President Quotes

President [George] Bush made the U.S. absolutely the leader, between its own PEPFAR, and it's been by far the biggest Global Fund donor. That's a legacy.

I believe only foreigners should run for president...Face it, the presidency is a lousy job. And who does lousy jobs we don't want anymore better than foreigners?

If a President must constantly remind the people that we're at war, then we're not.

If the NRA keeps messing with the President's daughters, they're going to have to start worrying about Michelle Obama's guns.

You would think there is a higher bar than having a Facebook page to run for president.

I'm okay with it now that Obama’s in office. I'm kind of trusting of him. But President Ted Cruz? Where this is going would bother me.

Obama has had more fundraisers than the last six presidents combined. And he's still losing in the money race!

I was out at the HBO party, these are liberals, I imagine, and a lot of people came up to me and said, "Keep giving it to the president."

As a loyal American and I think a patriotic American, no, I don't want Sarah Palin to be president.

We see more and more of our Presidents and know less and less about what they do.

Barack Obama will go down alongside George W. Bush in that realm as middling presidents because both made too many mistakes to be categorized as an effective, good president.

Folks know that while I respect Barack Obama and do not cheap-shot the president, I am very skeptical of his big government, nanny-state philosophy.

Throughout American history, we have elected presidents who had not been honest man. Warren Harding, Richard Nixon, to some extent, Lyndon Johnson just to name a few.

President Ted Cruz is going to send the feds to his house, take him out and put him on a plane.

I think I understand the Constitution a little bit because in 1971 we went off the gold standard under President Nixon into the Federal Reserve notes because we were a worldwide currency.

The fact that Abraham Lincoln ever, ever became President is either a freak accident of history... or destiny; God's providence to America.

In the years since 9/11, more terrorists have been created through this President's policies than were captured or killed. There weren't any terrorists in Iraq in 2003, but there are now.

Representative William McK. Springer, remarks in the House, quoting Henry Clay: As for me, I would rather be right than be President. Reed: Well, the gentleman will never be either.

Whether it's a sitting president when I was an impeachment manager, or a Republican president who has taken liberties with adherence to the law, to me the standard is the same.

On taking office, Obama promised the 'most transparent' administration in history; yet his record as president has been anything but transparent.

The President Donald Trump has great difficulty with the truth on many issues.

Right now, the leadership in Iran is telling their citizens one thing. Our President is telling us another.

It's going to be hard for someone like me to run for president.

I had a dream that I would be here this week, receiving something from the president, but I thought it would be the front door key.

In what might be a motto of those who sought the presidency and lost, Ted Kennedy once said, "Frankly, I don't mind not being President. I just mind that someone else is."

The president, clearly as a result of the war and the afterglow of the war, is in a time of great attention.

I have performed for 12 presidents and entertained only six.

President Eisenhower has given up golf for painting. It takes fewer strokes.

No president has ever been elected with unemployment over 8 percent.

Are the people who run for president really the best in a country of 240 million? If so, something has happened to the gene pool.

A censure would put an indelible scar on the president's place in history, .. Monica Lewinsky is not Watergate. Let he who has no sin in this chamber cast the first stone.

Whether or not the President is sleeping well won't be a factor in his re-election. That will depend on what he does while he is awake.

Finally, the president added, 'The American people are idealists, but they also want their leaders to be realistic...'

I'm not running for president to be somebody, I'm running for president to do something!

There has been failure, particularly with the effort to protect our coast and our marsh. And that was the biggest topic of discussion in a very frank meeting we had with the president.

The gist of what Mayor Giuliani said - that the President has shown himself to be completely unable to speak the truth about the nature of the threats from these ISIS terrorists - is true.

If I were to run for president, it's because I believe in our country.

[Arnold Schwarzenegger] is really good at ['The New Celebrity Apprentice' show]. Totally different energy to our potential president, but he's cool.

I can't believe George Bush might be president.

The only person who counts in the administration is the president of the United States.

I want my country to be trusted. I don't want anybody running for president telling the unions what they want to hear at the expense of the credibility of the United States.

We've known for years that the president of the United States is a cyberbully, a misogynist who has this thing about women and blood.

Honestly, I think we should just trust our president in every decision he makes and should just support that, you know, and be faithful in what happens.

I recently had the opportunity to vote to give the president limited authority to begin strikes against terrorists in Iraq and Syria.

Nature is inexorable. If men do not follow the truth they cannot live.

It is a great advantage to a President, and a major source of safety to the country, for him to know he is not a great man.

[Sun Yat-sen is a] combined Benjamin Franklin and George Washington of China.

The things we saw happen in the last four years of the Obama administration would all, or many of them, go away under a President Gingrich. It would be a huge setback.

Usually you kind of give the President a pass on leaking confidential stuff.

I don't want to be on the bandwagon of dogging any president or anybody in positions where they have all these different constituencies.