President Quotes

I'd read a lot of thrillers about politicians and presidents, but never one where you flip the stereotypes and make good people bad and bad people good.

Over the course of the year 1990, the then Chancellor Helmut Kohl and Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher had many conversations with President [Mikhail] Gorbachev and other Soviet officials.

President Obama hasn't been elected by the American people in order to be pleasant to Russia.

Jeb Bush may run for President. Bush presidencies are like 'Caddyshack' movies. They should have stopped with one.

The last thing we need is another Clinton to be our President. Believe me, one lowlife was enough. We don't need the lowlife's partner.

We have bad things happen, but it's not like Syria, which we ignore and pretend doesn't happen. We've got it pretty good, no matter who the president is, to be honest.

If Colin Powell was president, I'd follow him. I wanna get into politics. That's the way for us to overcome a lot of our obstacles.

I'd rather be right than President.

It appears that President Obama is making great progress on climate change, he is changing the political climate in the country back to Republican.

I do think it's often a mistake to call them climate skeptics. I think they're deniers, just as I think president Ahmadinejad of iran who claims not to believe that the Holocaust occurred.

Celebrating Christmas without Christ is like celebrating George Washington's birthday without mentioning the first president.

We need a great president who can lead us through the great challenges we face.

Whatever it took to get elected president of the United States, I don't think being a complete and utter moron is one of those predicates.

We need a president who is focused on defeating every single ISIS terrorist and protecting the homeland, which should be the first priority.

I think it's time we had a president who carried the same life experiences into the White House as most ordinary Americans.

I still think in this country, and this might surprise you, the one thing that George Bush said as president that I do agree with, I love that phrase, "the soft bigotry of low expectations."

President Obama had lunch with Republican leaders at the White House today and had to do without salt, pepper and butter. Not for dietary reasons. The Republicans refused to pass anything.

I'm very proud that a woman, has finally been chosen as a candidate for the president of the United States, because I always felt women should be treated like first-class citizens.

Casey Anthony was found not guilty. This means that President Obama’s economic team is only the second-most clueless group in America.

I don't feel qualified to be president either, but I've got the job.

Some of the presidents were great and some of them weren't. I can say that, because I wasn't one of the great presidents, but I had a good time trying to be one, I can tell you that.

President Obama told a group of school children that broccoli was his favorite food, and they believed him. Then he told them Obamacare would reduce the deficit and the kids all busted out laughing.

When the president decides something on Monday, he still believes it on Wednesday - no matter what happened Tuesday.

Better to be ordinary people in a superior country than to be a president in a disreputable country.

We are a nation of laws. And nobody can ignore our Constitution. No one's above the law. And that includes the president of the United States.

Donald Trump is going to be an unconventional president. I really think we have a great opportunity in front of us to fix problems, produce results, and improve people's lives.

The president has declared that the debate over government-controlled health care is over. That will come as news to the millions of Americans who will elect Mitt Romney so we can repeal Obamacare.

What's with the poverty Tourette's? Why do these two think we need a hobo for president?

The election moment is merely the American public saying, "We'd rather you be President than that guy." That's it.

You can track elections by who was playing that president on 'SNL' at that time. There's the theory that the more likable or charismatic impression would help get the president elected.

If the President asked you to help, I don't think anybody could refuse, unless one felt that one couldn't be effective.

This president [Barack Obama] is someone who has done more to protect and keep together families with DACA and then with DAPA.

We hope that diplomacy works before you ever use force. The hardest decision a president makes is ever to use force.

We need an energy bill that encourages consumption.

Certainly I had my preference, and I very much hoped that George W. Bush would be our next president.

Just had lunch with the president who seems pensive, slightly deflated, realistic, aggravated and resolute. Didn't eat his pie.

The Constitution gives the president of the United States an extraordinarily wide grant of authority to use the power of the pardon.

I wish I wasn't the war president. Who in the heck wants to be a war president? I don't.

Washington has never seen anything like President Donald Trump.

I can't imagine anybody disagrees with President Trump when he says, if we don't take care of our veterans, who are we really as a nation?

It is a good thing to demand liberty for ourselves and for those who agree with us, but it is a better thing and a rarer thing to give liberty to others who do not agree with us.

At the end of the day, when it comes time to make that decision, as president, all you have to guide you are your values, and your vision, and the life experiences that make you who you are.

The job of the president of the United States is not to love his wife; it's to manage a wide range of complicated issues.

Presidents and Lyndon Johnson was really no exception, very rapidly learned the difference between a contingency plan and an authorized act.

Donald Trump is a racist. Donald Trump in fact is making fascist appeals. That's why many self-respecting Republicans are not supporting Donald Trump for president.

We need our president to be successful because our futures are all tied to the success of America, which means America's government, which means, in essence, the president.

A campaign is a disagreement, and disagreements divide. But an election is a decision, and decisions clear the way for harmony and peace. I mean to be president of all the people.

A President is neither prince nor pope, and I don't seek a window on men's souls. In fact, I yearn for a greater tolerance, an easy-goingness about each other's attitudes and way of life.

Clinton was a pretty good president for a Republican.

If there are threats to the United States, then I would of course go back to the president and make a recommendation that may include the use of U.S. military ground force.