President Quotes

I have worked with Presidents since Eisenhower. We serve together.

If all of you had voted the other way - there's about 5500 of you here tonight - I would not be the President of the United States.

Those [presidents] who were strongest intellectually were also strongest spiritually.

When things don't go well they like to blame presidents; and that's something that presidents are paid for.

Every president has taken comfort and courage when told...that the Lord "will be with thee. He will not fail thee nor forsake thee. Fear not-neither be thou dismayed."

While they came from a variety of religious backgrounds and held a wide variety of religious beliefs, each of our presidents in his own way has placed a special trust in God.

The function and responsibility of the President is to set before the American people the unfinished business, the things we must do if we are going to succeed as a nation.

We don't need a president who just says, "Gentlemen, start your engines." We need a president who says, America, let's start our economy and put people back to work.

The military's job is to win the war. A president's job is to win the peace.

I'm going to be a president who believes in science.

Those who doubted whether Iraq or the world would be better off without Saddam Hussein, and those who believe today that we are not safer with his capture, don't have the judgment to be President.

As President, I will not be the last to know what is going on in my command.

George Bush's vision does not live up to the America I enlisted in the Navy to defend, the America I have fought for in the Senate, and the America that I hope to lead as president.

This President has made, I regret to say, a colossal error of judgment. And judgment is what we look for in the president of the President of the United States of America.

I'm glad the President finally found an economic development program. I'm just sad that it's only in Baghdad.

I defended this country as a young man, and I will defend it as president.

Middle class Americans don't ask for special favors, they just want basic fairness, and a President who fights for that ideal.

There is no bigger judgment for a president of the United States than how you take a nation to war.

People who run for president seriously and people who become president enter a bizarre secret society in which they have had an experience that none of us will ever have.

My candidacy is a compelling argument for my candidacy. I want to be President.

To want to become the President is, I think, such a bizarre ambition that it is automatically deranging.

I certainly think Obama is the most hopeful president I've seen in the country since John Kennedy.

Patriotism is not necessarily defined as blind devotion to a president's particular agenda - and that to dispute a presidential policy is not necessarily anti-American.

The worst enemy of good government is not our ignorant foreign voter, but our educated domestic railroad president, our prominent business man, our leading lawyer.

You watch people run for president, and a large part of what they say, they don't ever follow through on. But I don't think you can afford to wait on this [trade agreements].

The role of money in politics is terrible, particularly when you're running for president. You get a handful of billionaires who can basically buy the White House.

American university presidents are a nervous breed; I have never thought well of them as a class.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt and J.F Kennedy were Presidents in very different times.

We put a President up there, and then we set fire to him because he's not solving all our problems.

I'm gonna say that I have followed every presidential campaign since the campaign of President [John F.] Kennedy in 1960.

I think, in fact, I think President [Barack] Obama could step up.

John Lewis stood up and said in an interview that Donald Trump was not a legitimate president. It's insanity.

I can tell just from working closely for the last year an half with president-elect [Donald Trump] and even over the course of the last six weeks, he has no problem with differing opinions in a room.

Donald Trump has made it clear that certainly over the last few years that President [Barack] Obama was born in Hawaii.

President-elect [Donald] Trump won 30 of 50 states, more counties since Ronald Reagan.

Whatever efforts for peace President Gorbachev had in mind, they were pretty substantially undercut very swiftly by Saddam Hussein.

Sen. Obama is a decent person and a person you don't have to be scared of as president of the United States.

We were pleased to hear the President state his firm commitment that he will do whatever is necessary to accomplish this important goal.

It seems to me that President Carter has earned his place as if not the worst president in history, the worst president of the 20th Century.

I am sure that Senator Clinton would make a good President. I have no doubt that Senator Clinton would make a good President.

Responsibility always stops at the president's desk.

Now that we have the line-item veto there is no excuse for Congress to put pork in and no reason for the president not to line-item veto it out.

[I find it] impossible [to imagine] that a nation which is grounded in Judaeo-Christian principles would somehow select someone [for President] who would repudiate those principles.

The question is not whether you would like to be president or not. The question is: Do you think you can win and do you want to run? And none of those are clear to me.

It is because I owe America more than she has ever owed me that I am a candidate for president to the United States.

I have said for a long time that I thought the president would be best served if the attorney general resigned so I think it's the right thing to do.

Arizona may be the only state in America where mothers don't tell their children that someday, they can grow up and be president of the United States.

Inexperience because of (President Barack) Obama's inexperience.Look that would be one of the challenges.

I guarantee you, as president of the United States, I know how to heal the wounds of war, I know how to deal with our adversaries, and I know how to deal with our friends.

Dear Mr. President, can I ask you a question, when the bombs fall down will they hurt everyone in my family?