Quotes on President

I'd like President Bush to think maybe there's another way to think, that maybe Kissinger was wrong when he says we had to go in there because he was wrong about Vietnam.

Author: F. Abraham

The most important aspect of the relationship between the president and the secretary of state is that they both understand who is president.

Author: Dean Acheson

We're going to hear a lot of spirited discussion about the President's plan in the next few days and weeks and that's fine as long as everyone comes ready to talk and not just snipe, complain and argue.

Author: George Allen

The President of today is just the postage stamp of tomorrow.

Author: Gracie Allen

Well, I decided earlier this year that I would run for president, and obviously I needed something to run on.

Author: Craig Armstrong

Two years before the last election you nor anyone else would have predicted that Barack Obama was going to get elected president of the United States.

Author: David Axelrod

Then I was president of the Bakelite Corporation from 1910 to 1930.

Author: Leo Baekeland

The central question is simply put: What did the president know and when did he know it?

Author: Howard Baker, Jr.

This is said to us, even as this counterfeit president has legalized the Confederate Flag in Mississippi.

Author: Amiri Baraka

President Bush, Secretary of State Rice, and several cabinet level officials have visited Alabama's Gulf Coast in recent days to tour the devastation and to offer their continuing support and prayers for everyone affected by the storm.

Author: Jo Bonner

It's not impossible for a woman - a Black woman - to become President.

Author: Carol Braun

A woman will be elected President before Wade Boggs is called out on strikes. I guarantee that.

Author: George Brett

I think I'd be a better president because I was in combat.

Author: George Bush

I'm going to be so much better a president for having been at the CIA that you're not going to believe it.

Author: George Bush

What the president announced yesterday, is that somehow magically, if we just continue to prime the pump of taxpayer dollars, we're going to see magically an economic recovery.

Author: Eric Cantor

I don't think I'll ever be president of anything.

Author: Hoagy Carmichael

The President then proceeded to read his Emancipation Proclamation, making remarks on the several parts as he went on, and showing that he had fully considered the whole subject, in all lights under which it had been presented to him.

Author: Salmon Chase

I remember. How many minutes do I have left President? About one, one minute.

Author: Hugo Chavez

I am a President held prisoner, that I haven't resigned and I will not resign.

Author: Hugo Chavez

Some 43 percent of voters in union households voted for President Bush in 2004, according to exit poll data.

Author: Linda Chavez

I think Barack Obama is a one-term President.

Author: Dick Cheney

I had rather be right than be President.

Author: Henry Clay

I would rather be right than President.

Author: Henry Clay

I'm not going to have some reporters pawing through our papers. We are the president.

Author: Hillary Clinton

I haven't eaten at a McDonald's since I became President.

Author: William Clinton

I'm a huge Obama fan. I think it's such an unbelievably great thing to have a President who's competent and not insane.

Author: Randy Cohen

I said I didn't want to run for president. I didn't ask you to believe me.

Author: Mario Cuomo

I would say that President Roosevelt probably was more intimately in touch with the press corps at the White House than President Truman was.

Author: Clifton Daniel

At least she's the president of something, which is more than I can say.

Author: Bob Dole

I'm glad Reagan is president. Of course, I'm a professional comedian.

Author: Will Durst

The president is here, strong and firm as a monkey's tail.

Author: Jean Duvalier

But even the President of the United States sometimes must have to stand naked.

Author: Bob Dylan

I don't think Bush was legitimately elected President.

Author: Roger Ebert

They say President Wilson has blundered. Perhaps he has, but I notice he usually blunders forward.

Author: Thomas Edison

Some years ago I became president of Columbia University and learned within 24 hours to be ready to speak at the drop of a hat, and I learned something more, the trustees were expected to be ready to speak at the passing of the hat.

Author: Dwight Eisenhower

Well, when you come down to it, I don't see that a reporter could do much to a president, do you?

Author: Dwight Eisenhower

President Reagan's one-liners were terrific.

Author: Geraldine Ferraro

Vice president - it has such a nice ring to it!

Author: Geraldine Ferraro

If the President really wanted to know exactly how Rove and Libby were involved, he could walk down to their offices and demand that they answer him honestly.

Author: Bob Filner

I think with new president Chris Pook of CART, he is very active and strong.

Author: Emerson Fittipaldi

I am acutely aware that you have not elected me as your President by your ballots, so I ask you to confirm me with your prayers.

Author: Gerald Ford

I feel very proud, even though they didn't elect me, to be President of the Argentines.

Author: Leopoldo Fortunato

I had to perform at the White House for the president, That's always kind of a weird set to try to put together.

Author: Jeff Foxworthy

I have great respect for President Bush, Secretary Powell and Secretary Ridge.

Author: Elton Gallegly

If I am a Republican shill, wouldn't you think I am the least amount of a threat to the president?

