President Quotes · Page 346

To me there is no difference whether president, beggar, or king.

— Dalai Lama

President Obama's been reaching out to Iran, reaching out to Cuba, reaching out to Latin America. The only place he can't seem…

— Jay Leno

The Senate gathered to say goodbye to Vice President Joe Biden. Biden has been a presence there for more than 40 years.

— Ari Shapiro

I think that the world will continue trying to grapple with the climate problem, no matter who is U.S. president. But I…

— Chris Mooney

A Canadian newspaperman said yesterday that this is the President's "Easter egghead roll on the White House lawn." I want to deny…

— John F. Kennedy

I was born in the U.S., my wife was born in Mexico and emigrated here when she was in college, and my…

— Jeffrey Kluger

As the refugee crisis unfolds across Europe, another is looming in our backyard. The number of children crossing the southwest border unaccompanied…

— Joy-Ann Reid

I’m not the woman president of Harvard, I’m the president of Harvard.

— Drew Gilpin Faust

We hope that diplomacy works before you ever use force. The hardest decision a president makes is ever to use force.

— George W. Bush

When President Jiang Zemin visited India in 1996, the two sides decided that they would jointly build a constructive partnership of cooperation…

— Li Peng

Again and again, Americans have voted for a president to keep them out of a war, only to see the "peace" candidate…

— Howard Zinn

I've done 44 portraits of Obama because he's the 44th president.

— Peter Max

President Obama still places far too much emphasis on relentless testing with standardized exams.

— Jonathan Kozol

No party has a monopoly on wisdom. No democracy works without compromise. But when Governor Romney and his allies in Congress tell…

— Barack Obama

Probably the most useful thing I can do as secretary of state is to assist the president in adapting and renewing the…

— Warren Christopher

The nation should be able to remove by an orderly constitutional process any president with an unyielding commitment to failed policies and…

— Robert Dallek

President-Elect [Donald] Trump has not ruled out seeking a special prosecutor for Hillary Clinton, says he has other priorities.

— George Stephanopoulos

Yes, it seems that as the President (George W. Bush) comes to the end of his two terms, he's finally realized the…

— Jon Stewart

[The People] are the ultimate, guardians of their own liberty.

— Thomas Jefferson

We are a people with no army, no navy, no air force, no arms. It's people, thousands of people, who are feeling,…

— Saeb Erekat

They didn't do this because they have facts, because they have solid proof against me. They did it because the president spoke…

— Augustin Misago

Don't talk to me about what's happened since [Nelson] Mandela! His successor was absolutely hopeless - "no such thing as AIDS" -…

— Bob Hawke

I spent a lot of time with President Mandela supporting his efforts in the peace process in Burundi. The thing that impressed…

— John Prendergast

The only reason the president insists on raising [tax] rates is because he knows it will destroy Republican unity, it will cause…

— Charles Krauthammer

On the human rights side, administration policy has been marked by indifference. When the people of Iran flooded the streets to protest…

— Elliott Abrams