Presidential Quotes

This has always been the way of presidential politics. The president rises above the fray while his surrogates go on the attack. They throw the spears and fling the mud; he sits upon the throne.

This mode of electioneering suited neither my taste nor my principles. I thought it equally unsuitable to my personal character and to the station in which I am placed.

There is nothing so deep and nothing so shallow which political enmity will not turn to account.

Political pandering comes in all shapes and sizes, but every four years the presidential primary bring us in contact with its purest form - praising ethanol subsidies amid the corn fields of Iowa.

I care about the presidential elections. I always vote. Sometimes I've voted more than once, illegally. But you can't anymore. The picture ID has ruined everything.

Reagan is the Republican FDR, an exemplar of presidential greatness.

African-Americans have rarely been the beneficiaries of Presidential rhetorical excess.

Every presidential spouse is going to be subjected to scrutiny.

I had supported Governor George W. Bush over Senator John McCain in the 2000 Rhode Island presidential primary.

All I have I would have given gladly not to be standing here today.

I may not worry as much as Prime Minister Eshkol does about Israel, but I worry as deeply.

No nation in the world has had greater fortune than mine in sharing a continent with the people and the nation of Canada.

Senate races have tightened along with the presidential race. Watch to see how many Republican Senate candidates outperform Donald Trump - and how many hang on to their seats in states that he loses.

Yes, the presidential race is very close, and some public polls show it getting closer as we go into the final hours, but in one sense it's actually been stable for months.

Donald Trumps' senior advisor said on CNN that the US Presidential election was the ultimate reality TV show! Appeal to those you want to reach!

If Hillary Clinton wins the race, she will win it with the most diverse coalition that anybody's ever been elected by in presidential history.

I am sent on assignments just like guys. I have covered presidential campaigns, natural disasters, tragedies, red carpets, medical stories and more.

I'm defining [presidential courage] pretty narrowly. It's not only taking a big political risk but it's also the risk that in the hindsight of history, people think it's wise.

Under the system that we now have to nominate presidential candidates, for instance, I would prefer that we have a system that is closer to, say, the one we had in the 1960s.

You have had presidential candidates over the last 30 years who would have had a very hard time getting nominated under the old system. One example is John Kennedy.

I do not subscribe to the school of thought that I am leading the presidential polls because of my beautiful legs.

WikiLeaks is a service to the population. Assange should get an award for - presidential medal of honor.

Ted Sorrenson, JFK's presidential speech writer, when asked how it came about that he wrote the "ask not what you can do..." speech, he would answer 'ask not.'

The 60th seed at Wimbledon gets a chance at Center Court. The 60th seed in the NCAA gets a chance to go to the Final Four. But the third seed [in presidential politics] is shut out.

Bring us together again.

What kind of nation we will be, what kind of world we will live in, whether we shape the future in the image of our hopes, is ours to determine by our actions and our choices.

You know very well that whether you are on page one or page thirty depends on whether they fear you. It's as simple as that.

Whether you're a presidential front-runner, or an Academy Award-winning actor, or head of a TV ministry, if you stay in the public eye long enough they're going to try and find a scandal.

It is only the words of the bill that have presidential approval, where that approval is given. It is not to be supposed that in signing a bill the President endorses the whole Congressional Record.

On Platini's presidential watch... he has to balance all the leagues, all the dreams and needs of hundreds of clubs across his continent.

The 2016 presidential election is ripe for the emergence of a game-changing political leader who either dramatically reforms one of the existing parties or mounts an independent bid.

Doverey, no proverey - Trust but verify.

The United States trades more with the province of Ontario alone than with Japan.

Are you better off than you were four years ago? One of my favorite quotes Is it easier for you to go and buy things in the stores ... Is there more or less unemployment?

I don't feel like I'm running against them, I feel like I'm running to try to show the American people what I can do and what I can accomplish.

Is it any wonder somebody like Donald Trump is racing through the presidential primary process?

Ohio, you're too white, too many white people to be in any way meaningful in a presidential election.

I've always enjoyed reading history, particularly presidential biographies.

This is so sexist. I mean, are we really going to put this as a standard of something we are going to judge our presidential candidates by?

At the presidential level, everybody knows that Hillary Clinton is going to stand up for women's reproductive rights.

It's no surprise I am addicted to all the Republican presidential candidates. They are like crack -- in that they will devastate black communities.

I keep reading that Donald Trump is the most pro-LGBT GOP presidential nominee of all time - and I actually think that's true.

The fact is, presidential politics has become a game of inches.

In most presidential elections, the taller candidate wins.

The politics of crime is not about a party's record or a candidates proposals, but about perceived character and values.

We are seeing Republicans uniting behind this [presidential] campaign [2016].

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No other President ever enjoyed the Presidency as I did.

If elected, I shall see to it that every man has a square deal, no less and no more.

Presidential legacies are valuable things, too valuable to be left up to historians.