President Quotes · Page 55

What are you supposed to do - stop practicing law whenever one of your friends becomes president?

— Edward Bennett Williams

Better to be ordinary people in a superior country than to be president in a disreputable country

— Khem Veasna

American university presidents are a nervous breed; I have never thought well of them as a class.

— John Kenneth Galbraith

When an illegal vote is cast for president, that illegal vote is also cast for a city councilman.

— Chris Collins

The President of the United States thinks that for the Japanese opium is more dangerous than war.

— Townsend Harris

President Obama deserves credit for building what you call the largest coalition to fight terror.

— Dana Perino

“You are not permitted to suffer what others suffer, you are not permitted to fail or die young.”

— Jaachynma N.E. Agu

I really - as I said, I wanted to be President of the United States. It didn't turn out that way.

— Marco Rubio

President Donald Trump has said, he would be honored to meet Kim Jong-un under the right circumstances. What are those circumstances?

— George Stephanopoulos

Since President Obama assumed office three years ago, federal spending has accelerated at a pace without precedent in recent history.

— Mitt Romney

Apparently President Obama's favorite cocktail is a martini. When asked how he likes it, he said, 'On the beach, in Hawaii, in…

— Jimmy Fallon

I think that the coalition that President [Barack] Obama put together to win twice is a coalition that I can put together…

— Hillary Clinton

I admire President Chavez for his strength to resist the United States. Instead, Bush is waging a war of terrorism against the…

— Cindy Sheehan

We don't have time to wait for President Bush to change his mind. How many breakthroughs have been missed as a result…

— Robert Lanza

It is absolutely right that President Reagan considers SDI and thank goodness people considered nuclear research before the last war.

— Margaret Thatcher

I don't believe, the president doesn't believe, that the high income tax cuts work, period. I don't think the evidence supports that.

— Austan Goolsbee

So you wake up this morning and find you're president of the United States. Pretty cool, no? Helicopters and a 747 at…

— Jeff Greenfield

A good president does with executive power what Pablo Picasso did with paint. He takes bills into new and slightly discomfiting territory.…

— Lyndon B. Johnson

You'll never see the president carry his own luggage, and why? Because even though we know he has luggage, it would reduce…

— Simon Sinek

I won't have a cabinet as a President; I will have a closet. A giant walk-in closet with all styles of advisers,…

— Paris Hilton

Obama's the most thoughtful-sounding president I can remember. He seems to be saying what he wants to say, and that is a…

— Roy Blount, Jr

I'm dreaming of a white president. Just like the ones we've always had. A real live white man. Who knows the score,…

— Randy Newman

Against the odd's, I have persevered, I am the living attestation of the American dream. I am the extolment of this great…

— Don King

The principles that made this nation a great and powerful leader of the world, have not lost their meaning. They never will.…

— Mitt Romney

I refused to conform to an image that a lot of people thought a president's brother should adopt.

— Billy Carter

When the President signs this act, the invisible government by the money power will be legalized.

— Charles Lindbergh

A black man will be elected President of the United States. I'm sorry, that's in the year 10,000.

— Chris Rock

With a black president, I can relax... I can dance in public... I can buy a whole watermelon now.

— Wanda Sykes

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

— Greg Proops

There's a real question at stake now. Is President Obama creating a civil war in our own country?

— Jon Voight

I participated on debating teams and in student government, and served as senior class president.

— Paul D. Boyer

The behaviour of President Bush on 11 September certainly gives rise to not unnatural suspicions.

— Gore Vidal

A President doesn't have a terribly long time to talk to people who are not really on the agenda.

— Erich Leinsdorf

The President has a quick and able mind, though not everybody gives him that, not by a long shot.

— Herman Wouk

President Bush was widely ridiculed for consulting the Reverend Billy Graham before the Gulf war.

— William Bennett

If we took away women's right to vote, we'd never have to worry about another Democrat president.

— Ann Coulter

Well, when you come down to it, I don't see that a reporter could do much to a president, do you?

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

President Johnson had a habit of throwing dollars at a question and the question would disappear.

— Wilbur Mills

The president of the United States actually has to be able to walk and chew gum at the same time.

— John Edwards

I don't believe for a minute anybody allowed people to suffer because they are African Americans.

— Condoleezza Rice