Presidency Quotes

As the Trump presidency goes on, there will be a transcendency of power and culture and vision from the music scene, the art world that will find a voice and give hope to us all.

We need to do more than win an election or win the House or win the presidency, my friends: we need to make this beloved country of ours God's country once again.

The presidency is not an office job. If I only sit in the office in Dar es Salaam I'm not running the country.

Well, Warren Harding, I have got you the presidency. What are you going to do with it?

I would rather starve and rot and keep the privilege of speaking the truth as I see it, than of holding all the offices that capital has to give from the presidency down.

The final greatness of the presidency lies in the truth that it is not just an office of incredible power but a breeding ground of indestructible myth.

I never wanted to get out of a place as much as I did to get out of the presidency.

George W. Bush did an incredible job in the presidency, defending us from freedom.

What people have got to remember is that Sept. 11 happened in 2001 and not in 2003. It was planned under the presidency of Bill Clinton.

There is no office now closed to a Jew, including the presidency.

There has been so much power concentrated. There is no leash on that power anymore and Americans face the situation that this power is getting momentum with each passing year with each presidency.

Anybody who is an ambitious politician would never ever aspire to a Vice Presidency. And yet, people find themselves in that position, and so, therein lies the rub.

Individual liberty is individual power.

I didn't need to [run for presidency], but it's about you. It's about bringing our country, making our country great again.

I teach at USC, and it's obvious to anyone who teaches college students that they don't cover much modern history and certainly not the modern presidency.

Removing Saddam Hussein was the right decision early in my presidency, it is the right decision now, and it will be the right decision ever.

The Presidency is not a bed of roses.

I thought it completely absurd to mention my name in the same breath as the presidency.

As a president I will be like the candidate that I am, a respectful candidate, a rallying candidate, a normal candidate for a normal presidency, at the service of the Republic.

Well, it seems to me Lincoln, I suppose, is kind of a model of a particular sort of presidency, a presidency that first of all is elected by a minority of the votes.

Unsuccessful candidates for the Presidency should be quietly hanged as a matter of public sanitation and decorum.

The Obama presidency has two great missions: fixing the economy, and preventing Iran from gaining nuclear weapons.

The US presidency will continue to represent the major power groups of the United States - big business and the military - regardless of who the talking head is.

You win the presidency by connecting with the American people's gut insecurities and aspirations. You win with a concept.

The presidency has many problems, but boredom is the least of them.

We have entered the era of the 'imperial' former presidency with lavish libraries, special staffs and benefits, around-the-clock Secret Service protection for life and other badges of privilege.

Scrubbing floors and emptying bedpans has as much dignity as the Presidency.

What I'm interested in doing after I get out of the presidency is to make sure that I'm working with that next generation so that they understand you can't just rely on inspiration.

PRESIDENCY, n. The greased pig in the field game of American politics.

I think George W. Bush has a warm, engaging personality. But, you know, the presidency is more than just a popularity contest.

The presidency is more than a popularity contest.

Trying to make the presidency work these days is like trying to sew buttons on a custard pie.

My fellow citizens, the American Presidency is not supposed to be a journey of personal discovery.

I reached a situation in which I cannot conduct the presidency.

The CIA has concluded in a secret assessment that Russia intervened in the 2016 election to help Donald Trump win the presidency rather than just to undermine confidence in the U.S. electoral system.

It is with complete allegiance to the cause of racial and social justice and the NAACP that I step aside from the Presidency and pass the baton to my Vice President, Naima Quarles-Burnley.

In golf, you keep your head down and follow through. In the vice presidency, you keep your head up and follow through. It's a big difference.

Again, President Reagan was sort of an amiable presence out at the ranch by the last 6 months of his presidency. He had no effect on national policy at all.

If the Soviet empire still existed, I'd be terrified. The fact is, we can afford a fairly ignorant presidency now.

It is my fondest wish that in the fullness of time, the American people will look back on the Franken presidency as something of a mixed bag and not as a complete disaster.

By disgracing and degrading the presidency of the United States, by fleeing the White House like a diseased cur, Richard Nixon broke the heart of the American Dream.

I think it [presidency of Dwight Eisenhower] came too late and I think that he is not on the wavelength of this dreadful time through which we're living.

Extremism is the pursuit of the presidency is an unpardonable vice. Moderation in the affairs of the nation is the highest virtue.

My husband is not running for the presidency, neither are my children, neither is our business, neither are our foster children.

In his first 100 days, Mr. Obama has put the fate of his presidency in the hands of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. He may come to regret that decision.

This is a core principle of my presidency - if you threaten America, you will find no safe haven.

Don't any of you realize there's only one life between that madman and the Presidency?

The presidency does not yield to definition. Like the glory of a morning sunrise, it can be experienced.

The student community of Presidency College was also politically most active.

Not every President is a great speaker. Not every President is a great thinker. But in the modern era, every single President is a master of one thing: eye contact.