Presidential Quotes

Everybody knows they're on the Obama team: There isn't vice presidential vs. presidential division, there's not a generational pull. People have internalized that this is a real moment in history.

There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism.

Conservation means development as much as it does protection.

That is enough to win a three-way presidential race. If young people understand they have the numbers and they have the power to come out and turn this election on its head.

Not a season passes without new disclosures showing Nixon's numerous attempts at criminal use of his presidential powers and in fact the scorn he held for the rule of law.

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

Our most dangerous tendency is to expect too much of government, and at the same time do for it too little.

Don't automatically obey Presidential directives if you disagree or if you suspect he hasn't considered key aspects of the issue.

We can say with some assurance that, although children may be the victims of fate, they will not be the victims of our neglect.

The era of big government is over.

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.

I feel in the depths of my soul that it is the highest, most sacred, and most irreversible part of my obligation to preserve the union of these states, although it may cost me my life.

I have come to the conclusion that the major part of the president is to increase the gate receipts of expositions and fairs and bring tourists to town.

I am the first to admit that were I not a woman, I would not have been the vice-presidential nominee.

I am a Ford, not a Lincoln.

I have a job to do. ... If you think right now I give a damn about presidential politics, then you don't know me.

It should be heart-breaking to every American that we have a frontrunner in the presidential race that suggests there will be a religious test for anybody who wishes to come to our shores.

I say women exhibit the most exalted virtue when they depart from the domestic circle and enter on the concerns of their country, of humanity, and of their G-d!

We have nothing in our history or position to invite aggression; we have everything to beckon us to the cultivation of relations of peace and amity with all nations.

No man who ever held the office of president would congratulate a friend on obtaining it.

I'm going to be so presidential that you people will be so bored.

In the field of world policy; I would dedicate this nation to the policy of the good neighbor.

Hillary Clinton doesn't look presidential.

The slogan of progress is changing from the full dinner pail to the full garage.

I am heartily rejoiced that my term is so near its close. I will soon cease to be a servant and will become a sovereign.

A public debt is a public curse.

The West Wing seems to be feeding the myth about how presidential politics are.

Aggression unopposed becomes a contagious disease.

We believe in separation of church and state, that there should be no unwarranted influence on the church or religion by the state, and vice versa.

I believe in the separation of church and state and would not use my authority to violate this principle in any way.

I've committed adultery in my heart.

Thousand points of light.

I want a kinder, gentler nation.

It is weakness rather than wickedness which renders men unfit to be trusted with unlimited power.

A little tough talk in the midst of a campaign or as part of a presidential debate cannot obscure a record of 30 years of being on the wrong side of defense issues.

A pen is certainly an excellent instrument to fix a man's attention and to inflame his ambition.

I may be the only person, the only presidential candidate who never carried the state in which he was born.

I had hoped that the current presidential campaign debates might educate the public as to what is really involved in the ongoing controversy over campaign financing.

Declare church and state forever separate and distinct; but each free within their proper spheres.

An injured friend is the bitterest of foes.

Lincoln, steeped in the Bible and Shakespeare, set an impossibly high bar for presidential prose.

From the 12th Congressional District Hopeful William Jefferson Clinton during the Nixon investigations. I wanted to share some information I've turned up regarding two of your Clinton quotes.

Sooner or later, I need to begin to do what any candidate does in a presidential race; I need to begin to win.

Come now. let us reason together.

It is an incalculable added pleasure to any one's sum of happiness if he or she grows to know, even slightly and imperfectly, how to read and enjoy the wonder-book of nature.

You cannot win a battle in any arena merely by defending yourself.

You ain't learnin' nothin' when you're talkin'.

It's amazing what you can accomplish if you simply refuse to quit.

Our alliance is born, not of fear, but of hope. It is an alliance that advances what we are for, as well as opposes what we are against.

I think [ unpopular presidential candidates ] indicates, at least on the Democratic side, that we've got more work to do to strengthen our grassroots networks.