President Quotes

Running a business is not the same as being president of the United States.

If George W. Bush is elected president, I'm leaving for France.

[On President Bush's plan to get to Mars in 10 years] Stupid. Robots would do a better job and be much cheaper because you don't have to bring them back.

The day that the Soviets officially crossed the border of Afghanistan, I wrote to President Jimmy Carter: We now have the opportunity of giving to the USSR its Vietnam war.

I want to live and work in Chicago for the rest of my life. You know when you were growing up and you wanted to become president? What I want now is to be mayor of this damned town in ten years.

I am president now, and tired of being kicked around.

Mission accomplished? The mission in Iraq, as laid out by President Bush and Vice President Cheney, has failed.

If it was something that I really committed myself to, I don't think there's anything that could stop me becoming President of the United States.

The president says, 'There is lots of people worse off than the Farmers.' I don't know who it could be unless it is the fellow who holds the Mortgages on the Farms.

The Senate just sits and waits till they find out what the president wants, so they know how to vote against him.

It looks to me like any man that wants to be President in times like these lacks something.

The rest of the people know the condition of the country, for they live in it, but Congress has no idea what is going on in America, so the President has to tell 'em.

The president's need for complete candor and objectivity from advisers calls for great deference from the courts.

What do I "think" of President Reagan? The best answer to give would be: I don't think of him. And the more I see, the less I think.

Why would I want to be president? I'm the king of Disneyland.

We are ready to deal with any President [of U.S], but of course, and I mentioned that, it depends on the readiness of the future Administration.

There is no one else at all who is fighting ISIS on the ground, except for President al-Assad's army.

I want to say that I cannot be intimidated or stopped. In order to put an end to various attempts to get rid of me as a possible candidate, I want to say that I'm running for president.

My mother was the president of the PTA at every school I attended.

President Obama celebrates diversity, yet instinctively seeks common ground and builds on that common ground to make progress.

President Obama's decision to bypass the constitutional advice and consent of the Senate is not an isolated incident.

A lot of people are wanting him [Barack Obama] to be the president just because he's black. But I think he does have some good views.

Apparently Arnold was inspired by President Bush, who proved you can be a successful politician in this country even if English is your second language.

A lawyer from Africa wants to marry Malia Obama in exchange for goats, sheep, and cows. In response, President Obama said, 'Don't be ridiculous. My daughter isn't marrying a lawyer.'

The President of the United States thinks that for the Japanese opium is more dangerous than war.

While President Bush's tax give-aways for the rich are pushing us further into debt, he compensates by increasing the out-of-pocket costs to our veterans.

Once upon a time we did not focus on a president's private life.

No great president in the USA has been primarily a me-first person.

Nobody would put as little thought and effort into buying an automobile as they put into deciding who to elect as President of the United States.

When I talked to him on the phone yesterday. I called him George rather than Mr. Vice President. But, in public, it's Mr. Vice President, because that is who he is.

I'm going to be a vice president very much like George Bush was. He proved to be a very effective vice president, perhaps the most effective we've had in a couple of hundred years.

I think President Obama is a committed, practicing nonideologue. He's consumed by neither tactics nor ideology. He is more concerned about outcomes than he is about process and categorizations

I agree with you that it is the duty of every good citizen to use all the opportunities, which occur to him, for preserving documents relating to the history of our country.

While Republican voters have remained universally supportive of their President, Democrats and Independents are returning to a more naturally critical stance.

We're committed to NATO. From the conversations I've already had with President [Donald] Trump over the phone, he has shown to me his commitment to NATO as well.

No President has ever enjoyed himself as much as I?

I am neither accusing President Obama of having committed high crimes and misdemeanors nor advocating his impeachment.

Katniss, I don't think President Snow will kill Peeta. If he does, he won't have any way to hurt you." "So, what do you think they'll do to him?" I ask. "Whatever it takes to break you.

But the only thing that distracts me from my current situation is fantasizing about killing President Snow.

A college president is like the lawn mower at a cemetary: he has a lot of people under him, but they don't pay much attention to him

Since Social Security was established by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1935 to ensure economic security for American workers, poverty among American seniors has dramatically declined.

President Obama believes that we have a moral obligation to the next generation to leave our land, water, and wildlife better than we found it.

Congress has lost its way if we don't hold this President accountable for his actions.

Health care for all Americans is the most pressing domestic issue today. It's far past time for the President and Congress to deliver health care to everyone.

I am not liked as a President by the politicians in office, in the press, or in Congress. But I am content to abide the judgment - the sober second thought - of the people.

If President Obama really wants to hurt the Syrian government, don't send cruise missiles. He should send over some of his economic advisers.

Okay, Libya. President Obama supported the uprising, correct?... No, that's a different one. I've got to go back, got all this stuff twirling around in my head.

I was so opposed to the war in Vietnam that I initially refused President Nixon's urgings for me to go there.

I think President Obama really does get the value of the arts.

President Erdogan is aiming Turkey at a Sharia nation. That’s where he wants to go. He is a Sharia law, full-fledged, one percent Islamist.