Presidential Quotes

Delay is preferable to error.

Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.

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.

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

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.

The first presidential debate was down in Florida. Residents spent all day putting plywood on their televisions.

Herman Cain has suspended his presidential campaign, but he has asked the Secret Service if they could continue to provide him protection, at least until his wife cools off.

The 2016 presidential campaign is heating up. Can you feel the indifference, the apathy?

Every now and then, a presidential candidate surprises us with a truly human and honest moment.

I heard one presidential candidate say that what this country needed was a president for the nineties. I was set to run again. I thought he said a president IN his nineties.

The weak economy, widening income inequality, gridlock in Congress and a presidential election: Those were perhaps the dominant economic and political themes of 2012.

I can be the most presidential person ever, other than possibly the great Abe Lincoln, all right?

The United States is the best and fairest and most decent nation on the face of the earth.

You never know what your history is going to be like until long after you're gone.

The Independence and Liberty you possess are the work of joint councils and joint efforts, of common dangers, sufferings and successes.

If you're not part of that club, as I certainly am not, you are not presidential.

Good ball players make good citizens.

Truth alone can stand the guns of criticism.

All power in human hands is liable to be abused.

I consider a decent respect for Christianity among the best recommendations for public service.

It's only when they join together in a forward movement that this country moves ahead.

The Federal Budget can and should be made an instrument of prosperity and stability, not a deterrent to recovery.

The leadership of the American Legion has not had a constructive thought for the benefit of this country since 1918.

I have said that control of arms is a mission that we undertake particularly for our children and our grandchildren and that they have no lobby in Washington.

If I don't have a woman for three days, I get terrible headaches.

Hurricane Sandy interrupted Mr. Romney’s momentum and allowed Mr. Obama to look presidential and bipartisan.

The crotch, down where your nuts hang, is always a little too tight.

Only in psychiatry is the existence of physical disease determined by APA presidential proclamations, by committee decisions, and even, by a vote of the members of APA, not to mention the courts.

The Commission on Presidential Debates is a corrupt stranglehold on our democracy.

Al Gore adopted three utterly different personas in three national presidential debates.

Much has been given us, and much will rightfully be expected from us. We have duties to others and duties to ourselves; and we can shrink neither.

Sometimes in the middle of a presidential campaign, there's a political movie, and people are sick of hearing about politics, and they don't want to see that movie. They'd rather see "Godzilla."

Donald Trump is not a normal presidential candidate.

Marco Rubio's presidential campaign has raised $40 million in the last week. When he heard that, Rubio said, 'Hey, any chance I can drop out of the race and just keep the 40 million?'

Americans long to be united. After 9/11, we all just wanted to be one nation. Not a single American on September the 12, 2001, cared who won the next presidential election.

I welcome the signing by the presidential candidates Dr. Abdullah Abdullah and Dr. Ashraf Ghani of an agreement on the formation of a government of national unity in Afghanistan.

The Governor has no presidential aspirations. In fact he just made a tour of 43 states just to tell them he's not running for anything.

Public debt [is] a burden on all the people.

The more I study it [the Constitution], the more I have come to admire it, realizing that no other document devised by the hand of man ever brought so much progress and happiness to humanity.

Anything is possible for women, including being a presidential nominee.

President Obama, by the way, has set a Guinness World Record as the fastest person to get a million Twitter followers. Obama now has as many followers as the Republicans have presidential candidates.

Republicans are having trouble luring Gov. Chris Christie into the presidential race. They should try pie.

Today, the L.A. Times accused Arnold Schwarzenegger of groping six women. I'm telling ya, this guy is presidential material.

We are now speeding down the road of wasteful spending and debt, and unless we can escape we will be smashed in inflation.

Next to religion, baseball has had a greater impact on our American way of life than any other American institution.

The study of this Book in your Bible classes is a post-graduate course in the richest library of human experience.

We have learned that social injustice is the destruction of justice itself.

But however close we sometimes seem to that dark and final abyss, let no man of peace and freedom despair. For he does not stand alone.

Evil acts of the past are never rectified by evil acts of the present.

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