President Quotes

When you're running for president, I think you have an obligation to be healthy. I just don't think you can do the work if you're not healthy.

We need a great president.

If Hillary Clinton is president of the United States, nothing is going to happen. It's just going to be talk.

If I'm going to be president, I will try the best I can, and I'm a very good dealmaker, believe me.

I think [Hillary Clinton] would make a horrible president.

If I'm president, we're not going to have people dying on the streets. I don't call it a mandate, I just say it's common sense.

In the past, presidents had been consulted about those kinds of decisions by SGs, and I thought it was the right thing to do.

Shirley Chisholm is another one [political hero]. She was a dynamic speaker, and the first black woman to run for President.

When I saw the president [Barack Obama], I was a little disappointed that, you know, we were under constant attack. We never felt comfortable.

We cannot excuse the fact that he [Donald Trump] is running for president. He's a frontrunner.

I think President Bush tried to step up on Social Security even though the polls showed that was unpopular. He has not been successful and backed off, but I admire people who take on big problems.

They all start competing against Lincoln as the greatest president. And the [library] building becomes the symbol, the memorial to that dream.

We have to create jobs, put money into the taxpayer's pocket and Hillary Clinton has not shown that she is competent to be President of the United States.

Presidents don't have power. Their job is to draw attention away from it.

He didn't know why he had become president of the galaxy, except that it seemed a fun thing to be.

The Presidents job, is not to wield power himself, but to lead attention away from it.

It is a long revisionist road up from the bottom for George W. Bush. He is ranked toward the bottom rung of presidents.

Presidents have to be very organized to govern successfully, and solo artists rarely succeed.

Many voted in 2008 with the desire to see racism and racists humiliated by having a qualified black man elected president.

I was honored to spend time with the President on an issue that is clearly important to him. I was also impressed by his wide receiver skills.

Every election, Mickey Mouse looks better and better as President.

The president cannot escape from his office.

There is one thing about being President -- nobody can tell you when to sit down.

A women could never be President. A condidate must be over 35, and where are you going to find a woman who will admit she's over 35?

While he was president, it was popular to be a Nixon hater.

I think Franklin Roosevelt was a lousy president. What he did- which is to impose this great nanny state on America- was a great mistake.

George W. Bush is not only a great president; he was a great candidate.

I intend to vote for President George W. Bush in the next election, because in my view, he is best able to wage the war against international terrorism.

I became a Republican in the summer of 1972. I was involved in running President Nixon's re-election campaign in California and became part of his administration at the start of his second term.

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the President of Iran ... in one shot on his website he appears to be dressed only in flowers. Oh - here's the page, you'll see what I mean.

Go little book, thy self present, As child whose parent is unkent: To him that is the president Of noblesse and of chivalry, And if that Envy bark at thee, As sure it will, for succour flee.

Presidents should not be exempted from the same standards of reason and evidence and justification that any other citizen or civil movement should be held to.

Ronald Reagan's biographer wrote of the former president's final days: "for all the intimate familiarity of that face and body, I did not feel his presence beside me-only his absence."

When the President of Iran talks about removing Israel from the face of the Earth and is building nuclear bombs with a range of 3000km, you have to be worried.

If you look at where presidents come from, they're former governors or senators.

For instance, it is certain that women do not want a woman for President. Nor would they have the slightest confidence in her ability to fulfill the functions of that office.

I have often thought that less is expected of the president of a great corporation than of an American wife.

I've worked with five Presidents in America, all of them I ask the same question always: Why didn't the American allies bomb the railways going to Auschwitz?

American presidents always avoid shaking hands with brutal dictators, except when it's advantageous to do so.

I hope Hillary Clinton runs for president.

There would be nothing to get me to run for president. I don't even understand how anyone would want that job at all. Although I would be able to play golf which I don't seem to have time now.

It is with tremendous excitement and pride that EMILY's List endorses Senator Hillary Clinton for president.

President Reagan is now at rest. We mourn his passing, but we are grateful for the gifts he gave us: a safer world, strong economic base, and a renewed belief in America's greatness.

I've been very fortunate, because I've cooked for a lot of actors and actresses and musicians. I've cooked for presidents and I've been to the White House.

I'm not impressed with presidents. I have met a few, but I'm not impressed with them.

My morals went when the president got oral.

I don't know anything about American history or presidents. I don't know what tailgating is! I've never been to an Olive Garden!

I often speak with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. When I speak with the Turkish president, I defend European positions. That is how we European partners must do things.

The President would usually talk to me about matters relating to the immigration problem.

I've been invited to speak at about 20 colleges. There's always this moment when I'm having dinner with the college president: 'Ernie, where'd you go to school?'