President Quotes · Page 36

In going too far, they [presidents] have taken away the individual rights of American citizens.

— Dick Durbin

Barack Obama is probably the coolest president this country will ever have.

— Bret Stephens

For me, I want a president who is more than a symbol, someone who has ideas that I align with.

— Emily Ratajkowski

[Congress] can just make [Mitt] Romney president. And we'd be like, "All right, fine."

— Jen Kirkman

I would sit and talk to any president who wishes to talk to me, but I'm not anxious to rule it in.

— Colin Powell

In my lifetime, we have lost a President, a Civil Rights leader and a Presidential candidate - all to gun violence.

— Marianne Williamson

I will be a president of all Bulgarians, irrespective of their ethnicity, religion or political affiliations.

— Georgi Parvanov

Well, Hale was one of the first people who suggested to President Johnson that there should be a commission.

— Lindy Boggs

The relationship between me and President Mandela right at the beginning was not a very well-established relationship. It was based on two…

— F. W. de Klerk

I am afraid I am a constant disappointment to my party. The fact of the matter is, the longer I am President…

— William Howard Taft

[I find it] impossible [to imagine] that a nation which is grounded in Judaeo-Christian principles would somehow select someone [for President] who…

— John McCain

President Obama has basically avoided or not done any attempt to intervene in any positive way in the housing market. I think…

— Glenn Hubbard

It's not that unusual for presidents to take strong positions on cases decided by the court. But you know, Lesley, that's why…

— Alex Kozinski

This, in my view, is the highest responsibility of the President of the United States, which is to maintain the safety of…

— Mitt Romney

President Bush said that our kids must be taught how to read. He said if his aides never learned to read, they'd…

— Jay Leno

The president's [Donald Trump] approval rating is much higher than the media's approval rating and Congress' approval rating, for that matter.

— Kellyanne Conway

For [the corporate media president election campaign ] is a war, and for them nothing at all is out of bounds. This…

— Donald Trump

No president in history has been more vilified or was more vilivied during the time he was President than Lincoln. Those who…

— Richard M. Nixon

(The mainstream media) are so vested in our first black president not being a failure that it's going to be amazing to…

— Joe Walsh

I don't know anything about press conferences." "Oh, just Google it. I'm sure someone's written an article on holding a successful one.…

— Cory Doctorow

I believe that women and girls today have to partner in a powerful way with men - with their fathers, with their…

— Joan Halifax

I commended Angela [Merkel] for her leadership along with President Hollande in working to resolve the conflict in Ukraine. We continued to…

— Barack Obama

Cuts to defense budgets are already underway...there is now a lot of emphasis starting with the President that we have to build…

— James F. Hoge Jr

A friend of mine said that when Barack Obama was running for president, there was a whole generation of white kids who…

— George C. Wolfe

All special assistants to the president are typically political appointees of the first year of the new president.

— Roger Cressey

It's going to be very difficult. I don't see the president-elect [Donald Trump] as a legitimate president.

— John Lewis

My father was not a failure. After all, he was the father of a president of the United States.

— Harry S Truman

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

— Thomas Jefferson

The president doesn't get a line-item veto, so all the budgetary approps stuff is with Congress.

— Tim Kaine

This is exactly why the Electoral College is set up the way it is, so that one state would not elect the…

— Rush Limbaugh

There's never a dearth of reasons to shoot at the President.

— Don DeLillo

Jobs are created in the private sector. Not by the president or the government unless they're government jobs.

— Jesse Ventura

Inexperience because of (President Barack) Obama's inexperience.Look that would be one of the challenges.

— John McCain

The worst day of my political life was when President George W. Bush signed McCain-Feingold into law.

— Mitch McConnell

Books and ideas are the most effective weapons against intolerance and ignorance.

— Anonymous

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

— George W. Bush

“Don't blow off another's candle for it won't make yours shine brighter.”

— Jaachynma N.E. Agu

I've heard the call. I believe God wants me to run for president.

— George W. Bush

President Clinton celebrates the first casual Friday at the white house by wearing leather chaps.

— Greg Proops

President Obama told the Irish people that America will always stand by them, to which Israel laughed.

— Jay Leno