Presidency Quotes · Page 9

For Democrats, anything less than 15 net pickups will be a disappointing outcome [in presidency race].

— Mara Liasson

I didn't need to [run for presidency], but it's about you. It's about bringing our country, making our country great again.

— Donald Trump

The institution of the presidency was profoundly affected by Watergate.

— Robert Dallek

PRESIDENCY, n. The greased pig in the field game of American politics.

— Ambrose Bierce

More than Nixon or any other 20th-century president, Clinton has devoted his life to winning and keeping the presidency.

— Michael Beschloss

Regan and George W Bush put the United States in more debt than all the other presidents combined.

— Anonymous

There clearly was an Obama administration no-holds-barred attempt to clear the path to the presidency for Hillary Clinton.

— Tom Fitton

The job is nothing but a twenty-ring circus-with a whole lot of bad actors.

— Herbert Hoover

Trump's equivocation on Charlottesville can be seen as a microcosm of the various ways Trump has been a stain on the presidency.

— Jessica Tarlov

It was as simple as this: The Kennedys had a feeling of being heightened and it rubbed off on the people who…

— Charles Spalding

I teach at USC, and it's obvious to anyone who teaches college students that they don't cover much modern history and certainly…

— Robert Scheer

We need people to fight back. So many people are depressed, and they've become preoccupied with the negatives of this [Donald Trump]…

— Nina Turner

I learned running the government for the Presidency, which I always thought was difficult, is even more difficult than I thought.

— Lloyd Cutler

Well, my constituents are happy that the Republican Party has finally gotten off its duff, seeing that we do control the House…

— Dana Rohrabacher

In golf, you keep your head down and follow through. In the vice presidency, you keep your head up and follow through.…

— Dan Quayle

I think it [presidency of Dwight Eisenhower] came too late and I think that he is not on the wavelength of this…

— Malcolm Muggeridge

I am not surprised that the president of the United States called this a phony scandal. I'm not surprised Secretary Clinton asked,…

— Trey Gowdy

The general consensus among historians, among the ones who can handle the fact that 'Lincoln' is, in fact, historical fiction, is that…

— Tony Kushner

The rise of the presidency began with the Louisiana Purchase, which in 1803 doubled the land mass of the United States. History…

— Noah Feldman

I think history is continuous. It doesn't begin or end on Pearl Harbor Day or the day Lyndon Johnson withdraws from the…

— Richard Holbrooke

That distinctive presidential conduct is now gone forever, banished to the snows of yesteryear by Barack Obama. From the beginning of his…

— John Podhoretz

The 1994 elections that brought Newt Gingrich to power in the House decisively shaped the remaining years of Bill Clinton's presidency, pushing…

— Noah Feldman

Hip-hop is contributing to American society's misogyny and racism, hyper-sexuality anti-Black representations. Hip-Hop isn't setting the standard for misogyny. No one reduces…

— Bakari Kitwana

The Obama presidency has seen the U.S. military's elite tactical forces increasingly used in an attempt to achieve strategic goals. But with…

— Nick Turse

Pena Nieto is a product of the two television networks that groomed him for power and then propelled him to the presidency.

— Denise Dresser

George W. Bush did an incredible job in the presidency, defending us from freedom.

— Rick Perry

You cannot denude the presidency of the substance and power of its office. It can't be done.

— Benjamin Wittes

What this [presidency] campaign is about this bringing millions of people jobs in this country.

— Bernie Sanders

Donald Trump you're never going to be president of the United States by insulting your way to the presidency.

— Carly Fiorina

“A librarian for president is exactly what this country needs.”

— Richard Castle

This is a core principle of my presidency - if you threaten America, you will find no safe haven.

— Barack Obama

I'll always respect that institution of the presidency, and I'll respect President Trump.

— Shannon Sharpe

Trying to make the presidency work these days is like trying to sew buttons on a custard pie.

— James David Barber

My hope is that that person will come forward that can win the presidency that we can all get behind.

— Rick Perry

In my lifetime, Mitt Romney is the most qualified leader I've ever seen run for the presidency of the United States.

— Jack Welch

Trump says that if he's elected, he won't let the presidency interfere with the Miss Universe pageant.

— David Letterman

I think I'm the only president other than John Kennedy who had both parents alive during the presidency.

— George W. Bush

There is no office now closed to a Jew, including the presidency.

— Jacob K. Javits

Don't any of you realize there's only one life between that madman and the Presidency?

— Mark Hanna

The silver lining of the Trump presidency is it is an era of activism, and one where women really want to be…

— Kirsten Gillibrand