President Quotes

As for the President-elect [Donald Trump], he has his own views on things, and this is also fairly natural.

As for meetings, I think the President-elect [Donald Trump] should be given an opportunity to first form his administration and assume office. Meetings will come next.

I do not think I am entitled to assess the President of the United States. This is up to the American people.

In accordance with the Constitution of the Russian Federation, the issues of foreign policy and defense are fully in the hands of the president.

I like thieves. Some of my best friends are thieves. Why, just last week we had the president of the bank over for dinner.

If you wants to get elected president, you'se got to think up some memoraboble homily so's school kids can be pestered into memorizin' it, even if they don't know what it means.

President tends to feel that he cannot go beyond what the public will support him in doing. So he tries not to decide what is the best course so much as to decide what the people will support.

Probably the most useful thing I can do as secretary of state is to assist the president in adapting and renewing the transnational institutions that were created after World War II.

One hundred percent of the time, no plea bargain, no bail, you're going to the penitentiary - that will change the atmosphere in this culture of violence the president talks about.

The elections have a different platform, the town hall is the platform for it. But the other question behind all this is should I run for president?

I tremendously admire, and I think we all should, the great work done by our commander in chief, our president George Bush...

President George Bush had the courage and the vision and we will always be grateful to President George Bush for that tremendous leadership and statesmanship.

President Bush says we've turned the corner in Iraq. What is that, about 16 corners we've turned? I think they call that running in circles.

A foreigner coming here and reading the Congressional Record would say that the President of the United States was elected solely for the purpose of giving Senators somebody to call a horse thief.

Rail-splitting produced an immortal president in Lincoln, but golf hasn't produced even a good Congressman.

That's one thing about Republican Presidents. They never went in much for plans. They only had one plan. It says "Boys, my head is turned. Just get it while you can.

We elect our Presidents, be they Republican or Democrat, then start daring 'em to make good.

Will Rogers used to say he wouldn't run for president no matter how badly the country needed a comedian.

President Coolidge said, 'I don't want the Government to go into business.' Well, if I was Mr. Coolidge I wouldn't worry over that. The Government never has been accused of being a business man.

I feel like I could run for President. People often laugh, but if I set my mind to it, within the next 15 years I could be in the White House.

Give me about 10 years, I'm going to run for President. If I can squeeze in an NBA championship before that, I'll do it.

I truly believe that I can be president of the US if I really want to.

Now that Obama's president, it changes inner-city youths. They can now not just dream to be Lil Waynes and 50 Cents, but they can now dream to be Obamas.

Why not Bill Gates for president? There are so many businesses' that empower charities. How many men give away all their money to charities? Why not them for President?

When I first heard that Barack Obama was going to be the first black president, I wanted to do the smallest, biggest tribute in history.

President Bush was widely ridiculed for consulting the Reverend Billy Graham before the Gulf war.

He [William Henry Harrison] did not live long enough to prove his incapacity for the office of President.

The presidents I served under don't have anything to do with my politics.

Elected presidents are for countries.

One cannot always be sure of the truth of what one hears if he happens to be President of the United States.

The truth is that in my present life I don't remember that I ever was president.

Being President is a little like being the grounds-keeper at a cemetery: there's plenty of people below you but no one's listening.

Without a high pain threshold, you can't be a successful President.

I might not have been President if it hadn't been for school music. Learning improves in school environments where there are comprehensive music programs.

I'm sure I spent more time in Texas than anybody else who had run for President recently.

Everybody knows that I have tougher ethics rules than any previous President.

If a President of the United States ever lied to the American people, he should resign.

Presidents are not permitted to have personal feelings.

There are always going to be people who want to be president, and some days I'd like to give it to them.

I may not have been the greatest president, but I've had the most fun eight years.

When you're president, you learn to act like you know what you're talking about. And it's a great skill.

Even if it takes changing the law, the president should honor the commitment the federal government made to those people and let them keep what they got.

The economy has produced 6.1 million jobs since I became president, and if Michael Jordan comes back to the Bulls, it will be 6,100,001 jobs.

I don't think I would have become President if it were not for my school music program.

The worst thing about not being president anymore is I was disoriented for three weeks because nobody every played a song when I walked in.

When you're president, you have more power to help more people, but you also are the prisoner of circumstances as well, and countervailing political forces more.

I wanted to continue to be active on those things that I cared about when I was president where I could still have an impact.

I don't think [Mitt] Romney can sit there and wait to win because perhaps people are disappointed with President [Barack] Obama.

If you look at the polls - the conservatives are fine.I think there will be a fair amount of enthusiasm, or at least motivation. They very much want to remove President [Barack] Obama.

There was specific constitutional provision for emergency measures in the case that Abraham Lincoln faced - an insurrection - which no other president has faced.