President Quotes · Page 34

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

— Malcolm X

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

— Norman Rockwell

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

— Will Rogers

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

— Chita Rivera

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

— Ted Lieu

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

— Donald Trump

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

In four short years he has turned our country from a prosperous nation at peace into a desperately indebted nation at war.…

— Hunter S. Thompson

Well, what did we buy? Instead of a leaner, smarter government, we bought a bureaucracy that now tells us which light bulbs…

— Michele Bachmann

Sometimes at night, when I leave and ride by the front of the White House and the lights are on, it is…

— Hamilton Jordan

You know, I said in the U.N., I said to President Abbas, "Look, we're in the same city, we're in the same…

— Benjamin Netanyahu

Tomorrow President Obama will host NASCAR racing champion Kevin Harvick at the White House. They both said they look forward to spending…

— Jimmy Fallon

Nothing can now be believed which is seen in a newspaper. Truth itself becomes suspicious by being put into that polluted vehicle.

— Thomas Jefferson

Tear gas, rubber bullets, and I would have arrested all the leaders. Oh, only a disgusting drunkard like ex-President Yahya Khan could…

— Zulfikar Ali Bhutto

President Obama is launching a new $6 billion space policy that will ultimately take astronauts to Mars. Of course, it's $6 billion…

— Jimmy Fallon

The president, who finds so much to complain about in other areas of the world, apparently saw nothing wrong in recognizing a…

— Barry Goldwater

Deficits, as I've often said, aren't caused by too little taxing, they're caused by too much spending. Presidents can't appropriate a dollar…

— Ronald Reagan

The greatest disaster of all was after all the difficulties and loss of life and expenditures, President [Barak] Obama walked away, in…

— Jeff Sessions

During President George W. Bush's two terms, you couldn't drive far without seeing a particular bumper sticker: Dissent is the highest form…

— Monica Crowley

I tend to pair up Benjamin Harrison and Dwight Eisenhower because they're the two presidents I can think of who most preferred…

— Harry S. Truman

“I believe in an America where the separation of church and state is absolute; where no Catholic prelate would tell the President…

— John F. Kennedy

There is some of the paradox of foreign policy polling. So on Iraq and Syria, the President is pretty much doing what…

— Michael Gerson

I'm trying to sum up President Obama's first 11 months in office. He gave billions to Wall Street, cracked down on illegal…

— Jay Leno

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

— Drew Gilpin Faust

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

— Charles Schumer

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

— John Irving

Trump has never been clear and consistent about what he will do as president.

— Robert J. Shiller

The president has borrowed more money to spend to less effect than anybody on the planet.

— Mark Steyn

On several occasions President Kennedy encouraged me to take a lover, an obvious sign he also had some himself.

— Pierre Salinger

President Obama has made maternal health one of the core priorities of U.S. international aid funding.

— Liya Kebede

It seems with every new day, we have a new veto threat from the president.

— Mitch McConnell

I'm not impressed with presidents. I have met a few, but I'm not impressed with them.

— Emeril Lagasse

I would not be the mere President of a Party. I feel bound to administer the government untrammeled by party schemes.

— Zachary Taylor

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

— Sarah Vowell

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

— Hari Kondabolu

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

— Robert Dallek

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

— Ted Nugent

It's a great country, where anybody can grow up to be president . . . except me.

— Barry Goldwater

Donald Trump understood America. He animated America, and now he'll be the president of all Americans.

— Kellyanne Conway