Presidency Quotes · Page 5

“Selling the presidency like cereal! How can you talk seriously about issues with half-minute spots?”

— Adlai Stevenson

Trump's inability to control his own emotions is standing between himself and the presidency.

— Chuck Todd

I ran [for presidency] because I knew what trouble our country was in.

— Donald Trump

You win the presidency by connecting with the American people's gut insecurities and aspirations. You win with a concept.

— Thomas Friedman

The presidency has become a series of visuals I don't know how a woman fits into.

— Patricia Schroeder

As everyone knows, I have never been a fan of George Bush's presidency.

— Tom Tancredo

The politicization of the presidency would pose a real threat to the institution and its function.

— Reuven Rivlin

George H. W. Bush. He's been a classy guy in his post-presidency.

— George W. Bush

Lyndon Johnson who was the president who was executing that war, announced in the spring of 1968 that he would not seek…

— Bill Ayers

I seek the presidency because I believe deeply in the American promise and can no longer accept the diminishing of that promise.

— George McGovern

Arguably there's no school for any high position of leadership. That said, Theodore Roosevelt was remarkably well prepared for the presidency. He…

— James M Strock

The standard rumor at the time was that Rumsfeld, as chief of staff, had persuaded President Ford to appoint George H.W. Bush…

— Anonymous

I really want Congress to do its job, the constitutional power that they have to halt an imperial presidency, to halt this…

— Sarah Palin

I think it would be a threat [Donald's Trump presidency] to the conduct of our foreign policy and our position in the…

— William Weld

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

We don't think well of our presidents when they are serving. Even Kennedy, with such a short presidency, was beginning to lose…

— Charlton Heston

While there are several challenges, I do believe that over the transition and into the Trump presidency, the media as a whole…

— Erik Wemple

“Will this long presidency of George W. Bush ever be over? Living through it is starting to seem like some ghastly, upsetting…

— Christopher Durang

I am extremely ecstatic about the presidency of Barack Obama. I think he is paving the way for young African-American men like…

— Texas Battle

Starting in 1994, with the Republican election of Congress, I think [Rush] Limbaugh made a difference in electing the Republican majority. In…

— Tony Blankley

Nixon identified himself as a crisis-laden man. He'd reach levels of victory and then he'd plunge into defeat. He was vice president,…

— Oliver Stone

I was pretty realistic to people about what we could get done, and the situation we were in, and trying to tamp…

— Barack Obama

In the past, the U.S. has shown its capacity to reinvent its gifts for leadership. During the 1970s, in the aftermath of…

— Paul Johnson

We are reaching a tipping where the pace of settlements, during the course of my presidency has gotten so substantial that it's…

— Barack Obama

The last few months of George Bush's presidency brought Obama and nobody can be happy about that.

— Donald Trump

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

— James K. Polk

Richard Nixon built his presidency on his notorious 'Southern strategy.'

— Steve Kornacki

The presidency is not a collegial body... He will surround himself with people who share his vision.

— Luis Videgaray Caso

I feel like Bush presidencies are like "Godfather" films. You should stop at two.

— David Letterman

In 2004, I joined my father, John Kerry, on the trail in his bid for the United States presidency.

— Alexandra Kerry

Don't begin to think you're the President. You're not. The Constitution provides for only one.

— Donald Rumsfeld

The whole question of 'What is truth?' seemed to be the theme of Trump's presidency.

— David Thewlis

I certainly don't think that it's the job of any journalist to make the presidency work.

— Jake Tapper

I never wanted to get out of a place as much as I did to get out of the presidency.

— Ulysses S. Grant

Bush's presidency is revisionism-proof. We're going to be recovering from it for the rest of our lives.

— Michael Moore

The presidency is not an office job. If I only sit in the office in Dar es Salaam I'm not running the…

— Jakaya Kikwete

One of the things I think I can bring to the presidency is to make government and public service cool again.

— Barack Obama

Technology has had more of an impact on the presidency and how the presidency communicates than anything.

— Mark McKinnon

Race has been a big issue in this [presidency] campaign [2016].

— Lester Holt

The presidency has a funny way of making a person feel the need to pray.

— Barack Obama