Presidency Quotes · Page 9

In my lifetime, Mitt Romney is the most qualified leader I've ever seen run for the presidency of the United States.

— Jack Welch

My hope is that that person will come forward that can win the presidency that we can all get behind.

— Rick Perry

I'll always respect that institution of the presidency, and I'll respect President Trump.

— Shannon Sharpe

Trying to make the presidency work these days is like trying to sew buttons on a custard pie.

— James David Barber

The silver lining of the Trump presidency is it is an era of activism, and one where women really want to be…

— Kirsten Gillibrand

The GOP cannot expect to win the presidency in the future by simply relying on running up big numbers with white voters.

— Mark McKinnon

Trump says that if he's elected, he won't let the presidency interfere with the Miss Universe pageant.

— David Letterman

I think I'm the only president other than John Kennedy who had both parents alive during the presidency.

— George W. Bush

To rid the world of Osama bin Laden, Anwar al-Awlaki and Moammar Qaddafi within six months: if Obama were a Republican, he'd…

— Andrew Sullivan

There has been a cultural shift. It is difficult to measure all that right now, but Chilean women have seen my presidency…

— Michelle Bachelet

“To vastly improve your country and truly make it great again, start by choosing a better leader. Do not let the media…

— Suzy Kassem

This is how the great post-partisan, post-racial, New Politics presidency ends - not with a bang, not with a whimper, but with…

— Charles Krauthammer

Zeroes are important. A million seconds ago was last week. A billion seconds ago, Richard Nixon resigned the presidency. A trillion seconds…

— Denis Hayes

Gary Johnson's refusal or inability to name a single foreign leader, current or former, whom he admired, showed that he is not…

— Christine Todd Whitman

I'm not convinced that Nixon would have survived in office if he'd burned the tapes, but I do believe he would have…

— Thomas Mallon

I don't buy the argument that there can't be a successful independent candidacy for the presidency of the United States. People who…

— Mark McKinnon

Hip-hop is contributing to American society's misogyny and racism, hyper-sexuality anti-Black representations. Hip-Hop isn't setting the standard for misogyny. No one reduces…

— Bakari Kitwana

The Obama presidency has seen the U.S. military's elite tactical forces increasingly used in an attempt to achieve strategic goals. But with…

— Nick Turse

The whole framework of the presidency is getting out of hand. It's come to the point where you almost can't run unless…

— Hunter S. Thompson

The general consensus among historians, among the ones who can handle the fact that 'Lincoln' is, in fact, historical fiction, is that…

— Tony Kushner

I am not surprised that the president of the United States called this a phony scandal. I'm not surprised Secretary Clinton asked,…

— Trey Gowdy

I think history is continuous. It doesn't begin or end on Pearl Harbor Day or the day Lyndon Johnson withdraws from the…

— Richard Holbrooke

The rise of the presidency began with the Louisiana Purchase, which in 1803 doubled the land mass of the United States. History…

— Noah Feldman

That distinctive presidential conduct is now gone forever, banished to the snows of yesteryear by Barack Obama. From the beginning of his…

— John Podhoretz

There is no office now closed to a Jew, including the presidency.

— Jacob K. Javits

Don't any of you realize there's only one life between that madman and the Presidency?

— Mark Hanna

Jeb Bush may run for President. Bush presidencies are like 'Caddyshack' movies. They should have stopped with one.

— David Letterman

Tom Brady should be a heartbeat away from the presidency, and that heartbeat should be mine.

— Vermin Supreme

In my presidency I've been guided by what's right, not what's popular.

— Anonymous

Prayer steadies one when he is walking in slippery places - even if things asked for are not given.

— Benjamin Harrison

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

— Ann Coulter

Being out of the mainstream is entirely consistent with the way Donald Trump is approaching his presidency.

— Tom Gjelten

A Clinton presidency is an Obama third term. And it's very difficult for them to get away from it.

— Paul Ryan

The presidency of Barack Obama is a case study in stupid does.

— Bret Stephens

Hillary Clinton may be the most corrupt person ever to seek the presidency of the United States.

— Donald Trump

I thought it completely absurd to mention my name in the same breath as the presidency.

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

Imagine Texas as a blue state: how hard it would be to carry the presidency or gain control of the Senate.

— Jeb Bush

Anything may be possible in America, but a Palin presidency is virtually implausible.

— Ron Fournier

PRESIDENCY, n. The greased pig in the field game of American politics.

— Ambrose Bierce

The institution of the presidency was profoundly affected by Watergate.

— Robert Dallek