President Quotes

I do solemnly swear that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my Ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States

I didn't say 'former president,' I said 'president,' and I have the constitutional rights according to the constitution, including immunity from prosecution.

Hitler didn't snub me - it was our president who snubbed me. The president didn't even send me a telegram.

I really do hope that we have a woman president in my lifetime.

I thought a lot about our Nation and what I should do as President. And Sunday night before last, I made a speech about two problems of our countryenergy and malaise.

There will be great presidents again but there will never be another Camelot.

[In Eritrea] in key positions - president, government, police - everybody's the same [color]. It's a country run by its people. No racial class, everybody feels a part of it.

As for leadership, I am the kind who leads reluctantly and more by example than anything else. Someone had to be on the incorporation papers as president.

Barack Obama would not be President if he were dark skin. You know what I mean? That's just the truth. I might not be as successful as I am now if I was dark skin.

It doesn't matter if you are a musician, a business leader, a president or a student. We all have a responsibility to give back.

When I joined the ANC, I never thought I would be anything. In no way, did I say, 'One day I could be the president. I think I am good material for the presidency.' Not at all.

Happy Hunger Games! And may the odds be ever in your favor.

The single most important thing we want to achieve is for President Obama to be a one-term president.

Watergate was unique because it allowed the public to play its democratic role in expressing its outrage at the presidency. And as a result, for the first time in history a president resigned.

We urge President Bush to abstain from the National Missile Defense, just as we urge China, India and Pakistan to discontinue their nuclear arsenals.

No one is above the law, not even the president. I believe perjury does meet at least the definition of high misdemeanor.

The president of the United States, the most famous person in the world, maybe in the whole galaxy - in a long time - he had to spend like a billion dollars to set the record straight.

One of the first lessons a president has to learn is that every word he says weighs a ton.

Only a madman or an actor would want to be President of the United States.

Is the president purposefully using propaganda and hyperbole to garner the American public for support?

If you see the President, tell him from me that whatever happens there will be no turning back.

As parties began to develop around the turn of the 19th century, you had party nominees for President nominated in caucuses made up of party members in Congress.

While Americans have heard of Darfur and think we should be doing more there, they aren't actually angry at the president about inaction

Mr. President, the only thing that stops a bad guy with a nuke is a good guy with a nuke.

President Obama is the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people.

Ronald Reagan has held the two most demeaning jobs in the country; President of the United States and radio broadcaster for the Chicago Cubs.

Now look at the crowd. We’ve got everybody here tonight: Black, white, Asian, Latinos—and guess what? President Obama says we can all stay! God Bless America!

The president of the branch in Atlanta was a pastor of a church, the Reverend Sam Williams, a wonderful guy. He was middle-class and fairly militant for the time and place.

So, to say Barack Obama is progress is saying that he's the first black person that is qualified to be president. That's not black progress. That's white progress.

Presidents are elected not by direct popular vote but by 538 members of the Electoral College.

The office of president is a bastardized thing, half royalty and half democracy that nobody knows whether to genuflect or spit.

There have been high crimes and misdemeanors, but they have been committed by the special prosecutor and the Congress, not the president.

I cannot, whilst President of the United States, descend to enter into a newspaper controversy.

I like a President who tells jokes instead of appointing them.

The president already has a Nobel Prize for peace. I think he's shooting for one in fiction.

President Obama once said he wants everybody in America to go to college. What a snob.

I think Ronald Reagan was one of the great presidents, period, not just recently. I thought he had the demeanor. I thought he had the bearing. I thought he had the thought process.

Politics: where fat, bald, disagreeable men, unable to be candidates themselves, teach a president how to act on a public stage.

Being a politician is a poor profession. Being a public servant is a noble one.

There is nothing in the Constitution that authorizes or makes it the official duty of a president to have anything to do with criminal activities.

One of the sad signs of our times is that we have demonized those who produce, subsidized those who refuse to produce, and canonized those who complain.

Any man who wants to be president is either an egomaniac or crazy.

And who knows? Somewhere out in this audience may even be someone who will one day follow in my footsteps, and preside over the White House as the President's spouse. I wish him well!

The memory of that scene for me is like a frame of film forever frozen at that moment: the red carpet, the green lawn, the white house, the leaden sky. The new president and his first lady.

It's clear enough that there was substantial fraud in Ohio, thus delivering the Electoral College vote for President Bush.

If I were president of the United States, I would include Moslems in my presidency.

Mr. Vice President, I know you're under a lot of duress to make up for lost ground, but I think people would be better served if we don't keep interrupting each other.

Those jeans are comfortable, and for those of you who want your president to look great in his tight jeans, I'm sorry I'm not the guy. It just doesn't fit me. I'm not 20.

Stroke of the pen. Law of the land. Kinda cool.

Rarely has a U.S. president been so wrong about so much at the expense of so many.