President Quotes · Page 80

I think a lot of presidents learn to be president by being president.

— Dee Dee Myers

Everybody knows that I have tougher ethics rules than any previous President.

— William J. Clinton

He [Calvin Coolidge] is the first president to discover that what the American people want is to be left alone.

— Will Rogers

It wouldn't be right for me to clown around when I'm painting a president.

— Norman Rockwell

President Trump has often crossed the line of what constitutes decent behavior.

— Ted Lieu

Mother loved dance so much that she thought (ballerina) Margot Fonteyn should be the president.

— Chita Rivera

Mothers all want their sons to grow up to be president, but they don't want them to become politicians in the process.

— John F. Kennedy

I would prefer to let the president make the decisions that the president needs to make.

— Anthony Scaramucci

Our priests and presidents, our surgeons and lawyers, our educators and newscasters need worry less about satisfying the demands of their discipline…

— Neil Postman

Pardoning Snowden would be a powerful way for the president to acknowledge that the government did wrong, kept us in the dark,…

— Anthony Romero

If we should tell ourselves the truth, all things being equal, President Jonathan will be re-elected with minimal stress, because of his…

— Orji Uzor Kalu

As President, my father will change the labor laws that were put into place at a time when women were not a…

— Ivanka Trump

I've got God's shoulder to cry on. And I cry a lot. I do a lot of crying in this job. I'll…

— George W. Bush

I had unknowingly passed along false information. And five of the highest-ranking officials in the administration were involved in my doing so:…

— Scott McClellan

I don't want to tell President Obama how to make a speech. He's a much better speech maker than I am. But…

— Jimmy Carter

Government grew under [Ronald] Reagan. He was the strongest opponent of free markets in the post-war history among presidents. But it doesn't…

— Noam Chomsky

"I am appalled at the prospect of using water as a vehicle for drugs. Fluoride is a corrosive poison that will produce…

— Charles Bernhard Heyd

In 2005, before I was president, the state of Bolivia had only $300 million from hydrocarbons. Last year, 2007, the Bolivian state…

— Evo Morales

There's a question of building trust, and I think that President Barack Obama offers trust. Personally, I think he is a transparent…

— Rafael Correa

Schulz told lies in German, and it's unfortunate someone can speak German in this house, but it is our responsibility to stand…

— Uri Orbach

I have no desire to be president of the United States. Zero desire. I don't think that I would be electable. And…

— Glenn Beck

Why did Mother ask you to help me rescue Gelsi?" I asked Leif. "She thought I could assist you in some way.…

— Maria V. Snyder

Once again, the vice president has acknowledged that he dares to follow where Bill Bradley has boldly led. ... The only consistency…

— Anita Dunn

For many people, and particularly in communities of color, the basic bargain of America - that if you work hard and play…

— Anonymous

We expect candor and transparency from the president, from the administration.

— Mitt Romney

No president ever had more power than [Franklin Delano] Roosevelt.

— Malcolm X

It is an act of insanity and national humiliation to have a law prohibiting the President from ordering assassination.

— Henry A. Kissinger

American people simply will not countenance being lied to by their own President.

— Pierre Salinger

The president of Iran should remember that Iran can also be wiped off the map.

— Shimon Peres

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

— Drew Gilpin Faust

We have a president [Barack Obama] that doesn't know what's happening, and when it comes to the military.

— Donald Trump

When you have a gutless Congress a lawless president can do pretty much what he chooses.

— Lyn Nofziger

A few. . . critics are the only people I ever heard use the phrase 'imminent threat.' I didn't, the president didn't.

— Donald Rumsfeld

If I'm president, I guarantee you they [Mexicans] will pay [for the wall], and they will be very, very happy about it.

— Donald Trump

I agree with President Roosevelt, and generations since, that American seniors deserve better than poverty.

— Hank Johnson

In exchange for power, influence, command and a place in history, a president gives up the bulk of his privacy.

— Roger Mudd

I presumed the president was being truthful until a series of events undercut that confidence.

— Bob Graham

President Obama is going to have to run against himself. In tough times, nobody can defeat himself.

— William J. Clinton

You're going to be hearing a lot about one scrappy president.

— Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva

We the people tell the government what to do, it doesn't tell us.

— Ronald Reagan