Presidents Quotes

The people don't elect U.S. presidents, God does.

— Sarah Palin

“Good to see you too, Otto." -Sydney Rose”

— Anonymous

“Desperate people are dangerous people.”

— Bob Ritter

Presidents are selected, not elected.

— Anonymous

All presidents get frustrated with Congress.

— Marco Rubio

“Hello fake Everett children.”

— Monet Polny

Sitting presidents are very tough to beat.

— Christopher Michael Cillizza

“The people who influence our presidents matter.”

— Paul Kengor

“Presidents are not elected anymore; they are hired.”

— Michel Templet

Presidents come and go. History comes and goes, but principles endure.

— Ronald Reagan

Success in war underpins the claims to greatness of many presidents.

— Anonymous

We see more and more of our Presidents and know less and less about what they do.

— Bill Moyers

I'm of the minority opinion that presidents should be given more power for less time.

— Steven Soderbergh

All of the American presidents, certainly all of the notable ones, have been pretty original.

— Michael J. Knowles

Presidents can be judged by the company they choose to keep.

— Nina Easton

I've been privileged to meet presidents and sing at inaugurations and other political events.

— BeBe Winans

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

Memo to future presidents: Never stake your entire survival on the painful passing of a bad bill. Never take the country down…

— Peggy Noonan

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've never been a fan of presidents who place blame on their predecessors or who accept credit for events that couldn't have…

— Kathleen Parker

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

— Robert Dallek

“If we were rational enough to judge what we are fed based on what we are fed, those in the business of…

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Great presidents, and even those not so great, never complained about the hands they were dealt. Just the opposite. They assumed they…

— Mark McKinnon

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

— Jim Leyland

True, most Americans give lip service to the proposition that even the most exalted among us have their flaws, but we are…

— Robert Dallek

The Presidency is not merely an administrative office. Thats the least of it. It is more than an engineering job, efficient or…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

Three times a year, there's Strategicon convention, and I go for the board games. It happens Presidents Day, Labor Day, and Memorial…

— Rich Sommer

As an economist specializing in the global economy, international trade and debt, I have spent most of my career helping others make…

— Noreena Hertz

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

During my seven-year contract with RKO, there were seven different studio presidents, from David O. Selznick to Charles W. Koerner. You literally…

— Ginger Rogers

“Bill Clinton was lucky in many ways; but when it came to former presidents, he won the lottery. When he was elected…

— Nancy Gibbs

“(The Mona Lisa), that really is the ugliest portrait I’ve seen, the only thing that supposedly makes it famous is the mystery…

— E.A. Bucchianeri

“The science of government it is my duty to study, more than all other sciences; the arts of legislation and administration and…

— John Adams

“For myself the delay may be compared with a reprieve; for in confidence I assure you, with the world it would obtain…

— George Washington

“Certainly there were obvious differences in policies between the various leaders, and an America run by a Bush, an Obama or a…

— James Morcan

If you go back and you look at the presidency over the course of history, presidents tend to do what they campaigned…

— Evan Osnos

“During the 1992 election I concluded as early as my first visit to New Hampshire that Bill Clinton was hateful in his…

— Christopher Hitchens

“When was the last time an American president found it worth his while to write a speech on the importance of art…

— Viet Thanh Nguyen