Author: Jeff Gannon

For President Clinton, according to this discussion I had with him, Rwanda was a marginal problem.

Author: Boutros Ghali

George W. Bush is not only a great president; he was a great candidate.

Author: Ed Gillespie

I believe we will elect a new President in 2012.

Author: Newt Gingrich

I have just come from the castle, where I have seen the president of the republic, and I can tell you that he has accepted all of my proposals without making any changes.

Author: Klement Gottwald

I oppose the president's plan to privatize Social Security.

Author: Brian Higgins

It's been years, decades, since a president has lost a major trade initiative. That would be bad headlines.

Author: Gwen Ifill

The President has been a big proponent of the public option since the campaign.

Author: Valerie Jarrett

The stories have been told so often by those of us who supported President Reagan over the years that they seem mundane, almost like a fictional novel or a movie script.

Author: William Jenkins

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

Author: Lyndon Johnson

Every President wants to do right.

Author: Lyndon Johnson

I'm the only president you've got.

Author: Lyndon Johnson

The last thing I wanted to do was to be a wartime President.

Author: Lyndon Johnson

The president's budget proposals have neglected water infrastructure.

Author: Sue Kelly

Like Odysseus, the President looked wiser when he was seated.

Author: John Keynes

If you don't like the President, it costs you 90 bucks to fly to Washington to picket. If you don't like the Governor, it costs you 60 bucks to fly to Albany to picket. If you don't like me, 90 cents.

Author: Edward Koch

So I think that I can say, as the President of Poland, we're proud that I am coming from Poland, which is different and what's more important, much better than before.

Author: Aleksander Kwasniewski

The President would usually talk to me about matters relating to the immigration problem.

Author: Erich Leinsdorf

President Bush has been silent on Schwarzenegger. Of course, he can't pronounce Schwarzenegger.

Author: David Letterman

I certainly know that this relationship could not have continued the way it did, when I was at the Pentagon and the president was obviously at the White House, without Betty.

Author: Monica Lewinsky

Ronald Reagan was the greatest president of the twentieth century.

Author: Rush Limbaugh

Hey, I'm a former union president myself and also an attorney that represented a lot of unions.

Author: Stephen Lynch

What's been extraordinary about this president, Tim, and what's unique about this president is not that the administration is sputtering but rather everything he's taken on he's been able to accomplish.

Author: Ken Mehlman

We are worried about the size of the deficit, which is why the president is pleased that the House and Senate have followed his lead in cutting the deficit in half over the next five years.

Author: Ken Mehlman

I don't know the answer to that question. I don't think it matters to the fundamental question here because at bottom, this president believes in non-discrimination.

Author: Ken Mehlman

Any politician who wants to run for president will come to me in a few years.

Author: Sun Moon

Clinton was a pretty good president for a Republican.

Author: Michael Moore

We are still waiting for the president to introduce a concrete plan. He has just hinted at what he is thinking about doing, but no one has seen a proposal.

Author: Grace Napolitano

When George Washington was elected president, there was no national vote.

Author: Ben Nelson

Anytime the president visits Nebraska its good for Nebraska.

Author: Ben Nelson

When the President does it, that means that it's not illegal.

Author: Richard Nixon

We, Norton I, do hereby decree that the offices of President, Vice President, and Speaker of the House of Representatives are, from and after this date, abolished.

Author: Joshua Norton

Al Qaeda is still a threat. We cannot pretend somehow that because Barack Hussein Obama got elected as president, suddenly everything is going to be OK.

Author: Barack Obama

President Clinton signed a $10 million deal to write a book by 2003. Isn't that amazing? Yes, and get this, not only that, President Bush signed a $10 million deal to read a book by 2003.

Author: Conan O'Brien

Reagan's dead, and he was a lousy President.

Author: Keith Olbermann

Although I wasn't invited to shake hands with Hitler, I wasn't invited to the White House to shake hands with the President either.

Author: Jesse Owens

The Chavez-Obama pictures will join a postmodern photo array that includes Donald Rumsfeld gifting Saddam Hussein with spurs from President Reagan.

Author: Christine Pelosi

Obama is a president, who I think is anti-jobs.

Author: Rick Perry

I'm just a newsboy who met a President.

Author: David Powers

I was ordained one of the standing High Council in Zion, under the hands of President Joseph Smith.

Author: Orson Pratt

I'm going to be a vice president very much like George Bush was. He proved to be a very effective vice president, perhaps the most effective we've had in a couple of hundred years.

Author: Dan Quayle

Welcome to President Bush, Mrs. Bush, and my fellow astronauts.

Author: Dan Quayle

When I talked to him on the phone yesterday. I called him George rather than Mr. Vice President. But, in public, it's Mr. Vice President, because that is who he is.

Author: Dan Quayle

This President is going to lead us out of this recovery.

Author: Dan Quayle

This election is about who's going to be the next President of the United States!

