President Quotes

It is actually a very good thing, if after eight years of coverage the president of the United States [Barack Obama] says that this is a cooperation based on friendship that we cooperated well.

I approach this with - with an open mind and I'll do it on the basis of a deep conviction with President-elect Donald Trump.

I don't think the special counsel can avoid that question based upon the president's Donald Trump own statements. But I'm not charging obstruction of justice.

Now I wonder who is gonna be president: Tweedle Dumb, or Tweedle Dumber-- And who is gonna have the big block buster box office this summer.

A president from a partner nation should not make comments on Italian politics.

In the spirit of reaching across the aisle, we owe it to the Democrats to show their president the exact same kind of respect and loyalty that they have shown our recent Republican president.

We were terrified that Jones would settle. It was contrary to our purpose of bringing down the president.

If we had complete knowledge, you wouldn't need any intelligence gathering whatsoever. The president isn't god. We do have intelligence gathering.

I love having a president who I think is smarter than I am.

For me, I'm a dancer first. I could be the President of the United States, and I will always be a dancer, first and foremost.

As America, we aren't the country that we should be with Donald Trump as president.

I would prefer to let the president make the decisions that the president needs to make.

The President should be focused on making the lives of Americans better. It's what he promised. It's what the country needs.

I do think that there is pressure in various constituencies to reject the president.

When President George W. Bush cut taxes, he cut them for everyone.

If Mr. Obama wants to get things done, he must recognize that in Washington only the president has the power to make the first big move.

The press secretary who starts to narrow down or close the president's options because he answers delicate negotiating questions no longer serves the president.

The president typically never does comment on anything involving the Supreme Court cases, Supreme Court ruling, or Supreme Court finding, typically.

I would suggest respectfully to the president that he is not the sole decider. The decider is a shared and joint responsibility.

If we had pursued the war on cancer which President Nixon declared in 1970, Jack Kemp might be alive today.

Neither this nation nor this party can afford a candidate so captive to the demands of the intolerant right that we end up re-electing a president of the incompetent left.

Look, the president can discharge all 93 U.S. attorneys for no reason at all, but not for a bad reason.

Any president's second term ends up being quite messy. It never goes quite according to plan.

We all have a role to play - the President, Congress, parents, students and schools - in making college affordable and keeping the middle class dream alive.

And in another point of view, I think it is right that the address of a president should be on his own subject, and that different subjects should be thus brought in turn before the meetings.

Mitt Romney, happens to have the exact skill set that the next president's going to require.

Closing the prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, is a promise President [Barack] Obama made it but has yet to fulfill.

They didn't do this because they have facts, because they have solid proof against me. They did it because the president spoke and now they must prove that he was right and that is my great worry.

President Obama has shown he has the vision to support average consumers and taxpayers.

As president of the United States, I don't bluff.

It's very important that we have a president who is mindful of the cruelty that is perpetrated on animals.

For the sake of our economy, our security, and the future of our planet, I will set a clear goal as President: in ten years, we will finally end our dependence on oil from the Middle East.

You now have the potential of 200 people deciding who ends up being elected president every single time.

There’s no doubt that there’s some folks who just really dislike me because they don’t like the idea of a black President.

The first thing I'd do as president is sign the Freedom of Choice Act.

Jimmy Carter will go down in American history as 'the president who lost Iran,'

Iran has to live up to its international obligations. . . . The president has said that our patience is not unlimited.

A sportswriter once referred to him as our future president. With a name like Kevin, I don't know whether that's possible.

When Michelle and I decided that I would run for President, it was because of a shared belief in the power of community and connection, a commitment to the idea that we are our brothers' keepers.

Ours is not the first generation to understand the dire need for health reform. And I am not the first president to take up this cause, but I am determined to be the last.

If we have actionable intelligence about high value terrorist targets and President [Pervez] Musharraf will not act, we will.

I would not advise people who feel strongly or are concerned about some of the issues that have been raised during the course of the [president electing] campaign.

We've endured too many tragedies. And each time I learn the news I react not as a President, but as anybody else would - as a parent.

One of the things I've learned about being president is that we'll work on issues for long periods of time, sometimes in obscurity.

We can't in any way criticize or at least indict or impeach administration [of Democratic presidents] for doing what they did.

You have to have a strong team around you [being a president].

When I turn over the keys to the president-elect, America will be much stronger than it was when I came into office.

I'm about to embark on what may be as important as an initiative as anything I do as President, trying to nudge the world in the direction of doing something serious about climate change.

To try to blackmail a president into giving them some concessions on issues that have nothing to do with the budget.

My God, Donald Trump is unfit! He's ill-tempered, he's unsuited, he is not qualified, he's unsuited to be president.