President Quotes
We need a return to transparency and a system of checks and balances, to a president who respects Congress' role of oversight and accountability.
If I was president of the good old U.S.A., I'd turn the churches into strip clubs and watch the whole world pray.
I can be President of the United States, or I can control Alice. I cannot possibly do both.
We're breaking protocol here. That's the good thing about being President - I can do whatever I want.
Lyrically I'm supposed to represent, I'm not only the client, I'm the player president
Presidents in both parties - from John F. Kennedy to Ronald Reagan - have known that our free-enterprise economy is the source of our middle-class prosperity.
I am running for president to return our country to the principles of liberty and limited government.
I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it. And I'm President of the United States and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli.
Bad men cannot make good citizens. A vitiated state of morals, a corrupted public conscience are incompatible with freedom.
Let us remember that revolutions do not always establish freedom. Our own free institutions were not the offspring of our revolution. They existed before.
The loneliest feeling in the world is when you think you are leading the parade and turn to find that no one is following you. No president who badly misguesses public opinion will last very long.
When one side only of a story is heard and often repeated, the human mind becomes impressed with it insensibly.
One of President Obama's winning points last night was about how sanctions against Iran are crippling their economy. And believe me, if anyone knows how to cripple an economy, it's President Obama.
In short, I don't root against President Obama because I hate America. I root against President Obama because I hate his vision for America.
Since I came here I have learned that Chester A. Arthur is one man and the President of the United States is another.
I began by telling the President that there was a cancer growing on the presidency, and if the cancer was not removed, the president himself would be killed by it.
The President is the direct representative of the American people and is elected by the people and responsible to them.
I foresee the Chinese ruling the world. What are you going to do to stop it? No president of the United States will ever have enough power to stop the Chinese when they want to take over the world.
President Obama was in India yesterday visiting our jobs. Tomorrow he goes to China to visit our money.
I love Obama because he is proof all black people don't look alike. Nobody every told me, 'Good morning, Mr. President.' We don't all look alike.
Impeach President Reagan retroactively for agreeing with Obama on the assault weapons ban.
No man can well doubt the propriety of placing a president of the United States under the most solemn obligations to preserve, protect, and defend the constitution.
For eight years, I was sleeping with the president, and if that doesn't give you special access, I don't know what does!
In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free - honorable alike in what we give and what we preserve. We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last best hope of earth.
The land flourished because it was fed from so many sources--because it was nourished by so many cultures and traditions and peoples.
If the president of the United States, if he's smart, if he needs help, he’d come. I could do a favor for the president
Hope is the only thing stronger than fear. A little hope is effective. A lot of hope is dangerous. A spark is just fine as long as its contained.
If I'm president, I'll be a commander-in-chief, not an agitator- in-chief or a divider-in-chief, that I will lead this country in a way that will create greater security and greater safety.
Congratulations to Donald Trump, the new president of the United States - and to the people of America, who are free.
Abe Lincoln is my favorite president of all time - and he pulls off that top hat pretty well.
He's not just the most powerful man in labor," Robert Kennedy had said in the wake of Hoffa's announcement; "he's the most powerful man in the country, next to the President.
When he (Richard Nixon) took the oath of office, he pledged to be the president for 100% of the people, and I challenge the president to prove that he is being the president for 100% of the people.
I was not chosen to be president to restore capitalism to Cuba. I was elected to defend, maintain and continue to perfect socialism, not destroy it.
I expect it is very possible that I would make as good a President as a great many men who are talked of for that position.
I think it is its time for the leaders of Africa to say to President Mugabe that the people of Zimbabwe's deserve a free and fair election.
Words matter when you run for president. And they really matter when you are president.
It's time to impeach the president and get a man in there to get us out of this mess.
If there is a nuclear tactic being used here, I submit it is the use of that obstruction where a willful minority blocks a bipartisan majority from voting on the President's judicial nominees.
I am the president of 146 million Russians. I have to represent their interests. We are willing to settle this without any conflicts and to search for compromises on the basis of international law.
Mitt Romney is predicting that as president, he will create 12 million jobs in his first term. Well, President Obama says a Romney presidency would result in lost jobs. Yeah, his and Biden's.
The president is the country's scapegoat more than the country's leader; the president has as much power as we think the president has. Whoever has the most money is the puppet master.
In Greece, the unemployment rate has risen to 22%. The solution to the problem was to raise taxes on the rich, according to the Greek president Barack Obama-opolis.
It's a shame that we have to use whatever leverage we have in Congress to get the president to deal with the biggest problem confronting our future. And that's our excessive spending.
If I were President, I would spend the money that is spent on wars every 20 years and spend it on giving people work. Let them build roads, bridges, buildings, schools.
