President Quotes

Consumer: A person who is capable of choosing a president but incapable of choosing a bicycle without help from a government agency.

We have a president [Barack Obama] that doesn't know what's happening, and when it comes to the military.

My men and I have decided that our boss, the president of the United States, is as tough as woodpecker lips.

To have united the purposes of an entire Nation, is the great historical achievement of the man in whose strong hands our President has placed the fate of our people.

It's very difficult to pin down the President of the United States without subpoena powers.

This is Preservation Month. I appreciate preservation. It's what you do when you run for president. You gotta preserve.

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.

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.

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.

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

Anytime the president visits Nebraska its good for Nebraska.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

A President doesn't have a terribly long time to talk to people who are not really on the agenda.

The fact of the matter is it's very reasonable to ask the wealthiest estates to pay their share. We did that since Teddy Roosevelt, a Republican president.

As President Bush has said on numerous occasions, it is the government's role to create the conditions, the friendly environment, that will attract capital.

I don't have a right to pick the president's cabinet on substance.

You will NOT make $60,000 a year right out of high school. You won't be a vice-president with a car phone until you earn both.

The price of being close to the President is delivering bad news. You fail him if you don't tell him the truth. Others won't do it.

If I hadn't been President of the United States, I probably would have ended up a piano player in a bawdy house.

If the President really wanted to know exactly how Rove and Libby were involved, he could walk down to their offices and demand that they answer him honestly.

In my opinion eight years as president is enough and sometimes too much for any man to serve in that capacity.

In my wildest dreams, I never would have thought wed come to the point where were talking about the re-election of a black president.

I believe President Bush is one of the most dangerous leaders in the world. He is not in search of peaceful and diplomatic solutions.

If you foul up, tell the President and correct it fast. Delay only compounds mistakes.

Make decisions about the President's personal security. He can overrule you, but don't ask him to be the one to counsel caution.

Let me tell you, the first president to recognize the state of Israel was Harry Truman, a Democrat. And every president since, Democrat and Republican, have stood closely with Israel.

Only the aspirants for president are fool enough to believe what they read in the newspapers.

We just sent our condolences to the President of the United States and the American people on what is a terrible, terrible tragedy.

The turkey that President Obama will pardon this Thanksgiving is from California. The turkey said, "I don't need a pardon. I need a job.'

One of your tasks is to separate the 'personal' from the 'substantive.' The two can become confused, especially if someone rubs the President wrong.

I think Barack Obama is a one-term President.

Bush does not want to go down in history as the president who lost in Iraq. His strategy to the extent he has one is to hang tough and let whoever succeeds him take the fall.

Vice-President Ford, possibly preparing for higher duties, assessed Kissinger's part in the Syrian-Israeli troop disengagement as "the great diplomatic triumph of this century or perhaps any other.

I kill kings and presidents first, and next all capitalists.

Pen in Barack Obama hands is far more dangerous than any other president, at least in modern history, if not ever.

He's looking for the president's kidnapped daughter; everybody he calls on to help him is busy, but lo and behold, you look across the room, and I'm waiting for that action.

See that the President, the Cabinet and staff are informed. If cut out of the information flow, their decisions may be poor, not made, or not confidently or persuasively implemented.

What the president announced yesterday, is that somehow magically, if we just continue to prime the pump of taxpayer dollars, we're going to see magically an economic recovery.

I don't know why his lawyers didn't tell him, 'You don't have to answer any questions about your private life, Mr. President. Let them sue you. Take the heat. You don't have to answer.'

In all my public and private acts as your president, I expect to follow my instincts of openness and candor with full confidence that honesty is always the best policy in the end.

Insiders say that Trump is running for president as a publicity stunt. That's not the Donald Trump I know.

Being President is a little bit like riding a tiger. You have to keep riding, or else you will be swallowed up by it!

The fact that a former senator and secretary of state claimed not to know what the letter "C" means is just one more example why she is totally unfit to hold the office of president. Totally unfit.