President Quotes

The president's grand experiment in trickle-down government has held back rather than sped economic recovery. He seems to sincerely believe we can build a middle class out of government jobs paid for with borrowed dollars.

President Bush has said that the economy is growing, that there are jobs out there. But you know, it's a long commute to China to get those jobs.

This president failed so miserably in diplomacy that we are now forced to war.

I've been amazed at the degree to which Democrats, in particular, have expressed their enthusiasm for the president's manner with which he handled this budget.

Mitt Romney, happens to have the exact skill set that the next president's going to require.

I think anybody who wants to be president has to be a politician, but I would like to find somebody who's coming from a loving place instead of a political place.

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

I didn't view myself as attacking the boss. I viewed my boss at ESPN as the publisher and president of ESPN.

President Obama is the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people.

I don't think Bush was legitimately elected President.

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

I was eleventh-grade class president. That was the first elective office I held until I came into Congress.

The president of the United States actually has to be able to walk and chew gum at the same time.

The facts are the vice president's company that he was CEO of, that did business with sworn enemies of the United States, paid millions of dollars in fines for providing false financial information, it's under investigation for bribing foreign officials.

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

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.

Any man who wants to be president is either an egomaniac or crazy.

As far as the men who are running for president are concerned, they aren't even people I would date.

If I were president of the United States, I would include Moslems in my presidency.

What President Bush did in his doctrine of preemptive strike and in his war in Afghanistan and in Iraq was to turn even his allies in Europe negatively toward America.

The education cuts in the President's budget are both irresponsible and morally unjustifiable.

But the point you need to know is that no president at war cut taxes $1.5 trillion, like Bush did.

It is not patriotic to decide to destroy a new president who was duly elected by an overwhelming margin. It is un-patriotic to resolve to destroy that presidency.

President Barack Obama has it right - there is a lot to change about Washington. The problem is, not much will get changed unless we confront the runaway filibuster in the U.S. Senate.

President Obama's biggest weakness is weakness.

For one thing, one of the wonderful things that we now have is instead of the huge budget surpluses that President Clinton left us with, we now have these huge deficits that we're going to be facing into the future.

I readily admit I was not an expert on foreign policy but I was knowledgeable and I didn't need a man who was the Vice President of the United States and my opponent turning around and putting me down.

President Reagan's one-liners were terrific.

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

Most Americans will be horrified that President Obama is compromising our deterrent to chemical and biological attacks on this country. Our allies will also be troubled by his aspiration to eliminate U.S. tactical nuclear weapons in Europe.

One of the most important post-9/11 efforts made to counter terrorism and the spread of weapons of mass destruction is President Bush's Proliferation Security Initiative (PSI).

To his lasting credit, President Reagan never wavered. He recognized the strategic importance of staying the course, both in terms of denying Moscow the military hegemony it sought in Western Europe and of restoring the will, cohesiveness, and security of the NATO alliance, so badly frayed during the turbulent 1970s.

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

Even if you only counted the votes that actually made it through the hoops in order to be cast, the president was really Al Gore.

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

All my stories were usually titled, 'White House Says,' 'President Bush Wants,' and I relied on transcripts from the briefings. I relied on press releases that were sent to the press for the purpose of accurately portraying what the White House believed or wanted.

The President is the last person in the world to know what the people really want and think.

It is the function of the President, representing the executive principle, to execute the laws.

The head of the CIA, it seems to me, would think long and hard before he admitted that former employees of his had been involved in the murder of the President of the United States-even if they weren't acting on behalf of the Agency when they did it.

In the name of the United States and President Bush, I want to thank the Mexican people, President Fox and his government for their friendship.

I don't think any president that I worked with has ever said 'pretty please.'

No president is well-served by groupthink or by everybody singing from the same sheet of music they think he's on.

Being president of a major public university is the most political nonpolitical office around.

I think JR would make a better President than the one we have now.

The president of General Motors was in a foul humor.

President Obama is riding the wrong horse on energy.

The danger with running for president is sooner or later some sound bite is going hit.

The President has only 190 million bosses. The Vice President has 190 million and one.

The President is the people's lobbyist.

Did I say that the President's entire job is image management? Of course not.

The standard rumor at the time was that Rumsfeld, as chief of staff, had persuaded President Ford to appoint George H.W. Bush as director of Central Intelligence, assuming that that got rid of a potential competitor for the presidency.

I am ready and prepared to work with the President, but I will not be a rubber stamp for any president.

I do not personally agree with some of the positions that Mr. Gonzales has advocated, but that should come as no surprise, because I do not agree with many of the proposals made by the man who nominated him, President Bush.

President Bush's proposal to focus our resources on sending humans to Mars is intriguing, but it is not the most compelling reason that Americans ought to focus our interest on the Red Planet.

Let there be no reservation or doubt that I believe the Senate should vote on each and every judicial appointment made by the President of the United States and that no rule or procedure should ever stop the Senate from exercising its constitutional responsibility.

The President and I agree that Social Security needs to be preserved so that we can ensure that all Americans receive the retirement benefits they've been promised. But we disagree as to how best to fix the system.

The Bush administration is the most diverse in history because the president fills jobs on the basis of a person's capabilities and qualifications, not on the color of his or her skin.

I would sincerely regret, and which never shall happen whilst I am in office, a military guard around the President.

Obama is for same-sex marriage. If the president is saying that, then who am I to go the other way?

The president's decision yesterday to set into motion the development of the hydrogen bomb... has placed us on the knife-edge of history.

Ronald Reagan was older than I was when he ran for president.

The American people on the ground need a clearer, stronger, Lyndon B. Johnson-type voice from their president.

The relationship between the prophet and the President, the priest and the President, is a sacred one.

The American people on the ground need a clearer, stronger, Lyndon B. Johnson-type voice from their president. Obama has that voice. It has to be used.

Look at what President Kennedy managed to achieve during the Cuban missile crisis. If Bush had been president in 1962, do you think he would have avoided a nuclear war?

I believe President Bush is one of the most dangerous leaders in the world. He is not in search of peaceful and diplomatic solutions.

President Bush should be indicted and should be driven out of office. He should be sent back home in Texas.

Reagan is held up to us as an example of never raising taxes. Correction: Reagan raised taxes six of his eight years as president. Why? He was a pragmatist, not doctrinaire. He saw problems emerging, and when his policies faltered he changed his views. Flexibility, not rigidity.

Given the daunting challenges that we face, it's important that president elect Obama is prepared to really take power and begin to rule day one.

President Obama celebrates diversity, yet instinctively seeks common ground and builds on that common ground to make progress.

Instead of sitting on the sidelines, President Obama has made it clear that the US is ready to lead a global effort to combat climate change.

People are struggling. They're trying to make ends meet, and they're looking for Washington to deliver for them. And they don't feel that that's been happening as quickly as it should. We share that frustration. There's no one more frustrated than President Obama.

Looking ahead, I can see more and more instances where I will disagree with the president on very fundamental issues. The largest, for me, is education.

President Reagan always gave the credit to the American people and American ideals. He treated his job as a valuable temporary loan from the American people, a loan that should be respected and returned with dutiful appreciation.

Often dismissed or underestimated by political opponents, President Reagan had the most valuable weapon in the political arsenal: a bond with the people.