our legal protections.

Many years ago, I concluded that a few hair shirts were part of the mental wardrobe of every man. The president differs from other men in that he has a more extensive wardrobe.

So the American government lied to the Native Americans for many, many years, and then President Clinton lied about a relationship, and everyone was surprised! A little naïve, I feel!

We haven't been happy with the way the war has been handled. The president has changed his reasons for being over there every time a reason is proven false or an objective reached.

[On Vice-President Henry A. Wallace:] Much of what Mr. Wallace calls his global thinking is, no matter how you slice it, still globaloney.

I don't want to be the president of the world. I'm the President of the United States.

I can find no warrant for such appropriation in the Constitution.

Look, when you're the president, there's all kinds of things said about us. I mean, it's just the nature of the job.

Presidents make history but are also a product of it. And there are two kinds: transforming and transactional. Reagan was a transforming president. He made history.

The world is a more tragic and dangerous place when American isn't leading and, under this president, we have not been leading.

The President so far has struck me as a man who is trying hard to keep his balance. He certainly has been very receptive to all my efforts in these directions.

We've had no evidence that Saddam Hussein was involved with the September 11th.

I never voted for a president until I felt Obama had a dream and might pull it off, and that was the first time I ever voted for a president.

I refused to conform to an image that a lot of people thought a president's brother should adopt.

People are too pretentious in France to like Sarkozy. But he'd be a fabulous president for America.

Anytime the president visits Nebraska its good for Nebraska.

I believe with all my heart that one cannot be America's president without a belief in God, without the strength that your faith gives you.

President Jimmy Carter inherited an impossible situation - and he and his advisers made the worst of it.

Hillary Clinton almost got to be president. The reasons why she didn't become president had to do with bad judgments about how to handle the early caucus states, which is not a gender-specific trait.

'I don't say a Zionist must be insane,' said President Weizmann, 'but it helps if he is.'

The President is going to benefit from me reporting directly to him when I arrive.

Washington was a typical American. Napoleon was a typical Frenchman, but Lincoln was a humanitarian as broad as the world. He was bigger than his country - bigger than all the Presidents together.

There are big issues, like the reform of the Security Council. These kinds of questions are something the President of the General Assembly must keep his eye on.

I think I'd be a better president because I was in combat.

The liberation of Iraq is a crucial advance in the campaign against terror. We've removed an ally of al Qaeda.

As a general matter, if the president wants to withdraw from a treaty, he simply gets to do that. And that's part of the powers of the office.