President Quotes

[My father] taught me (at least he showed me) a dignified way to be a former president is that once you're off the stage, you're off the stage.

I'm a content person and I'm content knowing that I gave it my all when I was president.

I think I'm the only president other than John Kennedy who had both parents alive during the presidency.

I really think it's important for presidents to exit the stage gracefully.

I'm the only president who really put it out in the State of the Union and was very specific about how I felt we ought to do it.

I don't think you can run for president or be president unless you're a busy person.

I decided what I wanted to do, not to make me look good, but to make me feel comfortable. Other presidents do it other ways.

As the president, you're pretty much in a bubble. And golf is a good way to get out of the bubble.

The presidency is a serious job that requires sound judgment and good ideas, and there's no doubt in my mind that Jeb Bush has the experience and the character to be a great president.

A president must make decisions based upon principle and stand by the principles by which he makes decisions in order to achieve peace.

I think whoever is the president [he] must guard your liberties, must not erode your rights in America.

I am the elected president of Liberia, not Ellen Sirleaf. They stole my victory, and I am here to say loud and clear that I am the winner of the elections.

The English language is not always the President's friend.

Remember Henry Adam's jest that the succession of presidents from Washington to Grant disproved the theory of evolution?

Most presidents come to Washington bright as freshly minted dimes and leave much diminished.

The education of this president [Obama] is a protracted and often amusing process . . . as he continues to alight upon the obvious with a sense of profound and original discovery.

I will be a president of all Bulgarians, irrespective of their ethnicity, religion or political affiliations.

It's discouraging how hard it is for a President to slice away large chunks of a $305 billion budget.

As President, I am determined to offer leadership to overcome our current economic problems. My goal is for jobs for all who want to work and economic opportunity for all who want to achieve.

Mr. President, putting it bluntly, wouldn't we just be continuing a bloodbath that already exists in Cambodia if we voted the 222 million in aid?

Tonight, the daughter of an immigrant from Italy has been chosen to run for vice president in the new land my father came to love.

You don't deliberately submit people you love to something like that. I don't think I'd run again for vice-president. Next time I'd run for president.

Being a president is being a CEO, essentially.

As far as my relationship with President Putin is concerned, it's fine.

Not a chance. I don't know what Sarah (Palen)'s doing, (but) I have no desire to be president of the United States, zero desire. I don't think that I would be electable.

Can you let your son's body become the same temperature as your son's head before you turn this into a political campaign against the president? Could you do that?

I think the president is a racist.

I would like a practical president, but I would like to be able to have his practicality based on principles, and not just who - I mean the room with.

The president should not be able to make me or you ever worried about what's going to happen in our personal life.

We can't afford any president to fail.

I can think of no better reason to vote against Obama than the prospect of an administration where any criticism of the President is treated as racism.

I have a European Fanclub that's based in Holland, and I had to have that President of the Fanclub to get me a number of recordings that I hadn't had the foresight to collect myself.

A president can be as strong as she wants to be.

As President Nixon says, presidents can do almost anything, and President Nixon has done many things that nobody would have thought of doing.

Being president of a major public university is the most political nonpolitical office around.

I'd still like to be the President, of course, and I think the best way to do that would be to raise an army and seize the Capital. This strikes me as true democracy.

Nixon was a Southern Rim President, and so antipathetic to the old guard.

I don't think you can be a credible, modern candidate for president without making the environment a major part of your platform.

That's the job of the National Security Council is to try to be a disciplined clearinghouse, gathering the views from across multiple agencies, teeing up decisions that make sense for the president.

There are a number of people who won't be president in 2009, and Mark Warner is one of them.

[It's] Rare for a first lady to be running for president.

Did I say that the President's entire job is image management? Of course not.

He slept more than any other president, whether by day or by night. Nero fiddled, but Coolidge only snored.

The office of president requires the constitution of an athlete, the patience of a mother, the endurance of an early Christian.

I don't think that (U.S. President) George Bush...is a man of honor.

There was not a word of apology, not a word of explanation to the American people. The president's going to have to get a touch of reality.

The Iraq war can only be won diplomatically, politically and economically, and the president needs to come to that realization.

It sure is hell to be president.

The last president we had was the smartest guy anyone could remember and he did the dumbest thing anyone has ever seen in the White House so go figure.

I can't conceive of caring more about my president than my own partner.