President Quotes · Page 39

The terrorist action of 9/11 gave birth to President Obama's entry to the White House. Not directly, but indirectly.

— Maya Angelou

The president of the United States let the consulate in Libya become a death trap.

— Lindsey Graham

If there's a major foreign policy event, the President gets on TV, the Congress doesn't.

— Nate Silver

You know, for one glorious half hour, I was the mother of the president-elect.

— Barbara Bush

I would love to be able to serve in office in some capacity with Romney as president.

— Jim Talent

The first thing I'd do as President is sign the Freedom of Choice Act.

— Barack Obama

My guiding principle as president has been to try to do the right thing even when it's not politically convenient.

— Barack Obama

The progress of evolution from President Washington to President Grant was alone evidence to upset Darwin.

— Henry Adams

The President has no real plan to address the fiscal challenges arising from the retirement of the baby boom generation, let alone…

— Jack Reed

Donald Trump is having foreign leaders spend their money and our government spend their money on his properties. This is not the…

— Robby Mook

I am honored to have served. I'm glad I ran. It is a huge honor to be able to be a two-term…

— George W. Bush

Every single policy Hillary Clinton espouses and every single policy of President [Barack] Obama has been demonstrably bad for women!

— Carly Fiorina

Turkey wants a policy of engagement exactly like President Obama's new approach. Policy of engagement, less confrontation, less tense attitude, especially in…

— Ahmet Davutoglu

I'm always happy to have the President visit North Carolina. Unfortunately, the citizens of North Carolina who could be most adversely affected…

— Mel Watt

Somebody was asking me the other day - President Bush is now talking about freedom for the Arab world. I say, well,…

— Lakhdar Brahimi

Working for President Nixon was the most extraordinary professional experience of my life. He was endlessly fascinating: brilliant, visionary, kind, generous, warm,…

— Monica Crowley

I love it when the left and when the president say, 'Don't try to impose your values on us, you folks who…

— Rick Santorum

She is a 13-year-old girl who shares Amanda's name, and politely explained that she could not give up the website. Why? Because…

— Eva Longoria

The fighter (like the writer) must stand alone. If he loses he cannot call an executive conference and throw off on a…

— A. J. Liebling

A certain kind of rich man afflicted with the symptoms of moral dandyism sooner or later comes to the conclusion that it…

— Lewis H. Lapham

President Obama has a good sense not just of the economic requisites for financial crisis firefighting but also how you build political…

— Lael Brainard

Americans will gladly support their president when he attacks nations that sponsor or harbor terrorists. We will even back him in a…

— Dick Morris

University presidents should be loud and forceful in defending the university as a social good, essential to the democratic culture and economy…

— Henry Giroux

I think the Obama administration, whether it's in his first term or second term, is totally committed to the search for peace…

— Michael Oren

Presidents don't have power. Their job is to draw attention away from it.

— Douglas Adams

A president is supposed to calm the American people with sober decision-making in the national interest.

— Monica Crowley

The President is always abused. If he isn't, he isn't doing anything.

— Harry S Truman

A President is impeachable if he attempts to subvert the Constitution.

— James Madison

“President Trump's health care plan is a human rights disaster.”

— Steven Magee

Apparently, the image of our president is as offensive to MTV as it is to me.

— Trent Reznor

There is no one else at all who is fighting ISIS on the ground, except for President al-Assad's army.

— Vladimir Putin

Everybody's talking about the President, we all chipped in for a bag of cement.

— Paul McCartney

We have to confront the very scary fact that the president is a moron. He's really dumb.

— Aaron McGruder

I don't think any president that I worked with has ever said 'pretty please.

— Robert M. Gates

What chance does a five-foot-seven billionaire Jew who's divorced really have of becoming president?

— Michael Bloomberg

Democracy means that anyone can grow up to be president, and anyone who doesn't grow up can be vice president.

— Johnny Carson

President Obama should be championing American prominence, not apologizing for it.

— Kevin Madden

President Obama's made the White House really the people's house. People feel like they're welcome.

— Hillary Clinton

They sell us the President the same way they sell us our clothes and cars.

— Jackson Browne

I think President Obama has done more than he is given credit for.

— Robert Caro