President Quotes

President [Barack] Obama is a man who had certain advantages because of the civil rights movement.

The exceptionalism of a black U.S. President is not important to me. It's what he does - and who he has at the table.

It seems to me that our presidential elections have turned more into a popularity contest than a real analysis about who really should be President of the United States.

The danger with running for president is sooner or later some sound bite is going hit.

I can see Obama trying to be the president who suggests solutions for everyone who has experienced economic hardship.

I doubt if there will ever be another Republican president in my lifetime.

The president is always made fun of.

I think that the millions and millions of young Americans, young Americans, who have health care today, who wouldn't have had it if the president hadn't acted are better off.

Two years before the last election you nor anyone else would have predicted that Barack Obama was going to get elected president of the United States.

Tim Kaine has been obviously a governor. He's been a senator. He's one of the smartest rising stars in the Democratic Party. He is very plausible as someone who could sit in and be president.

I'm a little uncomfortable with the idea of judges overruling presidents on national security matters.

If I had to fault President [Barack] Obama, I would say that sometimes governs like a visitor from a morally superior civilization.

When you're running for president you have to take some risks and you've got to show people something fresh and you've got to stay interesting.

Woe to you who insults the intelligence community, if you're president.

When a president speaks that usually means a lot.

Nonetheless, so whether it's unconstitutional or not [for judges to overruling presidents], I leave to others.

I generally think the president [Donald Trump] should get his Cabinet picks, unless they're egregiously out of the range, either ethically or intellectually out of the range of what's acceptable.

Hillary Clinton continues to say Donald Trump's unacceptable, he doesn't have the character to be president. He is saying - continues saying she needs to be in prison.

[Donald Trump] has shifted - President [Barack] Obama has shifted American policy in a much more critical way in Israel with the settlements than the previous presidents.

So long as Donald Trump is powerful and popular, Fox News is going to achieve an advertising bonanza unheard of in the era of modern cable, because people will pay them to talk to the president.

Presidents who restrict civil liberties, even in wartime, are usually judged harshly for it.

I'm hard pressed to give an example on the spot of a president who explicitly spoke of the vindication of history, but I'm confident that there are many such examples.

John Kerry told Tom Ridge he was too busy to receive a Homeland Security briefing. I thought that was odd, since you're not supposed to ignore terrorist threats until after you become president.

Al Gore has endorsed Howard Dean for president. That's pretty fitting, the guy that didn't beat Bush endorsing the guy who won't beat Bush.

Mitt Romney is not going to run for president. Mitt said it's time for fresh faces. So that's good news for Bruce Jenner.

How would Trump travel as president? Obviously, he'd use Hair Force One.

Ted Cruz could be president of the United States. If you thought the Secret Service was drinking before

Texas Senator Ted Cruz announced he is running for president. Ted Cruz was born in Canada, his father fled to the United States from Cuba, and yet Ted Cruz is against immigration. Isn't that odd?

Every day is President's Day when you have an intern!

Political pundits are saying President George W. Bush has made gains in two key states: dazed and confused.

But down in Florida in the early voting, there were computer glitches, confusing ballots, long lines and chaos. And when President Bush heard about this, he said, 'Mission accomplished!'

President Bush wants to build a space station on the moon. And from the moon, he wants to launch people to Mars. You know what this means. He's been drinking again.

CIA Director George Tenet has now testified before the 9/11 commission and he said we are still making the same dumb mistakes, like leaving memos on the President's desk.

Donald Trump is talking about running for president. He hasn't made an announcement, but I want to tell you something. The fake suspense is killing me.

Mitt Romney is not going to be running for president. So you know what that means. We are getting closer and closer to 'President Trump.'

Mitt Romney is running for president again. That will be attempt No. 3. Well, everybody needs a hobby. He's almost certainly running, and I'm almost certainly retiring, so I don't care.

The White House says that the vacation in Texas will give President Bush the chance to unwind. My question is, when does the guy wind?

President Bush announced that the war in Iraq has been won. It's all over, it's been won. I believe this would be Bush's first uncontested victory.

President Obama, by the way, is, I think, making his first presidential European trip. And while he's there in Europe, he plans to fire the CEO's of BMW and Volkswagen.

One of the dogs in the competition, a Portuguese Water Dog, is related to President Obama's dog, Bo. But they only see each other at funerals and weddings.

Guess who's running for president? Jeb Bush. Jeb was governor of Florida and he speaks fluent Spanish, which raises the question: What language did his brother speak? What was that?

Bush met with former President Jimmy Carter. Jimmy Carter is 76 years old, or as Democrats call him 'their bright new star of the future.'

My first instinct was Selina Meyer (Julia Louis-Dreyfus) cannot be president of the United States. She needs to lose because it's the thing she wants most on the planet Earth.

Torturous advances won over generations can be lost by a single stroke of a myopic president's pen or a vainglorious general's sword.

The first official statements of President Asif Ali Zardari's new government have been firm and robust. Pakistan is obviously a renewed democracy.

I'm just a newsboy who met a President.

We can hope that the responsibilities and realities will weigh on Donald Trump and he will not be the president we fear, but rather something more stable.

If I were president, I would turn the tables and allow the fetus to abort its mother.

At what point do [progressives] take off our partisan blinders and start wondering whether a very powerful faction of Democrats actually continues to SUPPORT President Bush and the War in Iraq?

[President Truman] was free of the greatest vice in a leader, his ego never came between him and his job.