President Quotes

I think I should be a president. President of the United States.

I have simply tried to do what seemed best each day, as each day came.

History buffs probably noted the reunion at a Washington party a few weeks ago of three ex-presidents: Carter, Ford and Nixon - See No Evil, Hear No Evil and Evil.

Folks, I can tell you I've known eight presidents, three of them intimately.

Grow up, Donald Trump. Grow up. Time to be an adult. You're president. You gotta do something. Show us what you have.

Don't people know that they don't have to heckle the president of the United States? That's what Congress is for.

Our President has given symbolic support to the National Day of Prayer but I believe that our nation needs an impassioned call to our collective knees.

He may be president, but he still comes home and swipes my socks.

Like as a wise man in time of peace prepares for war.

So that was Reagan's political problem. As a rancher in California, he was an environmentalist himself. But the President of the United States doesn't control everything that happens in Washington.

There isn't a mayor in the world or a president in the world that can stop homicides.

If Newt Gingrich would be President tomorrow, I would be a happy person.

I will not seek, and I will not accept the nomination of my party for another term as your president.

The way I read Billy Carter's testimony, he was a model citizen himself until the voters went and ruined his life by making his brother President.

There's nobody who's had a resume like [Hillary Clinton] that's run for president.

I'm not going to change who I am. I'm not going to change why I'm running... I'm running for president [in 2016], and I'm running because we can't afford another four years like the last eight years.

The government doesn't run the economy. The economy is run by the private sector. The job of the president is to ensure we [the state] have policies that allow the private sector to grow and prosper.

When you're bringing in a fairly unknown candidate challenging a sitting president, the population needs a lot more information than reduced coverage provides.

With a black president, I can relax... I can dance in public... I can buy a whole watermelon now.

Will Herman Cain become the first black President that I acknowledge? I call him a dark horse because he's an unlikely candidate who surged forward, and not because he's a horse.

Why don't presidents fight the war? - Why do they always send the poor?

We must improve our lives and we will do it together - all of our citizens and myself as president of Ukraine.

I promise that as a president elected in a direct popular vote, I will try to be the voice of all citizens.

As a Member of the CBC, I will fight tooth and nail to increase funding for programs, such as Ryan White, that were flat funded in the President's budget.

The president is the cuticle of the nail bed of America: one would think pushing back makes him stronger, yet it turns out the opposite is true.

The president has very little effect on the economy. If you want to put blame or credit, the main person who influences the business cycle is the head of the Federal Reserve Bank.

John Kerry will be the Democratic nominee for president. Democrats finally found someone who is Al Gore without the flash and the sizzle.

Mr. President, you were elected to lead. You chose to follow. And now it's time for you to get out of the way.

I was friends with President Ronald Reagan and he once said to me, 'I don't know how anybody can serve in public office without being an actor.

It's President [Barack] Obama sounding the alarm, scaring the crap out of the American people. Saying if you don't raise the debt feeling, we're going to default.

No power but Congress can declare war, but what is the value of this constitutional provision, if the President of his own authority may make such military movements as must bring on war?

We did not have a terrorist attack on our country during President Bush's term.

Any chance I had to get in front of people - amateur talent contests at movie houses like the Broadway, the president - I took.

I've just landed having returned from a very important and special meeting with the President of Mexico, a man I like and respect very much. And a man who truly loves his country, Mexico.

My fellow Republicans, when Donald Trump becomes president of the United States of America, the change will be huge.

We have a president for whom English is a second language. He's like 'We have to get rid of dictators,' but he's pretty much one himself.

Experience has already shown that the impeachment the Constitution has provided is not even a scarecrow.

I guess this is a bad time to mention I hung a dummy and painted Seneca Crane's name on it.

The prison scandal is really hurting President Bush's poll numbers. In fact, I hear he's already working on his concession smirk.

We can support our troops without supporting our president.

Donald Trump says he’s President Obama’s worst nightmare. That’s not true. Having to make a decision is Obama’s worst nightmare.

I voted for President Bush. I voted for President Clinton and although I do want my vote back, I voted for President Obama.

Harry Truman proves that old adage that any man can become President of the United States.

Hopefully with a woman President the double standard will slowly begin to wane.

You see, Mr. President - real leaders don't follow polls. Real leaders change polls.

You can know a person by the kind of desk he keeps. If the president of a company has a clean desk then it must be the executive vice president who is doing all the work.

So you can look me in the eye and say that you are a president committed to cleaning up the environment?

My parents would always say, 'It doesnt' matter if it's a guy picking up the garbage or the President of the United States, treat everybody as you would want to be treated.

No president has the right to say he is judge, jury and executioner.

I never thought we'd ever have a black president. President Obama has done such a tremendous job He just has been unable to get what he needs to be moved at the level it should be moved.