President Quotes

Baseball is the president tossing out the first ball of the season. And a scrubby schoolboy playing catch with his dad on a Mississippi farm.

I'd like President Bush to get a gun in his hands. I'll go with him. I can't think of anything better than to die in places just beginning their lives.

I trust that the president will try, just give it one more shot, some revolutionary way of not doing this, of bringing all those kids back home safely.

"What are you going to do?" "Can't say - run for president, write -" "Greenwich Village?" "Good heavens, no - I said write - not drink."

Thankfully, President Obama has stood firmly behind women's health care issues by supporting coverage for contraception and reaffirming commitment to organizations like Planned Parenthood.

No one's supposed to be the president. This is not England. And it's not just the Bush family, all families designate each child as having some particular trait.

I gave myself an objective, to be the second president from Correze and finally to be the successor to Francois Mitterrand.

I am the president of the youth of France.

Mitterrand had a sense for symbols, and he was the first Socialist president since 1958. He wanted to show that there is historical continuity, a connection with the great figures of French history.

If I become president, France will not continue with the same policies as under Nicolas Sarkozy - both in domestic policy and in foreign and European policy.

My obligation, if I become president, is to give another direction to Europe than the one that is being forced upon us today.

I had hoped to hear the President tonight tell the Congress and the American people exactly how he plans to tackle some of the important issues facing this country, unfortunately I did not.

I voted for Stevenson as opposed to Eisenhower because I thought he would make a good president, but against my conscience because I thought that he was too good for the job.

I just want to do good work. That's all I want to do. I don't have big aspirations like being the President of the United States, I just want to do good work. That's all.

I don't expect that Albert Gore is going to become president, and I certainly hope we never see Tipper Gore in the White House. Can you imagine Tipper saying, "Just say no"?

I am much interested and deeply impressed by what he has accomplished and by his evidenced honest purpose of restoring Italy and seeking to prevent general European trouble.

The average vice-president is a form of executive fungus that attaches itself to a desk. On a boat this growth would be called a barnacle.

There were around 1,000 stores when I was made president.

America needs a president who understands the nature of the world we live in.

Being a POW certainly doesn't qualify anyone to be president.

I'm not particularly interested in running for president.

The Air Force is pulling nine cargo aircraft from military operations to support President Obama's stepped-up visits to campaign events. Good, now he can carry his entire ego with him on the trail.

If President Bush does a lousy job, then he'll lose power. If the guy at McDonalds who's selling burgers does a great job, then he'll be much more powerful than President Bush.

If she were a president, she'd be Baberham Lincoln.

In England they need a king, in Spain they need a king, in France there is no more king. But they consider the president as if he was a king.

I was lucky enough to be in some movies where I had powerful characters or I got to be the president on TV for a little while. Very short administration.

I think Hillary Clinton will make a fine president, and (most important) I am comfortable with her making gigantic, momentous decisions.

Reagan, people claimed, was too old to run for president and to be elected. But he proved himself such a vigorous campaigner in the primary system that he overcame those beliefs.

When Uganda got debt relief in 1999, the first item President Museveni bought was a presidential jacket for himself.

I was President of the Queensland Young Liberals in 1981.

I said bluntly that if the president were to follow Mr. Clifford's advice and if in the elections I were to vote, I would vote against the president.

The kind of president we need has little to do with ideology and more to do with a willingness to wield power to moral ends.

Even if you only counted the votes that actually made it through the hoops in order to be cast, the president was really Al Gore.

Now that I am no longer President, I find I can no longer win every game of golf I play.

I, George Bush, President of the United States of America, do hereby proclaim the decade beginning January 1, 1990, as the Decade of the Brain.

Study hard; and you might grow up to be President. But let's face it: Even then, you'll never make as much money as your dog.

There is no greater advocate of perestroika than the president of the United States.

The [President's] Nomination, of Course, brings the Subject fully under the Consideration of the Senate; who have then a Right to decide upon its Propriety or Impropriety.

Securing freedom has been a singular commitment of American presidents and patriots in and out of government for generations. But its perpetual continuation is not guaranteed.

No man should be allowed to be the President who does not understand hogs, or hasn't been around a manure pile.

You don't have to be foreign policy expert to succeed as president, but you have to have ice water for blood.

If Hillary Clinton becomes president, how is she going to be able to get the country behind her when she seems like a political figure from another era?

President Donald Trump has said, he would be honored to meet Kim Jong-un under the right circumstances. What are those circumstances?

Nobody here is questioning the victory. I want to know President-elect [Donald] Trump doesn't believe the conclusions of 17 intelligence agencies.

The shock of the new after the biggest upset in American political history, this unforgettable, once unimaginable image Donald Trump side by side with President Obama in the Oval Office.

How will a President Trump bind those wounds rubbed so raw by this campaign?

[ Donald Trump] deference to the president [Barack Obama] whose legitimacy he questioned.

Protected by a no-fly zone, surrounded by protesters, Trump Tower is buzzing with intensity. The president-elect's family, loyalist advisers and wannabes all jockeying for position.

The president is exempt from the conflict of interest rules that all other administrations must - administration officials must abide by.

We have also seen this spate of incidents, racially-charged incidents, across the country right now. What should President-Elect [Donald] Trump do to get that under control?