President Quotes

In my country we go to prison first and then become President.

There's never been A day in the last four years I've been proud to be his Vice President. Not a single day.

I wouldn't run for President. I wouldn't want to move to a smaller house.

How do we get from electrons to elections and from protons to presidents?

No pecuniary consideration is more urgent, than the regular redemption and discharge of the public debt: on none can delay be more injurious, or an economy of time more valuable.

Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump are the most disliked and untrusted candidates for president in American history.

I have a great deal of concern for any president and the amount of power they accumulate versus congress. I'm a stickler about the idea of separation of powers.

Terrorist', noun: 1. Someone my government tells me is a terrorist; 2. Someone my President decides to kill.

No man who enters upon the office to which I have succeeded can fail to recognize how every president of the United States has placed special reliance upon his faith in God.

There are potential policy consequences to a president who doesn't believe in our election system and believes that there's rampant voter fraud.

It is not that you set the individual apart from society but that you recognize in any society that the individual must have rights that are guarded.

I would not be President because I do not aspire to be President. But l'm sure that a woman will be President. When? I don't know. It depends. I don't think the woods are full of candidates today.

The people don't elect U.S. presidents, God does.

I made one great mistake in my life-when I signed the letter to President Roosevelt recommending that atom bombs be made but there was some justification-the danger that the Germans would make them.

I would rather have peace in the world than be President.

A President cannot always be popular.

President [Ronald] Reagan told me he would negotiate and negotiate and negotiate with the Soviets, and I believed him.

All you need to know about Donald Trump is he loves his family and he loves this country. And he's going to be a great president of the United States.

No president can easily commit our sons and daughters to war.

The money the president wants to borrow for Iraq will come directly out of the American taxpayer wallets in the form of Medicare and Social Security receipts. That's your money

Being on President Nixon's enemies list was the highest single honor I've ever received. Who knows who's listening to me now and what government list I'm on?

It's easy being vice president - you don't have to do anything.

You know my father as governor, as president, but I knew him as dad. I was so proud to have the Reagan name and to be Ronald Reagan's son.

It was announced that President Obama and his wife, when they're finished in Washington, are moving to New York City. The guy just can't get enough gridlock.

I think I'd make a pretty good president, and they have a great pension plan.

People elect the President for reasons that have nothing to do with his ability to be president.

But there are advantages to being elected President. The day after I was elected, I had my high school grades classified Top Secret.

Astronomers have discovered a planet that is twice the size of earth and made of diamonds. President Obama says the planet may be inhabited by aliens not paying their fair share.

Whoever we are here, we might be princesses somewhere else. Or writers. Or scientists. Or presidents. Or whatever the hell we want to be that everyone else says we can't.

Get inside information from the president and you will probably lose half of your money. If you get it from the chairman of the board, you will lose all of it.

Trans Am sales went up 70 percent after Smokey and the Bandit, and I was promised a free car every year for life by the Pontiac president.

The White House and the president [Donald Trump] himself remains very worrisome, alarming, almost.

Five years ago, when I was elected, I had the feeling that the president doesn't have much to do. I've realized, though, that this is not a rubber-stamp position.

The most used phrase in my administration if I were to be President would be 'What the hell you mean we're out of missiles?'

I've never been a fan of presidents who place blame on their predecessors or who accept credit for events that couldn't have been engineered so soon in their tenure.

We, Norton I, do hereby decree that the offices of President, Vice President, and Speaker of the House of Representatives are, from and after this date, abolished.

It's interesting how Obama's adorers in the press keep comparing him to Lincoln and Reagan. Apparently they can't think of a Democrat president worthy of being compared to.

When I mentioned about Adlai Stevenson, if he was vice president there would never have been an assassination of our beloved President Kennedy

If she were a President, she'd be Babe-raham Lincoln!

I think the President ought to bring everybody that's in American uniform back because we're headed for war.

Well, it is alarming to have a president [Reagan] who doesn't know what he is doing.

From the first day I took the decision as President to defend my country.

The 1960s: A lot of people remember hating President Lyndon Baines Johnson and loving Janis Joplin and Jim Morrison, depending on the point of view. God rest their souls.

I feel it's important that in advising the president, if confirmed, that I deal with facts, that I deal with sufficient information. Which means having access to all information.

Before consulting the hotheads who present various military options such as a military invasion: remember, President Reagan, Rambo only exists in the movies.

It will take time to restore chaos

Frankly, I don't mind not being President. I just mind that someone else is.

I haven't eaten at a McDonald's since I became President.

The ongoing strife in Iraq, and the billions of dollars that the President is seeking to continue that war, give me little comfort that this Administration has learned from its mistakes in Iraq.

Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him.