Presidents Quotes · Page 4

Presidents today spend more time speaking than they do reading or thinking.

— Kathleen Hall Jamieson

But presidents matter. That's one of the biggest lessons I learned being in the White House.

— Sidney Blumenthal

Presidents often disappoint, but first ladies rarely do.

— Kitty Kelley

At the start of first terms, presidents invariably have a measure of goodwill.

— Robert Dallek

We have had plenty of atheist presidents; they just wouldn't admit it.

— Daniel Dennett

It's certainly true that presidents have confidantes who rise above what you would call just staff.

— Jon Lovett

The great presidents are people who watch out for others.

— Tim Kaine

“HARRY S TRUMAN is one of seventeen presidents who don’t have a middle name.”

— David Stabler

Every year since 1990, the Gallup poll has asked Americans to assess all the presidents since John F. Kennedy. And every year,…

— Robert Dallek

“The fact that presidents have done something does not necessarily make it right or constitutional.”

— Chris Edelson

“I sincerely hope that President Barack Obama’s government will be remembered as the peak of deregulated corporate corruption and not the ongoing…

— Steven Magee

I had a policy that you had to recite the presidents of the U.S.A. to me before you could get my signature.

— Bob Backlund

Today we honor all of the great men who have given so much of their lives to lead our country. Hope everyone…

— Anonymous

There have been many Presidents of the United States and the roll will be indefinitely extended. We have had a number of…

— Chauncey Depew

The greatest presidents have been those who demonstrated astute judgment in times of crisis - often despite the advice they were getting.

— Robert Dallek

I have walked into the palaces of kings and queens and into the houses of presidents. And much more.

— Josephine Baker

Presidents seem to fall into two positive categories: they're one of us, or they're heroes. Both McCain and Obama probably see themselves…

— Chuck Todd

“[David] Maraniss sees [Barack] Obama as a man with "a moviegoer's or writer's sensibility, where he is both participating and observing himself…

— Jane Mayer

All information belongs to everybody all the time. It should be available. It should be accessible to the child, to the woman,…

— Maya Angelou

Few American presidents are held in higher esteem than Thomas Jefferson. Though historians have scrutinized every phase of his long public career…

— Robert Dallek

Since 1900, only three other [than Donald Trump ] presidents have won the White House with a smaller percentage of the popular…

— Chuck Todd

I love the Capitol rotunda. It's just so big and so grand, and I love being in the Capitol at night when…

— Kevin Yoder

Great presidents, and even those not so great, never complained about the hands they were dealt. Just the opposite. They assumed they…

— Mark McKinnon

I met five presidents. I had dinner with a president of the United States in the White House. I played golf with…

— Jim Leyland

Which president of the United States of America is on the 100 dollar bill?

— Anonymous

Presidents aren't supposed to spit, at least not obviously.

— Chris Matthews

Occasionally, you see presidents come in and provide a clear change in direction of leadership.

— Jim Cantrell

Presidents hate the press. They hate me most of the time.

— Helen Thomas

Just as crises can provide a test of anyone's character, they do so especially with presidents.

— George T. Conway III

Presidents are nice people. They're nice, fun-loving people who have great jobs.

— Dan Jenkins

Bad presidents don't deserve holidays. They deserve scorn.

— Ben Shapiro

The presidents I served under don't have anything to do with my politics.

— Anonymous

Surveillance changes history. We know this through examples of corrupt presidents like Nixon.

— Mikko Hypponen

Few American presidents have been unhappier or lonelier in office than Woodrow Wilson.

— Jill Lepore

If you look at where presidents come from, they're former governors or senators.

— Eleanor Clift

Presidents Day should be a chance to remember and honor greatness.

— Anonymous

I have worked with Presidents since Eisenhower. We serve together.

— John Dingell

I think all presidents should take the long view of history.

— George W. Bush

Presidents need to be critically studied and analyzed.

— Robert Dallek

Frankly, Christians have not always made good presidents.

— Robert Jeffress