Communication Quote by James Franklin Jeffrey

The job of the president of the United States is to talk to the public, is to explain to them. Now, some presidents talk…

— P. J. O'Rourke

I know that presidents often have really bad phone conversations. What they usually don't do is go out and talk about it. That gets…

— James Franklin Jeffrey

Historians sometimes view presidents very differently from the way the public did at the time. Sometimes they don't.

— Michael Beschloss

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

— Pat Paulsen

Our relationship with presidents is often like that of a teenager and parent. He's our leader, but sometimes we rail against his decisions for…

— Martha MacCallum

Each one of us is an individual, just like talk show hosts are different from one another, and newspaper columnists are different from each…

— Jimmy Carter

Different presidents are different as far as their public persona vs. their persona meeting with advisers. For example, George Bush was pretty much the…

— Kris Kobach

I have known several presidents quite well, including my husband, and I worked closely with President George W. Bush and the White House then…

— Hillary Clinton

Not every President is a great speaker. Not every President is a great thinker. But in the modern era, every single President is a…

— Brad Meltzer

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

— Charles Schumer

The president, by virtue of his office, can easily 'go dark' when it comes to conversations with foreign leaders, even if he makes promises…

— Asha Rangappa

I have seen that our best presidents were the do-nothing presidents: Millard Fillmore, Warren G. Harding. When you have a president who does things,…

— Utah Phillips