Presidency Quotes · Page 23

Being President is like the man who was tarred and feathered and ridden out of town on a rail... A man in…

— Abraham Lincoln

As to the presidency, the two happiest days of my life were those of my entrance upon the office and my surrender…

— Martin Van Buren

Forty years after the greatest scandal of the American presidency, Elizabeth Drew's account in Washington Journal remains fresh and riveting, instructive and…

— Tom Brokaw

With me it is exceptionally true that the Presidency is no bed of roses.

— James K. Polk

We're getting a wall. We're definitely getting a wall. That's the one thing we know about a Trump presidency.

— Ann Coulter

I'm running [ for presidency] because we need to take our country back.

— Bobby Jindal

I had the great privilege in 2011 and 2012 of learning a lot about what it takes to run for the presidency…

— Rick Perry

I've written a book that hopefully will give people a sense of what [presidency] was like. I hope my friends read it…

— George W. Bush

As important as the presidency is, that's not the only thing to take a look at in determining the racial health of…

— Randall Kennedy

When historians look at the Obama presidency, they're likely to credit him especially for doing the politically unpopular things that were needed…

— David Ignatius

Lyndon B. Johnson thought he'd have the boys home from Vietnam by Christmas - for four Christmases in a row (he never…

— Rick Perlstein

[Voters] are trying to make up their mind on who has a better plan for the economy, whose presidency would more positively…

— Bill Burton

Barack Obama's inspirational whoosh to the presidency in 2008 was unusual. Most campaigns are less exhilarating; indeed, they are downright disappointing -…

— Joe Klein

Again, President Reagan was sort of an amiable presence out at the ranch by the last 6 months of his presidency. He…

— Paul Begala

Not a chance. I don't know what Sarah (Palen)'s doing, (but) I have no desire to be president of the United States,…

— Glenn Beck

Trump continues to diminish the office of the Presidency.

— Deb Haaland

Obama was elected in a flourish of promise that many in the African-American community believed would help not only to symbolize African-American…

— Douglas Wilder

I wrote 'Little Fires Everywhere' and sold the book in 2015, still the Obama years. The possibility of a Trump presidency was…

— Celeste Ng

I think the way the country has changed in part because of the presidency of Barack Obama, I think in part because…

— Killer Mike

Obama is a tyrant the same way FDR was a tyrant. He has a view of presidential power that states: the government…

— David Mamet

A political candidacy built around hope and change and compromise would eventually become a presidency of crisis and confrontation.

— Barack Obama

To be a great president, you have to have a war. All the great presidents have had their wars.

— Adm James Crowe

What does the Right have to show for eight years of a Republican presidency? I supported George W. Bush in 2000 because…

— John Derbyshire

They [the Democrat Party] owed her everything. Hillary Clinton preserved the Democrat Party. She preserved the Bill Clinton career, meaning she preserved…

— Rush Limbaugh

Reinvention means you're kind of re-creating somebody. Well, I'm the same person, in terms of values. My priorities - my faith, my…

— George W. Bush