Author: Dan Quayle

The President is going to benefit from me reporting directly to him when I arrive.

Author: Dan Quayle

I believe that transatlantic relations are very important and that President Bush's visit to Brussels, in a few days, will have a major impact on that.

Author: Jean-Pierre Raffarin

Apparently, the image of our president is as offensive to MTV as it is to me.

Author: Trent Reznor

Mr. President, I believe your real problem is that you have somehow been unable to realize that you have won, not only won, but been re-elected by a tremendous margin.

Author: Elliot Richardson

Ohio claims they are due a president as they haven't had one since Taft. Look at the United States, they have not had one since Lincoln.

Author: Will Rogers

I think it's less risky for the Kerry campaign to embrace former President Clinton than it is to reject him.

Author: Stuart Rothenberg

One of your tasks is to separate the "personal" from the "substantive." The two can become confused, especially if someone rubs the President wrong.

Author: Donald Rumsfeld

Look for what's missing. Many advisors can tell a President how to improve what's proposed or what's gone amiss. Few are able to see what isn't there.

Author: Donald Rumsfeld

When asked for your views, by the press or others, remember that what they really want to know is the President's views.

Author: Donald Rumsfeld

As far as my relationship with President Putin is concerned, it's fine.

Author: Gerhard Schroder

I don't think anybody has that crystal ball but the president.

Author: Jay Sekulow

Sure, it is apparent that presidents are looking at polls, but they are also stepping up on issues. President Clinton stepped up on tobacco. He shaped the polls on the tobacco issue.

Author: Donna Shalala

The last president we had was the smartest guy anyone could remember and he did the dumbest thing anyone has ever seen in the White House so go figure.

Author: Harry Shearer

I think President Clinton was probably the brightest President of the 20th century.

Author: Martin Sheen

I support the president 100 percent - when he's right.

Author: Richard Shelby

When you run for president of the United States, everybody does the same thing in the campaign-they talk about veterans, how much they admire them, how grateful they are.

Author: Mark Shields

I didn't realize the president was such an historian.

Author: Mark Shields

He has to do the heavy lifting and the windows and the wash, and also protect the president.

Author: Alan Simpson

Of the fellows least likely to be president, you'd have to vote Jack No. 1.

Author: George Smathers

If it was something that I really committed myself to, I don't think there's anything that could stop me becoming President of the United States.

Author: Will Smith

I must say I am not pleased to have to arrange the Senate schedule around the availability of Senators who are running for President.

Author: Arlen Specter

Come here immediately and see if you can find the murderer of the President.

Author: Edwin Stanton

The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep.

Author: George Stephanopoulos

The longer the president goes without telling his side of the story, the more unease there will be in the public.

Author: George Stephanopoulos

Yesterday, the president met with a group he calls the coalition of the willing. Or, as the rest of the world calls them, Britain and Spain.

Author: Jon Stewart

I'm Jim Phillips, I have multiple personalities. I'm also a skindiver, a puppeteer, and I was the tenth president of the United States.

Author: Ryan Stiles

The president of the United States and his secretary of state were made honorary Hebrews.

Author: Julius Streicher

Most of the things that need to be said about the President are things he can't say himself.

Author: Robert Teeter

The President had every reason to believe that the text presented to him was sound... These 16 words should never have been included in the text written for the president.

Author: George Tenet

Ten of those Republican incumbents, all of whom voted for the impeachment of President Clinton, are from states that Bill Clinton carried.

Author: Robert Torricelli

The President is always abused. If he isn't, he isn't doing anything.

Author: Harry Truman

If I hadn't been President of the United States, I probably would have ended up a piano player in a bawdy house.

Author: Harry Truman

There were around 1,000 stores when I was made president.

Author: Fred Turner

If I wanna be president, I probably can.

Author: Jesse Ventura

The behaviour of President Bush on 11 September certainly gives rise to not unnatural suspicions.

Author: Gore Vidal

I would never say President Obama doesn't have the capacity to continue to serve because of his statement that there are 56 states.

Author: Gerald Walpin

President Johnson offered the middle of the road.

Author: Lew Wasserman

I'm always happy to have the President visit North Carolina. Unfortunately, the citizens of North Carolina who could be most adversely affected by the President's plan have not been invited to the discussion.

Author: Mel Watt

I can't believe George Bush might be president.

Author: Bradley Whitford

It's pretty hard to say no when a vice president-elect and a president-elect ask you to be part of the national team.

Author: Christine Whitman

We must improve our lives and we will do it together - all of our citizens and myself as president of Ukraine.

Author: Viktor Yanukovych

President Jimmy Carter was a citizen soldier. Ironically, he was considered weak because he didn't kill anybody and he didn't get anyone killed.

Author: Andrew Young

I don't think there is one president that's come down the line that hasn't done something good somewhere.

Author: Neil Young