President Quotes

Every president who has tried to bring about big changes I think elicits the most passionate responses.

I want to make sure that as president of the United States that I'm not asserting in some way that my decisions overrule the decisions of prosecutors who are there to uphold the law.

In fact, the American people did decide, back in 2012, when they elected me president of the United States.

I think where I get frustrated at times was the belief that the president can do anything if he just decides he wants to do it.

As president, I decided that a strong, confident America could advance our national security by engaging directly with the Iranian government. We've seen the results.

America is much less violent than it was 20, 30 years ago, and immigration is much less a problem than it was not just 20, 30 years ago, but when I came in as president.

First of all, I think everybody has to acknowledge don't underestimate the guy [Donald Trump], because he's going to be 45th president of the United States.

You [as a president] have to have a strong team around you. You have to have respect for institutions and the process to make good decisions because you are inherently reliant on other folks.

I reserve the right, as president of the United States to meet with anybody at a time and place of my choosing if I think it's going to keep America safe.

The president [Barack Obama] laid out his vision for foreign policy in a way that we hadn't heard before. And it could be summed up, I think, in two words - realistic idealism.

I'd like to think that "President Obama believed deeply in this democracy and the American people."

Donald Trump is uniquely unqualified to be president.

I don't want ever to be a president who is comfortable and at ease with killing people.

I have been blessed by having, and I admittedly am biased, some of the smartest, hardest-working, and good people in my administration that I think any president has ever had.

I think that whenever you have got an incoming president of the other side it takes a while for people to reconcile themselves with that new reality.

As long as I'm president of the United States Iran will not get a nuclear weapon. I made that clear when I came into office.

[Michelle Obama] used to say to our friends, "Barack's exactly the kind of guy I want to be president. I just wish he didn't want to do it when I was married to him."

I think that I'll always remember the bust of Dr. [Martin Luther] King. I thought having an American here who represented rhat civic spirit that got me into this [president] office was useful.

I have somehow, continued to miss Oktoberfest so that's probably something that is better for me to do as a former president rather than as president, I'll have more fun.

One of the things you discover about being president is that there are all these rules and norms and laws and you got to pay attention to them.

It's one of the biggest benefits of being president that you really don't think about until you get here.

Trump is not somebody who's fit to be president in any circumstances. I would feel deeply frustrated, not because anything he said about me, but because I would fear for the future of our country.

My guiding principle as president has been to try to do the right thing even when it's not politically convenient.

I believe in term limits for presidents because I think that there is no doubt I'm a better president now than I was when I start.

When you have a president-elect who calls the press every name in the book, I think it's a warning shot across the bow, and you go back to what you learn when you were a child.

You know, for one glorious half hour, I was the mother of the president-elect.

I truly believe that before I retire from public office, I'll be voting for a woman for president.

We elected a President, not a Pope.

And remember, this was a president (George W. Bush) who was selected by the Supreme Court rather than the people.

I can tell you about health care and also about the financial reform bill. The Barack Obama, the President personally and his administration officials at his direction were very much involved.

It's a great country, where anybody can grow up to be president . . . except me.

Even a president makes mistakes.

We have to wait and see when Donald J. Trump embarks his new mission, let's say, or position within this administration as President.

I am president, I don't own the country so they are not my forces.

I was accused of insulting the president, insulting Islam, insulting - spreading rumors, disturbing the peace.

Any time the president talks, you listen.

When George Washington was elected president, there was no national vote.

Barack Obama is the worst president in history.

If you're a Christian and you're running for president and you want to make this into a theocracy, I'm not going to support you.

You know, I said in the U.N., I said to President Abbas, "Look, we're in the same city, we're in the same building, for God's sake, the U.N. Let 's just sit down and begin to talk peace."

I only play projects with weird interpretations of presidents.

We don't need a president like a Trump who doesn't actually, George, doesn't even believe in climate change, let alone wants to do anything about it, rejecting science.

As a United States senator, I've got to do everything that I can to make sure that Trump does not become president.

I move that Hillary Clinton be selected as the nominee of the Democratic Party for president of the United States.

It is a public financing system that everybody knows is antiquated. It no longer works. Nobody can become president based on that system.

I'm running for president, because as I go around this nation, I talk to a lot of people. And what I hear is people's concern that the economy we have is a rigged economy.

I would not ask anyone to vote for me based on my last name. I am certainly not campaigning to be president because my last name is Clinton.

Something about the fact that an African American had, given the long sad history of our country, now become President - that was exhilarating.

So we were ecstatic and we swirled around spontaneously, the campus in Ann Harbor and about 4,000 of us landed on the steps of the president of the University of Michigan's home.

It is very important that the president thematically shows where we're going in terms of the vision and an agenda.