President Quotes

Wow. Losing 95 percent of your audience in just five years. That basically makes Obama the NBC of presidents.

So a truthful assessment of how America is doing in the war on terror as a result of President Bush's war on Iraq is that we have been set back by decades.

This has always been the way of presidential politics. The president rises above the fray while his surrogates go on the attack. They throw the spears and fling the mud; he sits upon the throne.

Newt Gingrich never received more than 100,000 votes in his life. He'll never be president.

America may be in a dour condition, but it is not going to elect a dour president.

Presidents have to learn how to adapt. Every president comes into the job, it's different than they expect, they must adapt.

The country is split. There are - more people voting for Hillary Clinton than Donald Trump, but he's the president.

The principal role of the President of the United States is the security of the country and participating in trying to stabilize the world.

Playing President Clinton (in Primary Colors) was risky and challenging. Some people thought Saturday Night Fever was risky, because no one had danced in movies for years.

When I was young, no one wanted to be one; now even the President of the United States would call himself an outsider. So now I'm for insiders.

For President Donald Trump, questions about transparency start with his taxes, and why he's breaking with tradition and not releasing his returns.

Donald Trump is the first president in more than 40 years not to make his tax returns public. The president says only reporters care about the issue.

Congress in the immigration law gives the president the power to restrict or suspend the entry of people he may deem appropriate.

The president appoints the judges. Your lives and your children's lives can change by all of these appellate court judges who will be appointed who will reinterpret laws, and things can change.

The good news is that the president gets another chance. The bad news is that he'll be two weeks older.

I think Ronald Reagan was the best President of my lifetime.

Today I'm a candidate for the office of president of the United States of America. My kids can't believe I just said that.

I don't think you need to run down someone's reputation in order to run for the office of president.

Indeed, only one Supreme Court justice in history, one Horace Lurton, nominated by President [John] Taft, had more federal appeals court experience [than Samuel Alito].

Here is a pretty good rule of thumb for Democratic Presidents: if it didn't work for Franklin D. Roosevelt, who won four terms and a World War, it probably won't work for you either.

The President says, "We are in the fight for a way of life. This is the greatest battle of our generation, and of the generations to come."

Bush's popularity is at 40% in South America? He could be their president!

In what is perhaps the strangest turn in the President's efforts to rally support, he agreed that Iraq is just like Vietnam, but in a good way.

Democrats do have a historic race going. Hillary Clinton vs. Barack Obama. Normally, when you see a black man or a woman president an asteroid is about to hit the Statue of Liberty.

I think as - all in all, it's better to have a cool president than a not cool president.

And on Thursday, President Obama seized the opportunity of the National Prayer Breakfast to forthrightly criticize the 'terrible deeds' . . . committed 'in the name of Christ.'.

A lot of the things that Trump needs to do to be a popular president requires annoying his biggest fans.

The president hasn't come after me yet, but we've had other people come after me!

I think President [Barack] Obama is exactly right, we need to combat [gun shoots] because this really can become the new normal, but that's really what's been happening.

The only book by a modern president that bears serious comparison with Obama's 'Dreams From My Father' is Jimmy Carter's short campaign autobiography, 'Why Not the Best?,' published in 1975.

No president has come near to rivaling Lincoln as a writer.

Indeed, one modern President abjured God altogether, ending speeches with a chaste 'Thank you very much.' This was Jimmy Carter, the most genuinely devout President of the postwar period.

American friends of Israel as well as those who understand the grave threat that Iran poses to U.S. interests and security need to face the fact that this president has abandoned them.

My dad was president of the Finlandia Foundation for a number of years and there was a period of time when he tried to get me in. I'm glad I finally got in.

Donald Trump says, we talked about the wall, but we didn't talk about who was going to pay for it, not in this meeting. President Pena Nieto doesn't say or do anything.

There is a lot of people just shaking their heads and wondering, what was really behind this meeting [of Donald Trump and Enrique Pena] as far as from the president of Mexico.

Would you phone the president of Ghana?

I will be a president in a skirt, but I will wear the pants.

I want to be president because I have the sensitivity, as a woman, to listen. I'm a different candidate... different because I don't belong to powerful, privileged groups, because I'm honest.

The President and first lady did hold a private party at the White House over the weekend, but given the private nature of that event, I don't have a lot of details to discuss from here.

The walk-in privilege, to walk into the Oval Office and have a conversation with the president, is not something that everybody gets.

I’m never wrong? Who besides Republican presidents and evil masterminds can say that with a straight face?

This voting thing is actually beautiful. Not just necessary - it's a wonderful thing and it makes you powerful. And we've forgotten that in the most negative [president's] campaign in history.

One of the reasons that Donald Trump cannot properly respond to what was an obvious proper response from an America president is the people in his government.

In the last 100 years only Presidents George H.W. Bush, Jimmy Carter and Gerald Ford lost their bids for reelection. President Lyndon Johnson did not run for a second term.

As President Obama is inaugurated for a second time, the biggest political surprise is that gun control is now key to his political legacy.

There is absolutely zero chance that ObamaCare will be repealed while Democrats control the Senate and President Obama is in the White House.

There's no logic in how Donald Trump thinks. I don't want someone who's the president who says 3 to 5 million people voted illegally when there's zero proof. It's a crazy person.

The president deserves someone who can block for his policies.

Every president feels that he has gotten unfair, dishonest coverage from the news media.