Presidency Quotes
339 Presidency quotes by 216 unique authors
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The necessary transformation of which I speak and of which my presidency will be a part is built on turning creative possibilities into live realities…
— Michael D. Higgins
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In 2004, I joined my father, John Kerry, on the trail in his bid for the United States presidency.
— Alexandra Kerry
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Throughout his presidency, Clinton made a point of getting close - physically and emotionally - to the people whose problems his administration was working to…
— Dee Dee Myers
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The party of swindlers and thieves is putting forward its chief swindler and its chief thief for the presidency. We must vote against him, struggle…
— Alexei Navalny
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Obama was elected in a flourish of promise that many in the African-American community believed would help not only to symbolize African-American progress since the…
— Douglas Wilder
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Obama won the presidency on the strength of his message and the skills of the messenger. Now the talk of hope and change feels out…
— Ron Fournier
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Former President Bill Clinton, who is widely regarded as a political mastermind, may have sounded like a traditional liberal at the beginning of his term…
— Thomas Frank
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The presidency of the Euro group is an interesting and important task.
— Wolfgang Schauble
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If his presidency is to represent the full power of the idea that black Americans are just like everyone else - fully human and fully…
— Juan Williams
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The people of the Sudan expect a lot from the institution of the presidency, and we should live up to their expectations.
— Salva Kiir Mayardit
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Consider the vice president, George Bush, a man so bedeviled by bladder problems that he managed, for the last eight years, to be in the…
— Barbara Ehrenreich
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Presidents do make mistakes, but the immortal Dante tells us that divine justice weighs the sins of the cold-blooded and the sins of the warm-hearted…
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Bush said today he is being stalked. He said wherever he goes, people are following him. Finally, someone told him, 'Psst. That's the Secret Service.'
— Jay Leno
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Our aim, during our Presidency in the next six months will be to lead this challenge, to show that Europe can function in a mature…
— John Hutton
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Anybody who wants the presidency so much that he'll spend two years organizing and campaigning for it is not to be trusted with the office.
— David Broder
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It was as simple as this: The Kennedys had a feeling of being heightened and it rubbed off on the people who came in contact…
— Charles Spalding
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Using the Oval office to cheat on your wife makes you a bad husband and an irresponsible leader. Using the Oval office to lead your…
— Jules Carlysle
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Don't begin to think you're the President. You're not. The Constitution provides for only one.
— Donald Rumsfeld
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Walk around. If you are invisible, the mystique of the President's office may perpetuate inaccurate impressions about you or the President, to his detriment. After…
— Donald Rumsfeld
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To be a great president, you have to have a war. All the great presidents have had their wars.
— Unknown Author
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On a good day, I view the job [of president] as directing an orchestra. On the dark days, it is more like that of a…
— A. Bartlett Giamatti
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Know that the immediate staff and others in the Administration will assume that your manner, tone and tempo reflect the President's.
— Donald Rumsfeld
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People in the media say they must look at the president with a microscope. Now, I don't mind a microscope, but boy, when they use…
— Richard M. Nixon
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Somewhere out in this audience may even be someone who will one day follow in my footsteps, and preside over the White House as the…
— Barbara Bush
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President Bush is taking the entire month of August off. Bush said today he thinks it is important for a president to spend time away…
— Jay Leno
Who Wrote These Presidency Quotes
216 authors contributed a total of 339 Presidency Quotes, led by these top contributors: