President Quotes · Page 55

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

— Ted Lieu

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

— Chita Rivera

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

— Mitt Romney

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

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

— Anthony Scaramucci

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

— Malcolm X

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

— Henry A. Kissinger

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

— Shimon Peres

If Congress can move President's Day, Columbus Day and, alas, Martin Luther King's Birthday celebration for the convenience of shoppers, shouldn't they…

— Andrew Young

Nobody suffers the pain of birth or the anguish of loving a child in order for presidents to make wars, for governments…

— Lewis H. Lapham

On the August night in 1933 when General Gerardo Machado, then president of Cuba, flew out of Havana into exile, he took…

— Joan Didion

After two years of fighting, government shutdowns and little to no agreement on anything except welfare reform in 1996, President Clinton was…

— Ari Fleischer

an the president bring out the voters who were so enthusiastic about him in 2008 and seem a little disenchanted now? Can…

— Anna Quindlen

Pundits are saying that President Obama is starting to lose support among his own party. To give you an idea of how…

— Jay Leno

Allegations that President Clinton pardoned Marc Rich partly in return for donations to his presidential library have raised questions about the value…

— Robert Dallek

President Obama and Hillary Clinton have engaged in gross dereliction of duty by surrendering the safety of the American people to open…

— Donald Trump

We are divided between those who think with their heads and those who know with their heart. Consider Harriet Miers. If you…

— Stephen Colbert

If there is an exoneration of Donald Trump and collusion with the Russians to affect the outcome of the election, you think…

— Rush Limbaugh

If every university president said, 'The revenue producing sports: basketball, football - potentially revenue producing at most universities - maybe in a…

— Bob Costas

The very first thing the President [Truman] did was to show me the new Presidential Seal, which he had just redesigned. He…

— Winston Churchill

In one of his final acts in office, President Obama shortened the sentences of 209 prisoners, pardoned 64 individuals .The list included…

— Amy Goodman

I think voters want somebody who understands their problems. You're right that they don't expect the president to fix everything. When he's…

— Gail Collins

If Coolidge were a stock, he'd be a buy. The experts have historically ranked Coolidge in the bottom quartile or bottom half…

— Amity Shlaes

There's a law of physics: For every action there's an equal and opposite reaction. And sometimes that shows up in politics and…

— Al Gore

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

— Pierre Salinger

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

When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; Im beginning to believe it.

— Clarence Darrow

We don't want a president who fails at domestic and foreign policy.

— Pat Robertson

The president can't change the country on his own. But what can he do? He can give an example.

— Volodymyr Zelensky

One of the things that a president needs in the face of genocide is resolve.

— Samantha Power

The new rule of thumb is that 80% of a president's time must be spent in raising funds for their schools.

— James E. Rogers

It's amazing what you can accomplish if you simply refuse to quit.

— Porter Stansberry

I don't want my title to define my character. I don't think, as a president, I will change.

— George Weah

How many presidents, do you think, ever said to another guy: 'I can't believe we're doing this in the White House'?

— Greg Behrendt

You shouldn't have one opinion when you're running and another when you're president.

— Rand Paul

I participated on debating teams and in student government, and served as senior class president.

— Paul D. Boyer

When all Americans are treated as equal, no matter who they are or whom they love, we are all more free.

— Barack Obama

Ah, political physics. Someone wins an election and, poof, they are a candidate for vice president. Ridiculous.

— Mark McKinnon

The Presidents job, is not to wield power himself, but to lead attention away from it.

— Douglas Adams