President Quotes

What's great about America is anybody can run for president. That is literally true.

I believe I am a work horse. I believe that that is what our country needs. We need a president who will roll up our sleeves collectively as a nation and tackle the problems that we confront.

When you're president, you can't vote present. You have to make a decision. Sometimes it's a split second decision. You don't have time to think about it. You've got to actually decide.

I have more understanding, more compassion. I am on a much more important quest for the truth than any of you. You just don't want me to be president.

As president, I will take that work, that bipartisan work, that finding common ground, because you have to be able to get along with people to get things done in Washington.

I look at somebody like my husband or President Obama. They are so natural. I mean, they are fluid, they got the moves, they can just go into a room and really capture it, they've got charisma.

Different presidents have different strengths, they bring different life experiences.

I wanna be a president for everyone in America. That's my goal, this what I will do, that's what I've done in my past.

It is time to pick a side.Either we stand with the gun lobby or we join the president and stand up to them.

I probably described more times than I can remember how stressful it was advising the President [Barack Obama] about going after Bin Laden.

I agree with the president [Barack Obama]. I've said myself, we will not send American combat troops back to either Syria or Iraq - that is off the table.

I think people need to remember what the situation was when President [Barack] Obama came into office.

I'm going to use the White House and every tool at my disposal as your president to make the case that patriotism is profitable.

I want to take some of the ideas that worked when my husband was president, and we ended up with 23 million new jobs and incomes went up for everybody.

When I was a senior, I ran for class president. And I lost. One of my opponents even told me I was "really stupid" if I thought a girl could be elected president.

I want to be the president for all Americans, regardless of your political beliefs, where you come from, what you look like, your religion.

I've stood up to Russia. I've taken on Putin and others, and I would do that as president.

I hope by the time I am president that we will have pushed ISIS out of Iraq.

I want to be the best president I can be for every American.

I'm proud to be a woman running for president.

Hillary Clinton is a very dishonest person, probably the most dishonest person ever to run for the office of president.

It's really hard to get to know me, or any candidate. And I would be asked questions like, well, why are you really running for president?

I think that the coalition that President [Barack] Obama put together to win twice is a coalition that I can put together and add to.

We need steady hands, not a president who says he's neutral on Monday, pro-Israel on Tuesday, and who knows what on Wednesday, because everything's negotiable.

Midterms are always hard. And the midterm in a two-term president's second term is especially hard.

You have to be a little bit crazy to run for president.

Donald Trump is reinforcing harmful stereotypes and offering a dog whistle to his most hateful supporters. It's a disturbing preview of what kind of president he'd be.

I will be as careful as I can in making the most significant decisions any president and commander-in-chief can make about sending our men and women into harm's way.

For 40 years, everyone running for president has released their tax returns. You can go and see nearly, I think, 39, 40 years of our tax returns, but everyone has done it.

If Donald Trump's main claim to be president of the United States is your business, then I think we should talk about that.

I prepared to be president. And I think that's a good thing.

I hope Donald Trump will be a successful president.

Senator [Bernie] Sanders is the only person who I think would characterize me, a woman running to be the first woman president, as exemplifying the establishment.

I'm thrilled the president [Barack Obama] has endorsed me. We started off as fierce competitors, and we've ended up as true friends and partners and worked together on so many important issues.

The president [Barack Obama] himself has said he thought part of his job was to remind the American people that being president and commander in chief is a serious responsibility.

I'm against Trans-Pacific Partnership now. I'll be against it after the election. I'll be against it when I'm president.

A president of the United States should not have a racist at his side - unacceptable.

The president and his right-wing Supreme Court think it is 'okay' to have the government take your house if they feel like putting a hotel where your house is.

I don't care what you label me as long as you call me president.

Barry Goldwater once said, "I'd rather be right than president." I can't tell you how much I disagree with that Barry Goldwater.

This country was the moral leader of the world until George Bush became president.

There are definitely some people who cheat, but how come we're only focusing on people who are on welfare who cheat, and not the bank presidents who cheat?

What I want to do more than anything as president of the United States is to restore the honor and dignity and respect that this country is owed around the world.

What I want to know is why in the world the Democratic party leadership is supporting the president's unilateral attack on Iraq?

Again and again, Americans have voted for a president to keep them out of a war, only to see the "peace" candidate elected who then brings the nation into war.

Even if you assume presidents were democratically elected they still have no right to keep secrets from the American people.

Nixon was no more a saint than he was a great president.

When I was president of the company, I said, 'Okay, I can do this - piece of cake.' Then when you are the CEO, the responsibilities multiply enormously because you worry about everything.

I respect the fact that Donald Trump always listens. It's how he was in business. It's how he is as president.

Most people who aspire to be president don't have a foreign policy andnational security background. The exception was certainly Hillary Clinton.