President Quotes

I don't recall an American president basically coming out and criticizing the Israeli public.

I have called President Obama, and President Obama called me on various issues. This is part of our regular contacts, there is nothing unusual or extraordinary about it.

President Obama and I can meet, shake hands and discuss current issues, we - and I am personally - are always ready for such contacts.

We have good personal relationship with President Obama, our relations are quite frank and business-like. And this is quite enough to do our job.

I think back a little bit when President Bush was elected President and what kind of economy he inherited from the Clinton administration. The economy was going down. It was not doing well.

When, President Bush asks me to go with his father to the Tsunami impacted areas and help raise money, I was thrilled to do that, because I think we have to always keep looking for common ground.

President Obama is going to have to run against himself. In tough times, nobody can defeat himself.

Look, at actual Republican and conservative think-tank proposals to replace ObamaCare all have the pre-existing condition provision in, done somewhat differently from [Barack] President Obama's.

Different regions may require different strategies, as President Bush has noted, but not different basic principles. It's either collective security or selective security.

President Reagan is a rhetorical roundheels, as befits a politician seeking empathy with his audience.

I think President Obama has always been a little bit underestimated. Some of the things he's done with foreign policy have been unassailable. Getting us out of Iraq, killing Osama Bin Laden.

All I ever wanted to be president of was the American League.

One of the penalties of being president of the United States is that you must subsist for four years without drinking anything except Californian wine.

President Obama appears to me to have elevated and implemented the artist-activist concept to the role of empowered servant-leader.

I will either be America's greatest president or its last.

When someone asked Abraham Lincoln, after he was elected president, what he was going to do about his enemies, he replied, "I am going to destroy them. I am going to make them my friends."

Nobody has ever expected me to be President. In my poor, lean, lank face, nobody has ever seen that any cabbages were sprouting out.

I am the President of the United States of America, clothed in immense power! You will procure me these votes.

I love Obama. He's my favorite president of all time. I have a giant picture in my apartment in New York that is of his Chicago Tribune cover, Mr. President.

A president cannot meaningfully honor certain token artists while the people at large are so dishonored.'”

Mr President, I have decided not to speak the entire speech which I have.

I'm raising a daughter. I want to be able to say to her, "You can be anything you want. You can be the President of the United States." I'd love that.

Kids, Madison Avenue is lying to you. Your parents are lying to you. The president is lying to you.

If we have George W. Bush as president, we're going to go back to the kind of policies we had when his father and Ronald Reagan were president.

A president who breaks the law is a threat to the very structure of our government.

I don't have the illusion that there's any position or role in the world with as much potential for bringing about change as that of president of the United States.

Somebody had to bring the truth to the doorstep of this president.

John Lewis being attacked as "talk, talk, talk" by president-elect [Donald] Trump because he said he didn't consider him a legitimate president.

People in the age of [President] Obama don't dress like they did in the age of [Lyndon] Johnson. That's for sure.

We're going to continue to move forward and fight. I just think that, unfortunately, the president-elect [Donald Trump] has chosen to address every issue.

Donald Trump announces this morning that he will run for president. His hair will announce on Friday.

Democracy only works, as President [Barack] Obama spoke of in his farewell message, if it's driven by the people and the people stay active and vigilant and speak out and let their concerns be known.

So I think that I can say, as the President of Poland, we're proud that I am coming from Poland, which is different and what's more important, much better than before.

My advice would be to whoever is going after judges by name, whether it's the president or anybody else, I think it's a terrible idea. I don't think it's a very smart thing to do a Muslim ban.

President Putin will run again in the 2018 election. He wants to be the czar of this new Russian empire that he is rebuilding. I think he is really obsessed with the idea.

Bush has said something new. He said, "If I will be president again, I will be a man of peace and serenity." May the Lord curse the liars, wherever they may be.

When President Nixon said that the American people don't want their foreign policy dictated from the street, unfortunately, he said the most clever political statement I think he's ever said.

PRESIDENT, n. The leading figure in a small group of men of whom - and of whom only - it is positively known that immense numbers of their countrymen did not want any of them for President.

Coolidge was a federalist. You go back and read him and it's almost intimidating to write about him because he writes better himself than anyone. He's one of the best writers as presidents go.

Coolidge's stat was so low; he's ranked in the bottom half of presidents. What I found when I encountered this man was the leader I might like to see today.

If Hillary Clinton can be president, then one girl can be mayor.

If Hillary Clinton can be president, then one girl can be mayor. And someone else can be a police chief, and someone else can be a U.S. senator.

It's never a good time, when you're the president of the United States and your own party is finding lots of different ways to distance themselves from you.

Anderson [Cooper]!Hillary Clinton is running as the first female president who has a sitting president and first lady much more popular than she will ever be.

I would sincerely regret, and which never shall happen whilst I am in office, a military guard around the President.

There is something about hearing your president affirm your humanity that you don't know what effect it has until you hear it.

It is not an opinion that "enhanced interrogation techniques" are torture. It is a legal fact. And it is also a legal fact that the president is a war criminal.

President Jimmy Carter was a citizen soldier. Ironically, he was considered weak because he didn't kill anybody and he didn't get anyone killed.

I'm already suspicious of anyone who thinks he or she is smart enough to be president. You'd have to have some ego to believe that about yourself.

Most college students are not as smart as most college presidents.