Presidents Quotes · Page 3

But presidents matter. That's one of the biggest lessons I learned being in the White House.

— Sidney Blumenthal

“HARRY S TRUMAN is one of seventeen presidents who don’t have a middle name.”

— David Stabler

Which president of the United States of America is on the 100 dollar bill?

— Anonymous

Presidents hate the press. They hate me most of the time.

— Helen Thomas

Just as crises can provide a test of anyone's character, they do so especially with presidents.

— George T. Conway III

Presidents are nice people. They're nice, fun-loving people who have great jobs.

— Dan Jenkins

Bad presidents don't deserve holidays. They deserve scorn.

— Ben Shapiro

I have worked with Presidents since Eisenhower. We serve together.

— John Dingell

“I sincerely hope that President Barack Obama’s government will be remembered as the peak of deregulated corporate corruption and not the ongoing…

— Steven Magee

The greatest presidents have been those who demonstrated astute judgment in times of crisis - often despite the advice they were getting.

— Robert Dallek

An earthquake strikes Haiti, and care packages from America are among the first to arrive - and not far behind are former…

— Mitt Romney

Every year since 1990, the Gallup poll has asked Americans to assess all the presidents since John F. Kennedy. And every year,…

— Robert Dallek

Presidents quickly realize that while a single act might destroy the world they live in, no one single decision can make life…

— Lyndon B. Johnson

“The fact that presidents have done something does not necessarily make it right or constitutional.”

— Chris Edelson

America's presidents tend to die young. Maybe it is in the nature of the men who reach such heights, or of the…

— Nancy Gibbs

Political ignorance helps explain Americans' perpetual disappointment with politicians generally, and presidents especially, to whom voters unrealistically attribute abilities to control events.

— George Will

But no matter how many times we re-rank the presidents, in another 200 years, the top presidents will still be Washington and…

— Chuck Klosterman

“[David] Maraniss sees [Barack] Obama as a man with "a moviegoer's or writer's sensibility, where he is both participating and observing himself…

— Jane Mayer

Few American presidents are held in higher esteem than Thomas Jefferson. Though historians have scrutinized every phase of his long public career…

— Robert Dallek

Since 1900, only three other [than Donald Trump ] presidents have won the White House with a smaller percentage of the popular…

— Chuck Todd

In any crass political calculation, drilling for oil will always win more votes than putting a price on carbon. But if I…

— Jeff Goodell

I love the Capitol rotunda. It's just so big and so grand, and I love being in the Capitol at night when…

— Kevin Yoder

I met five presidents. I had dinner with a president of the United States in the White House. I played golf with…

— Jim Leyland

Since the enactment of the War Powers Act in 1973, which I supported then and support now, Congress has been reluctant to…

— Charles B. Rangel

Surveillance changes history. We know this through examples of corrupt presidents like Nixon.

— Mikko Hypponen

Few American presidents have been unhappier or lonelier in office than Woodrow Wilson.

— Jill Lepore

Presidents Day should be a chance to remember and honor greatness.

— Anonymous

All presidents rail against the press. It goes with the turf.

— Helen Thomas

I think all presidents should take the long view of history.

— George W. Bush

Presidents need to be critically studied and analyzed.

— Robert Dallek

Presidents tend to tinker, you know, and mess everything up.

— Pat Paulsen

“That depends on what your definition of 'is' is.”

— Bill Clinton

Our great presidents have been stewards, men who broadly identified with the whole of America.

— Shelby Steele

When you look at the development of the American presidency, you see that the presidents who have had the greatest impact are…

— H. W. Brands

In my opinion governors don't make the best presidents. That's my opinion and it's because they don't have the foreign policy experience…

— Kay Bailey Hutchison

The Cold War is over. The kind of authority that the presidents asserted during the Cold War has now been diminished.

— Robert Dallek

Successive American presidents have turned a blind eye to piles of evidence that Saudi money is being used to foment holy war…

— Stephen Kinzer

The deficit only became a big problem in the Reagan-Bush years. For 12 years, Republican presidents talked about balancing the budget, but…

— Dick Gephardt

I wasn't any good at sports, but I could name all the presidents by the time I was six. I've always been…

— John Fugelsang

Whenever I came up against presidents of other companies, I was always smarter, because I was from the streets.

— Berry Gordy