President Quotes

There is an institutional cynicism that causes reporters to question everything the President says, and the motives of everything the President and his Administration try to accomplish.

I think a lot of presidents learn to be president by being president.

I was student council president in high school, and even in law school, I was vice-president of the student bar association.

I don't want a president like me! I suck, okay. I want an elitist, smart guy.

We cannot take the president off the hook for an illegal war that was based on lies.

I'm extremely moved by the loving, caring relationship the President always seems to have with his imaginary son.

President Bush gave his first-ever presidential radio address in both English and Spanish. Reaction was mixed, however, as people were trying to figure out which one was which.

The election, and even the re-election, of a black man as president, in a country that is 87 percent non-black - a first in human history - has had no impact on what are called 'racial tensions.'

Hillary Clinton is unworthy of being the President of the United States; she has done nothing important that is good

Virtually nothing Barack Obama has done has left America or the world better since he became president. Nearly everything he has touched has been made worse.

As social secretary, I was responsible for putting together all the events that the President and the First Lady host.

If the president Donald Trump thinks he can fire Deputy Attorney General Ron Rosenstein and replace him with someone who will shut down the investigation, he's in for a rude awakening.

A conversation does not have to be scintillating in order to be memorable. I once met a president of the United States, and his second sentence to me was about knees.

You got to have people at the top who respond to and are selected by presidents.

I do not believe the President requires any additional authorization from the Congress before committing US forces to achieve our objectives in the Gulf.

Westerners know the difference between a talker and the real deal. If Rick Perry wasn't right to be governor of Texas, why should he be president?

In going too far, they [presidents] have taken away the individual rights of American citizens.

The Department of Education should not be producing paid political advertising for the president, it should be helping us to produce smarter students.

And the president should be doing more about education than saying, 'Lights, camera, action.'

When you succeed (with legislation), that feeling is exhilaration. And it takes leadership from a president, which means you meet with members of Congress 24/7 and you talk and you listen.

If you want to run for president, you better be an athlete. It's 24/7. It never ends. You give up your personal life completely and you have something of a chance to be shot.

When I'm president, we'll have executive orders to overcome any wrong thing the Supreme Court does tomorrow or any other day

The White House will run itself while the president is away. That's why he has to be sure not to be away too much.

The typical presidential staff resents the vice-president even more than they do the first lady.

Presidents generally do what they are good at in their first four years, then spend their second term responding to the agendas imposed upon them by events.

I am not in politics. 'President Mutombo?' No, no, no. There has never been a politician in my family, and I am not going to try to be the first one.

Barack Obama is the most antibusiness president in a generation, perhaps in American history.

Barack H. Obama is a landmark presidential figure as the first black, multiracial, multicultural president from Hawaii and the Pacific.

President Putin and President Trump-they both insist on their priority as national interest.

I think if Rusian and U.S. presidents meet each other, if they exchange views, then there will be a chance for our volatile relations to get better.

Do people still shoot at presidents? I thought there were more stimulating targets.' (20)

There's never a dearth of reasons to shoot at the President.

Scaramucci said he wants to narrow the gap between what he thinks of the president and what he sees as the press' view of Trump.

If in doubt, move decisions up to the President.

Preserve the President's options. He may need them.

A few. . . critics are the only people I ever heard use the phrase 'imminent threat.' I didn't, the president didn't.

Be able to resign. It will improve your value to the President and do wonders for your performance.

When asked for your views, by the press or others, remember that what they really want to know is the President's views.

Know that the immediate staff and others in the Administration will assume that your manner, tone and tempo reflect the President's.

Don't accept the post or stay unless you have an understanding with the President that you're free to tell him what you think "with the bark off" and you have the courage to do it.

Most of the 50 or so invitations you receive each week come from people inviting the President's Chief of Staff, not you. If you doubt that, ask your predecessor how many he received last week.

Leave the President's family business to him. You will have plenty to do without trying to manage the First Family. They are likely to do fine without your help.

A president has to provide leadership to gain support.

Every president when he is elected has to live with the pluses and minuses his predecessor leaves, which includes benefits as well as burdens.

I will be the greatest jobs president that God has ever created. The tax relief will be concentrated on the working and middle class. I will be president for all Americans.

I'll be so presidential that you people will be screaming loosen up president. Loosen up.

One of the reasons I'm seriously thinking about running for president is that America is not a respected country anymore.

Everybody's saying I should run for president.

Hillary Clinton calls our people deplorable, a large group, and irredeemable. I will be a president for all of our people.

I'll be a president that will turn our inner cities around and will give strength to people and will give economics to people and will bring jobs back.