President Quotes

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.

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

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

Joe Biden would probably be running a Denny's if he wasn't Vice President.

I am Congress; I'm president.

Ronald Reagan is the most ignorant president since Warren Harding.

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

The ruling power is always faced with the question, ‘In such and such circumstances, what would you do?’, whereas the opposition is not obliged to take responsibility or make any real decisions.

Ohio claims they are due a president as they haven't had one since Taft. Look at the United States, they have not had one since Lincoln.

While Congress saw some need to loosen the standard in the initial days of a war, it wanted the president to comply with FISA in carrying out surveillance in the United States.

There is not a single person in the national defense apparatus of this country that can guarantee you are going to be 100 percent right. And that's why as president, I'll take this very seriously.

President Bush left for Canada today to attend a trade summit. Reportedly, the trade summit got off to an awkward start when the president pulled out his baseball cards.

Nixon had some large achievements in foreign affairs. They will be remembered. But a president probably gets remembered for one thing, and Watergate will head the Nixon list, I suspect.

The President is responsible to the public for the conduct of the person he has nominated and appointed.

What can I do if everyone from the president to a junior bureaucrat is dying to convict me. If I am such a criminal, what was I doing outside jail before my marriage to Benazir?

Mrs Thatcher tells us she has given the French President a piece of her mind... not a gift I would receive with alacrity.

We have 51 golf courses in Palm Springs. He [President Ford] never decides which course he will play until after the first tee shot.

To be President of the United States, sir, is to act as advocate for a blind, venomous, and ungrateful client.

I want to kill the president because I no like the capitalists. I have the gun in my hand, I kill kings and presidents first and next all capitalists.

Where a new invention promises to be useful, it ought to be tried.

I personally believe that the office of the President of India is not to be sought. It is to be offered.

With any president it is difficult to predict how the world will be effected by his presence in the white house.

Indian president does not determine policy. Here President is not the policy maker. In the name of the president, the cabinet takes the policy decision.

Not that they were that anxious to see Ronnie as President; they were afraid if he didn't get elected, he'd go back to acting.

The president really shouldn't be involved in terms of dictating what course the investigation should take.

I have always said I would not have been President had it not been for my experience in North Dakota.

If Barack Obama becomes the president in November again, I will either be dead or in jail by this time next year.

I am concerned about a president [Bill Clinton] under oath, being alleged to have committed perjury. I hope that he can rebut that and prove that did not happen.

I pledge to you today that as president, in my first budget, I will introduce the largest increase in special education ever.

There's no doubt that usually a president's public image is enhanced by going to war. That never did appeal to me.

A new study says that working fewer hours can slow global warming. So you know what that means? President Obama's economic policy is also his climate change policy.

The President of the United States has a much wider power than the German Kaiser had, for he depended on parliament.

We have a President, perhaps for the very first time since the founding of our republic, who doesn't appear to believe that America is the greatest earthly force for good the world has ever known.

[On hearing that President Coolidge was dead:] How can you tell?

The behaviour of President Bush on 11 September certainly gives rise to not unnatural suspicions.

Assassins and presidents invite the same basic question: Just who do you think you are?

Every President that went to China, I would meet them and have dinner and talk about the past and the future. That was in the '70s.

My children were born into this. They will always be the grandchildren of the President and First Lady of the United States.

The President is aware of what is going on. That is not to say that something is going on.

Putin is no different than any other powerful man, like a Senator, or a President.

Most of the problems a President has to face have their roots in the past.

You cannot be president of the United States if people below $50,000 don't think you care about them and you have no real communication that motivates them to vote for you.

So, if you're doing good longform with talented people than you can step out and you can be the president or a construction worker and people accept that. It's really the roles you give yourself.

The President hears a hundred voices telling him that he is the greatest man in the world. He must listen carefully indeed to hear the one voice that tells him his is not.

Is America ready for a black president? Well, I say we just had a retarded one. When did being black become a bigger deterrent than being retarded?

Suppose something would happen to the president, who would be in charge? The Vice President. Joe Biden? You have got to be kidding today when you say the Taliban's not our enemy.

Mr. President, the buzz saw that your healthcare bill ran into wasn't lobbyists and special interests it was tens of millions of American's who were saying, 'Stop!'

We had a national tragedy this week, and the President of the United States and Sarah Palin both made speeches on the same day. Obama came out against lunatics with guns, she gave the rebuttal.

Mr. President, we've taken off our "Kick Me" sign.