Presidential Quotes

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

In the execution of Presidential decisions work to be true to his views, in fact and tone.

In serving his vision of the truth, the artist best serves his nation.

Every citizen owes to the country a vigilant watch and close scrutiny of its public servants and a fair and reasonable estimate of their fidelity.

It is the Soviet Union that runs against the tide of human history by denying human freedom and human dignity to its citizens.

The course of unbalanced budgets is the road to ruin

Governments don't control things. A government can't control the economy without controlling people.

If it takes a bloodbath now let's get it over with.

I understand personally, ... that it is frustrating to lose presidential elections by narrow margins.

During my 2004 presidential campaign, I was fond of saying that it was high time for the Christian right to meet the right Christians.

They [The Soviet Union] are the focus of evil in the modern world.

Trust the people -- that is the crucial lesson of history.

I like the job I have, but if I had to live my life over again, I would like to have ended up a sports writer.

The great silent majority.

For among nations - as within nations - the soundest unity is that which respects diversity, and the strongest cohesion is that which rejects coercion.

We must not be misled by the claim that the source of all wisdom is in the government.

Unlike presidential administrations, problems rarely have terminal dates.

Because liberalism typically doesn't sell in American presidential politics, liberal candidates tend to run as culturally conservative centrists.

A candidate could easily commit political suicide if he were to come up with an unconventional thought during a presidential tour.

We need a spirit of community, a sense that we are all in this together. If we have no sense of community, the American dream will wither.

All that harms labor is treason to America.

In regard to this Great Book, I have but to say, it is the best gift God has given to man.

I am glad to see that a system of labor prevails under which laborers can strike when they want to.

We... joked a little about presidential portraits. He [Bill Clinton] told me that he and Harrison Ford had been joking recently about how chins drop with age, and he didn't want to look that way.

Internal improvement and the diffusion of knowledge, so far as they can be promoted by the constitutional acts of the Federal Government, are of high importance.

No President has ever enjoyed himself as much as I?

Next to the right of liberty, the right of property is the most important individual right guaranteed by the Constitution . .

I was going to have a few comments on the other Democratic presidential candidate, John Edwards, but it turns out that you have to go into rehab if you use the word 'faggot.'

A good character carries with it the highest power of causing a thing to be believed.

You didn't build that. Somebody else made that happen.

Socialism proposes no adequate substitute for the motive of enlightened selfishness that today is at the basis of all human labor and effort, enterprise and new activity.

You have to exercise, or at some point you'll just break down.

[America] will stand steadfast with Israel in pursuit of security and a lasting peace.

There is one catagory of advertising which is totally uncontrolled and flagrantly dishonest: the television commercials for candidates in Presidential elections.

I think the Democratic Party realizes, having lost two presidential elections, we need to do a better job of creating a farm team.

Somebody asked me about the current choice we're being given in the presidential election. I said, Well, it's like two of the scariest movies I can imagine.

Everyone knows the presidential candidates and has an opinion about them. But as you get to smaller races, that evaporates and you can win through sheer elbow grease.

Presidential ambition is a disease that can only be cured by embalming fluid.

I will totally accept the results of this great and historic presidential election if I win. I would also reserve my right to contest or file a legal challenge in the case of a questionable result.

Just as I went into politics because Joe died, if anything happened to me tomorrow, my brother Bobby would run for my seat in the Senate. And if Bobby died, Teddy would take over for him.

I read the book [My Life by Bill Clinton] completely. And I think it compares very favorably with Ulysses S. Grant's gold standard of presidential autobiographies.

We've got 50 percent voter turnout for presidential elections. That's appalling. We can do so much better.

If image is everything, how can the Democratic presidential hopefuls compete with a President fresh from a war victory.

We asked for God's help; and now, in this shining outcome, in this magnificent triumph of good over evil, we should thank God.

Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.

I will never lie to you.

Your boys are not going to be sent into any foreign wars.

Our partnership has been built on four pillars The first pillar is peace. The second pillar is freedom. The third pillar is respect. The fourth pillar is cooperation.

A President's hardest task is not to do what is right, but to know what is right.

I will insist that the Hebrews have done more to civilize man than any other nation.