President Quotes

I believe that voices like Ross Perot, Pat Buchanan, Ralph Nader should be heard. They don't have to be president. Give 'em a chance.

Presidents often disappoint, but first ladies rarely do.

John F. Kennedy brought style and charisma to the White House and a first family that captivated the country: a handsome, witty president, an elegant first lady, and two adorable young children.

It's a welcome development that the president is paying attention to the war crimes that are being committed by the Assad regime and by their supporters in Iran and in Russia.

I think that in terms of the American interests, I would feel more safe with a President Trump representing those interests to the world.

You want the president to be uninfluenced by any factors other than his advisers and the best interests of the United States. I think, on that category, Donald Trump easily beats Hillary Clinton.

If you look back at past administrations, they're probably a little bit behind where former President George W. Bush was.

Adam Schiff, who is of course the ranking member on the House Select Committee said earlier today I'd be worried about an impulsive president with an impulsive national security adviser.

President [Barack] Obama, it took him a number of days to do [appointments to Administration] and it took former President Bill Clinton even longer.

Only nut cases want to be president. This was true even in high school. Only clearly disturbed people ran for class president.

The job of being president, understanding the particular policies that America has gotten itself into over the past 400 years.

I didn't want to be president; I didn't want to be governor; I didn't want to be a congress person. I just wanted to be mayor of the city of Detroit. I lived there my entire life.

On a friendship with former president George W. Bush: He's a personal friend, but we've all got the right not to agree with our friends.

I think JR would make a better President than the one we have now.

It's not easy to have the job of president. It's not easy to run for it. And it's not a job for the feint of heart.

There are a lot of women that I think are very powerful and would be great presidents.

In 2004, I was the new President of Bravo. I had never run a commercial cable network before…we needed a hit.

Of course the president Donald Trump said he wants to get to the truth. He always says that. But I think we all know that those words do not speak as loudly as his actions.

And I want you to know that I have had the greatest support from President Bateman. I could coach as long as I want to and never felt any pressure to reach a decision.

The popular choice is not elected as president.

The popular choice, by more than 2 million votes, is a completely qualified candidate for president.

169 House Democrats signed a letter to the President-elect [Donald Trump] urging him to "rescind this appointment [of Steve Bannon ] immediately."

The Daily Beast reports today that if Steve Bannon is denied a security clearance, the President could simply overrule that denial and order that security clearance.

Jeff Sessions wished he wasn't the attorney general. The president Donald Trump has the most incompetent cabinet in history, and he's unhappy with only one of them. Only Jeff Sessions.

That seems to be a woman who is genuinely depressed that this is the political dialogue she [Hillary Clinton] is been thrown into in the 21st century in running for president of the United States.

Trying to turn the Congress the President on the Iran deal, - it's one thing to do that - it's a giant moment in Israeli politics to decide to do that.

I'm just learning that according to a source familiar with the transition process, President-elect Donald Trump intends to select Lieutenant General Michael Flynn as his national security adviser.

Someone who traffics in much more than what Jeff Sessions said back then will be with the president every day in the White House as his senior strategist.

We still have a long way to go but if we work together and we work hard, you'll see black people in positions you never thought we'd be in. I thought I would never see a black President.

President Lech Kaczynski is not at all active in Poland and his image abroad leaves a lot to be desired.

At the end of the day, my hat goes off to anybody trying to run for president, or trying to be president, because you're never going to please everybody, it's not possible.

I've played golf with three U.S presidents.

Are things getting better with each generation? Yes. It's quite interesting to be living in these times, for me to witness an African-American being elected president. It's quite extraordinary.

I think it's extremely important that the president Donald Trump himself indicate that he too wants to discover the full truth behind what the Russians did to elections 2016.

I think soon after I became director of the CIA - President Obama pulled me into the Oval Office and said: 'Look, I just want you to know that your top priority is to go after Osama bin Laden.'

When the president of the United States flicks the switch to light up the Christmas tree on the White House lawn, that house ceases to be an American symbol; it becomes a Christian symbol.

This is what I've been waiting for my whole life. A President who's not afraid to tell the truth about being a lying a**hole.

If some Western politician claims he is in a position to use the normal Western methods to feed and clothe 1.2 billion Chinese, we would be happily prepared to elect him president of China.

When I finished graduate school, the first George Bush was president, and I really wanted to get out of the country. We'd just gone through the first Gulf War.

From George Washington to George W. Bush, presidents have invoked God's name in the performance of their official duties.

The next president of the United States needs to figure one thing out quickly - how to be commander in chief. And I think I could do that.

Marco Rubio, I think, will be president some day. Whether 2016 is his time, time will tell. He embraced immigration reform. He seems to have backed off. I'll let him explain why.

I think the best thing, if you can't get an air-tight deal with every "I" dotted and every "t" crossed is let the next president have a chance to deal with the Iranians.

For an American president to be aiding America's enemy in developing nuclear weapons technology is unprecedented, absolutely.

In 1966 I became president of the British Computer Society.

The president's dead, no one can find his head, its been missing for two weeks. But no one seemed to notice it.

I wanted all my visits to be official. When I sent the pass back with a note, I had no idea it would antagonize the president. I found out years later that it did.

Slowly but without question - and Presidents' Day is only one example - Americans are forgetting and ignoring the men and events that have made this nation great.

The feminist women's organization NOW has endorsed Carol Moseley-Braun for president. Once again NOW has shown it is so far behind the times it should change its name to THEN.

The last thing I wanted to do was to be a wartime President.