President Quotes

All special assistants to the president are typically political appointees of the first year of the new president.

I don't think Bush was legitimately elected President.

A presidential debate is a job interview. And voters look for certain traits in people applying to be president.

In times of tumult, voters are likely to forgive a president, if not reward him, for compromises made in service of solutions.

Most Tea Party activists consider Obama a big-spending liberal. Some even question his eligibility to be president.

Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln and Roosevelt faced adversities that, in their times, seemed impregnable. Great presidents overcome great odds.

In the coming year, I believe we can make sure America lives up to its legacy as a land of opportunity if the President is willing to back up his rhetoric with substance.

Once again, President Clinton is using American troops to deflect attention from his record of lies, distortions, obstructions of justice and abuse of power.

While President Obama was starting and expanding unconstitutiona l wars overseas, Bradley Manning, whose actions have caused exactly zero deaths, was shining light on the truth behind these wars.

With a host of proposals on the table and a President examining new ideas for health reform, we have an obligation to give real reform our best shot.

For the eight years I was president I never let my dream of a nuclear-free world fade from my mind.

How could an actor become president?

I’m not a politician. I think that uniquely qualifies me to become president of the U.S.

I think the actions of the president are, in my opinion, the most vile and hateful words ever spoken by a sitting president. I am stunned and I'm horrified.

I've done a whole lot of things. I've had the pleasure of introducing two presidents, several senators and congressmen.

Being president of too many well-meaning organizations put my father into an early grave. The lesson in this was not lost on me.

There's no doubt that cable news hosts can say things that the president of the United States shouldn't say, and people can be harsh at you. That doesn't mean you benefit by being harsh back.

My advice would be the same advice that I gave President [George W.] Bush when he won in '04, and, kind of, wasn't followed. I think you go with the things you know you can pass.

When President-elect [Donald] Trump wants to take on these issue, when his goal is to increase the economic security of middle class families, then count me in.

The Constitution of the United States doesn't change the powers of the president based on the number by which you get elected.

Hillary Clinton skated because she's running for president. She clearly violated the law.

You can be a patriotic American and be a critic, but then you're not expressing that kind of love that we're used to from a president.

And it's a little - very humbling to think that running for president of the United States is - for a kid from Brooklyn, it's quite a step.

I'm looking for a president that'll be like a Ronald Reagan to a Jimmy Carter.

You can't sue a president, a former president. They're indemnified.

If I wanted to be president, and if I were ever serious about it, the biggest thing I would have going for me is that I'm a conservative.

We've arrived at a point where the President of the United States is going to lead a war on traditional marriage.

The president of the United States is a pretty important position, and it's the ideas and policies that matter to me, not the color of their skin.

Our presidency is a cut above, we all want the president to be the absolutely finest person and best person that we could elect, but even at that, presidents are not supposed to be unapproachable.

I don't think we live in a place where we don't want people to be able to say when they disagree with the president or incoming administration.

We have the most liberal, the most leftist candidate who has ever run for president in my lifetime; he's a sitting duck. This guy's policies are aimed at destroying the age of American greatness.

Do you realize, when Mandela was inaugurated president, he invited as his special guests the white jailers from his Robben Island prison? He literally did forgive everybody.

Great presidents don't just fight good fights - they win them.

Every time we have a mass murder we're gonna go to the memorial or we're gonna grade the president's performance at the memorial to determine whether or not we're being effective in dealing with it?

Hillary [Clinton] doesn't have a fascinating story to get behind. She doesn't fascinating story to tell. The only thing about Hillary is, you know, "first female president."

The whole idea of the first female president is not nearly as momentous or exciting as the first African-American.

George W. Bush will not offer one word of criticism for any president. Not Clinton. Not Obama.

The idea that any president represents the world, by definition the United States must be diminished for that to happen.

We've got the prime minister of Egypt Sherif Ismail, the president of Egypt Ibrahim Mahlab saying that Donald Trump is uniquely equipped to do great things.

The pope can go ahead and claim that Trump is not a Christian, but you can't go there when we talking about the president of the United States.

I'm just warning you here: Don't anybody ask about the president's religion! Don't even get close to going there. Don't do it. That is a forbidden area. You cannot even ask about it.

Hillary Clinton was personally presiding over the dissolution of moral authority - particularly applied to presidents - because she looked the other way, because she tolerated it.

We keep hearing how “qualified” Hillary Clinton is to be president. I think it’s kind of like if somebody has to deny they’re a prostitute, then there must be some doubt about it.

[Barack Obama] still fighting these mysterious, powerful forces trying to stop him, yet he's the president.

[Donald] Trump has more of a mandate than any president since Ronald Reagan.

So 38% think that Donald Trump's not qualified to be president. How many people thought that about Bill Clinton? Bill Clinton actually did the kind of things Trump is talking about.

Tip O'Neill, even after Ronald Reagan became president, called him "an amiable dunce," which is what the Democrats always do.

It's not his job, the president's, to pick winners and losers, nor to pass judgment on anybody.

The president and others say that if we leave, it will just be chaos in Iraq. Well, right now when you come to Iraq, you can't even drive from the airport to the Green Zone.

Donald Trump's not politically correct. Although you are running for president, you should be politically correct. But there is also the expression of an artist.