President Quotes

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

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

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.

In foreign affairs, the president can do what he wants unless Congress says no. In domestic policy, the president can't do anything unless Congress says yes.

If you're an entrepreneur and you think that the president makes a difference to your business, you should stay at your current job.

I always had to prove myself through my actions. Be a cheerleader. Be class president. Be the editor of the newspaper.

As the president of Afghanistan I look at the suffering of our people as a whole.

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

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.

Social Security is not in crisis. It's a crisis the president's created, period.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

Power is poison. Its effect on Presidents had always been tragic.

[On Richard M. Nixon:] Americans began with a president who couldn't tell a lie and now they have one who can't tell the truth.

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.

Anytime the president visits Nebraska its good for Nebraska.

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

One right decision doth not a great president make.

I'm one of those that believes you can't be one kind of a man and another kind of president.

In a network situation, a vice president, while he's shaving, can decide your history.

Often President Obama's worst critics are Senator Obama and candidate Obama.

President Barack Obama has it right - there is a lot to change about Washington. The problem is, not much will get changed unless we confront the runaway filibuster in the U.S. Senate.

Has President Bush exceeded his constitutional authority or acted illegally in authorizing wiretaps without a warrant? Benjamin Franklin would not have thought so.

Again, President Reagan was sort of an amiable presence out at the ranch by the last 6 months of his presidency. He had no effect on national policy at all.

I remember the day when they sold Brian Deane and Jan Aage Fjortoft. It was like when President Kennedy got shot.

It wouldn't be right for me to clown around when I'm painting a president.

President Barack Obama has stood watch over the greatest job loss in modern American history. And that, my friends, is one inconvenient truth that will haunt this President throughout history.

I think he intends to run for president... I think Senator McCain cares about the opinions of New Hampshire voters.

I just have that sense this is the reason we got Sandra Day O'Connor on the Court in the first place is because Ronald Reagan was running for President.

President Obama attacks success and therefore under President Obama we have less success and I will change that.

President Obama promised to begin to slow the rise of the oceans and heal the planet. My promise... is to help you and your family.

In my opinion, we've elected a Marxist [Barack Obama] to be president of the United States.

President Bush has had an outstanding Secretary of State in Colin Powell and there are not many people who could replace him, making Condoleezza Rice an excellent choice.

Everybody's talking about the President, we all chipped in for a bag of cement.

I was very concerned that President Bush is still trying to frighten or scare the American people with respect to the condition of the Social Security system.

Conservative voters increasingly understand that the one legacy a president can leave is his judicial appointments.

A Masai warrior on a cellphone in the middle of Kenya has better mobile comm than President Reagan did 25 years ago.

Running for president must be like having babies. You have to forget what it was like the last time before you want to do it again.

The American people are entitled to see the president and to hear his views directly, and not to see him only through the press.

My obligation as president, and what I promise the country, is that the courts will be able to do their job free of all pressure.

In recent years, more and more of my time has become absorbed by administrative work for the research council of ETH-Z of which I am presently the president.

I am confident, with the leadership and the backing of the American people, President Obama will turn this country around.

If the President does it, it can't be illegal.

Remember, no one decides who they're going to vote for based on the vice president. I mean that literally.