President Quotes

The President is bound to stop at the limits prescribed by our Constitution and law to the authorities in his hands, [and this] would apply in an occasion of peace as well as war.

Tobacco is a culture productive of infinite wretchedness.

[The People] are the ultimate, guardians of their own liberty.

"President Monson, I may never see the Prophet. I may never hear the Prophet. But President, far better, now that I am a member of this Church, I can obey the Prophet."

I do think the president's best role is usually as the sort of initiator.

If you think of big, legislative accomplishments, most of them kind of get initiated with the president putting something out there and Congress working on it.

When a guy running for president will not support the troops, not support veterans, not support teachers, that's really important.

I trust Hillary Clinton as president and commander in chief, but the thought of Donald Trump as commander in chief scares me to death.

Do you want a you're hired president in Hillary Clinton or a you're fired president in Donald Trump? I don't think that's such a hard choice.

Donald Trump must give the American public his tax returns to show that he's qualified to be president and he's breaking his promise.

A president should take action to defend the United States against eminent threat. You have to. The president has to do that.

Donald Trump started this campaign in 2014 he said if I run for president I'll absolutely release my taxes.

This is one where you can just kind of go to the tape on it. But Governor [Mike] Pence said inarguably Vladimir Putin is a better leader than President [Barack] Obama.

The president doesn't get a line-item veto, so all the budgetary approps stuff is with Congress.

I can be president of the United States, and if I can do that, I can do anything.

It's important to use executive orders. Every president since Washington has.

The American public will be clear on who's most fit to be president. And that's Hillary Clinton.

I give the president credit for at least one thing. He's proven that someone can deserve a Nobel prize less than Al Gore.

I just find Bobby Kennedy's short campaign for president so inspiring because his rhetoric identified what America can be like if we care about each other.

I am pleased that the President has signed an Executive Order this week requiring federal agencies to disclose information about prices and quality of healthcare services.

To Ronald Wilson Regan, The Fortieth President of The United States: The Man Who Won The War.

We will also never bring up the permanent tax cut the president is advocating.

You can support the troops but not the president.

Does Obama really want his legacy to be, ‘The president who was an even bigger fool than Neville Chamberlain’?

A monkey was the President, though maybe not the first. And there was peace and harmony throughout the universe.

At President Obama's direction, the U.S Department of Agriculture is working hard to unleash the power of America's innovators and entrepreneurs to build a green energy economy.

President Obama's fight for rural America is personal. He was raised by a single mom and grandparents from Kansas. He hails from a farming state, Illinois.

I never actually smoked with any of the presidents.

I don't want to commit myself in advocating a definite republican constitution which will get bogged down with the question of who would elect the President and when.

The fact is that we do pay attention. I think that it's unfortunately the case, whether you're a man or woman and you're running for president you need to look as good as you can look.

I am relatively sure, from conversations that I had with former president Bill Clinton, that George Bush seldom called upon him for advice.

All modern U.S. presidents are perforce politicians, prisoners of their past pronouncements, their party, their constituency, and their colleagues.

I think the important thing is for the president to show action. The people in America want to know that we're listening to them and their concerns.

I want the President to look across the country and find the best man woman or minority that he can find

I was very disappointed, very disappointed when President [George W.] Bush proclaimed Kwanzaa as a national holiday. Prior to that, Bill Clinton did the same thing.

I sometimes call Donald Trump the placebo president. He will talk a big game, but for domestic policy I think change remarkably little.

I personally think President [Hosni] Mubarak, who's done a lot for Egypt, should acknowledge that his time has come and step down right away.

President Murabak has been a U.S. ally for decades. He was a guarantor of some degree of peace in the Middle East and has kept a good relationship with the Western world.

Barack Obama is president of a superpower and I'm a citizen of a small state.

If you want to see your plays performed the way you wrote them, become President.

Given the daunting challenges that we face, it's important that president elect Obama is prepared to really take power and begin to rule day one.

The whole issue of healthcare is very complicated. There have been seven Presidents who've tried to get healthcare reform passed.

The job of president is to motivate, to inspire, to be side by side with people making sure that they develop all their capacities and that I remove all the obstacles they have to grow by themselves.

All other things being equal, a bald man cannot be elected President of the United States.

I don't think you get to be pope without making some enemies, like you do when you're president.

I don't care at all. I don't know the difference from one president to the next.

Both candidates for president talk about balancing the budget ten years from now. Even if they win, they won't be in office then.

Many people wants to be the president...they have ambition. Just ambition is not enough.

The last time I was in Japan as President of Russia was 11 years ago, if memory serves. I later visited in my capacity as Prime Minister.

There are also fundamental issues related to what the current leader, President [Barack] Obama, said. I am referring to his idea about American exceptionalism. I am skeptical about this idea.