President Quotes · Page 50

He [Calvin Coolidge] is the first president to discover that what the American people want is to be left alone.

— Will Rogers

It wouldn't be right for me to clown around when I'm painting a president.

— Norman Rockwell

Mother loved dance so much that she thought (ballerina) Margot Fonteyn should be the president.

— Chita Rivera

President Trump has often crossed the line of what constitutes decent behavior.

— Ted Lieu

We expect candor and transparency from the president, from the administration.

— Mitt Romney

I would prefer to let the president make the decisions that the president needs to make.

— Anthony Scaramucci

Mothers all want their sons to grow up to be president, but they don't want them to become politicians in the process.

— John F. Kennedy

No president ever had more power than [Franklin Delano] Roosevelt.

— Malcolm X

The president is the cuticle of the nail bed of America: one would think pushing back makes him stronger, yet it turns…

— Warren G. Harding

If our presidents, or potential presidents, don't know this or don't articulate [an America ideal], that's a blown opportunity. The president can…

— Paul Kengor

I know what’s best for the President. I put him in the White house. He does well when he listens to me…

— Florence Harding

Our firm view is that the president has no legal authority, none whatsoever, to commit American troops to war in the Persian…

— George J. Mitchell

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

— Gerald R. Ford

I think it was in the Rose Garden where I issued this brilliant statement: If I had a magic wand -- but…

— George W. Bush

A very considerable body of the German people live in America and propose to fight that Government. Bourke in his great speech…

— Shane Leslie

My job is to try to advance American foreign policy, to try to advance the president's agenda on democracy and human rights.

— Condoleezza Rice

The question is what will Mitt Romney do as president if his policy is simply to be hands off and let the…

— Jennifer Granholm

The country is stronger than the result of any one election. But we shouldn't forget that these are just ordinary people. I…

— Jack Germond

Overall, you know, no state in our country has been hurt more by the eight years of Barack Obama than Wyoming has…

— Liz Cheney

I would have never thought that I would hear myself saying that the president of the United States is afraid of the…

— Ray McGovern

Kennedy was president for only 1,037 days, but during his short tenure, he achieved much. At the Cold War's most dangerous hour,…

— Gretchen Rubin

The opposition tried to brand us as the 'Ground Zero megamosque.' The language was deliberately wordsmithed in order to arouse hostility against…

— Feisal Abdul Rauf

In Latin America, in the past, it was almost impossible to guarantee democracy. There were military dictatorships, and nowadays there are not…

— Evo Morales

We just can't let Donald Trump be the leader of this country. We can line up. We can be part of Hillary…

— Elizabeth Warren

It is an act of insanity and national humiliation to have a law prohibiting the President from ordering assassination.

— Henry A. Kissinger

American people simply will not countenance being lied to by their own President.

— Pierre Salinger

The president of Iran should remember that Iran can also be wiped off the map.

— Shimon Peres

I’m not the woman president of Harvard, I’m the president of Harvard.

— Drew Gilpin Faust

We have a president [Barack Obama] that doesn't know what's happening, and when it comes to the military.

— Donald Trump

The terrorist action of 9/11 gave birth to President Obama's entry to the White House. Not directly, but indirectly.

— Maya Angelou

One of the first lessons a president has to learn is that every word he says weighs a ton.

— Calvin Coolidge

President Bush and his commanders announced early in the conflict that the Conventions applied.

— John Yoo

It's a great experience. If you get a chance to run for president, do it.

— Mitt Romney

There's nobody who's had a resume like [Hillary Clinton] that's run for president.

— Madeleine Albright

If you want to see your plays performed the way you wrote them, become President.

— Vaclav Havel

Conservative voters increasingly understand that the one legacy a president can leave is his judicial appointments.

— Paul Weyrich

Bill Clinton is the greatest president of the 20th century because I played touch football with him.

— Al Franken

I didn't vote for him, but he's my President, and I hope he does a good job.

— John Wayne

The President has a short time to let people know that he is serious about getting spending under control.

— Paul Weyrich

No man should be allowed to be President who does not understand hogs.

— Harry S. Truman