First President Quotes

21 First President quotes by 20 unique authors

Well, you know, I had been a peanut farmer. I had - you know who was the first president - Democratic president I ever met?… — Jimmy Carter
What is most important of this grand experiment, the United States? Not the election of the first president but the election of its second president.… — George Washington
Take the veto. Bush is the first president since James Garfield in 1881 not to veto a single bill. Garfield only had six months in… — Jim Cooper
People complain that our generation has no philosophers. They are wrong. They now sit in another faculty. Their names are Max Planck and Albert Einstein.… — Adolf von Harnack
Obama is hardly the first president to seek rapprochement with our adversaries and reconciliation with our enemies, of course. But his determination to make nice… — Stephen F. Hayes
Modern Democrats aren't the first political party to abuse power - far from it. Obama isn'€™t the first president to abuse executive power - not… — David Harsanyi
Washington's character was rock solid. He came to stand for the new nation and its republican virtues, which was why he became our first President… — Stephen Ambrose
You are the first President to whom the opportunity was ever offered constitutionally to inaugurate such a day. If you fail us now, you may… — Jay Sekulow
First, President Reagan was not enthusiastic. But I built up a relationship with him in other areas and then persuaded him that this was important… — Brian Mulroney
Let me tell you the first president to recognize the state of Israel was Harry Truman, a Democrat and every president since, Democrat and Republican,… — Dick Durbin
I was a big fan of Ronald Reagan. He was the first president I got to vote for. — Steve Daines
Even the country's first president chafed at the limits placed on him by the writers of the U.S. Constitution. From the nature of the Constitution,… — George Washington
Andrew Jackson was the first president to claim that the desires of the public overrode Congress's constitutional prerogatives. Virtually every president since Jackson has claimed… — Ron Fournier
Miss Wormwood: Calvin, your test was an absolute disgrace! It's obvious you haven't read any of the material. Our first president was not Chef Boy-Ar-Dee… — Bill Watterson
Since Jimmy Carter, religious fundamentalists play a major role in elections. He was the first president who made a point of exhibiting himself as a… — Noam Chomsky
In theory, at least, all presidents are servants of the people who elected them. In the case of Barack Obama, it has seemed from the… — Charlie Pierce
Nelson Mandela was an outstanding leader and a mentor for me. I was in South Africa at the time he was released. I was in… — Gail Kelly
The first president I met was L. B. J. — Dan Jenkins
Unless things change radically, President Bush will be the first President since Herbert Hoover to have presided over a net loss of jobs during his… — Tim Johnson
I've been a strong financial and political supporter of, first, President Bush Sr. when he was running for president, and even when he ran for… — Kenneth Lay
Someone has to die so that President Nixon won't be, and these are his words, 'the first President to lose a war. — Senator John Kerry

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