President Quotes · Page 43

It's always valuable for someone running for president... to have as much bipartisan support as possible.

— Robert Dallek

To be President of the United States, sir, is to act as advocate for a blind, venomous, and ungrateful client.

— John Updike

Of course, presidents are always blamed or rewarded for the state of the economy.

— James Surowiecki

Let me tell you the truth: I'm 45 years old. I never thought that I would live to see a black president.

— Coolio

Finally, the president added, 'The American people are idealists, but they also want their leaders to be realistic...'

— Bob Woodward

I have been very interested and intrigued and congratulatory toward President Bush and his paintings.

— Jimmy Carter

“Don't call yourself discouraged anymore;it's no longer your name.”

— Jaachynma N.E. Agu

“was the first president to use the Internal Revenue Service as a weapon against opponents.”

— Norman Moss

I was very concerned that President Bush is still trying to frighten or scare the American people with respect to the condition…

— Paul Sarbanes

Some Democrats say the estimated $60 billion dollar cost of a war with Iraq could be better spent at home. When he…

— Jay Leno

You are apprehensive of monarchy; I, of aristocracy. I would therefore have given more power to the President and less to the…

— John Adams

We appreciate the efforts of the United States, of the president, of the secretary of state, and we are ready to find…

— Yitzhak Rabin

With the NDAA, his failure to close Guantanamo Bay and the ramping use of drones, President Obama looks suspiciously like President Bush,…

— Justin Sane

Trans Am sales went up 70 percent after Smokey and the Bandit, and I was promised a free car every year for…

— Burt Reynolds

Bush has legitimized a huge expansion of the welfare state, liberalizing immigration, and using force for democratization abroad. All the next Democratic…

— Andrew Sullivan

Every four years the naive half who vote are encouraged to believe that if we can elect a really nice man or…

— Gore Vidal

Obama is the new kid with the weird name who people just sense is a little classier than his surroundings. He moved…

— Adam McKay

What if we had a culture that prevented these presidents from being courageous? And I worry now that we have a system…

— Michael Beschloss

What people forget is that the most radical thing about Obama is that he was the first black man in history to…

— Henry Louis Gates

If you can't stay focused enough to focus on what people out there actually care about, their own lives, their healthcare, their…

— Star Jones

What's sort of remarkable is that, especially in the Israel and the Russia cases, you have got a U.S. citizen, Donald Trump,…

— David Brooks

Whilst the last members were signing it Doctr. Franklin looking towards the Presidents chair, at the back of which a rising sun…

— James Madison

Moving forward, the best way is going to be something that is going to be a collective decision, that is made, of…

— Reince Priebus

In terms of President Trump, I really do hope that he does accomplish some of the things he said on the campaign…

— Nina Turner

I sleep each night a little better, a little more confidently, because Lyndon Johnson is my president.

— Jack Valenti

I hoped that, you know, France wouldn't mind about, you know, the wife of their president to having a job.

— Carla Bruni

I don't care at all. I don't know the difference from one president to the next.

— Vince Staples

Running for president is hard. But it's good preparation. Because being president is a lot harder.

— Mark McKinnon

“Be very careful what you recommend to the president because he will do what you say.”

— Robert M. Gates

I will be a president that can share a glass of soju with the public after work.

— Moon Jae-in

Donald Trump has made it clear that certainly over the last few years that President [Barack] Obama was born in Hawaii.

— John Lewis

If you want to see why President Obama is worried this November, watch The Hope and the Change.

— Newt Gingrich

We're breaking protocol here. That's the good thing about being President - I can do whatever I want.

— Barack Obama

If I'm elected president, I am going to keep radical Islamic terrorists the hell out of America.

— Donald Trump

There are limits on what a president can achieve or do, but the expectations are so great.

— Robert Dallek

We've never had a female President in this country, which I find stunning

— Hari Kondabolu

Assassins and presidents invite the same basic question: Just who do you think you are?

— Sarah Vowell

If Barack Obama becomes the president in November again, I will either be dead or in jail by this time next year.

— Ted Nugent

I certainly think Obama is the most hopeful president I've seen in the country since John Kennedy.

— John Irving

When the President starts talking about something, it makes a difference.

— Charles Schumer