Clear Quote by Mark Crispin Miller

President George W. Bush was kind of a goofy tongue-tied dude. Mostly he just mangled the English language. Barack Obama, by contrast, was a…

— Mollie Hemingway

I mean, look, no matter how you feel about Bush, watching him speak is difficult. It's like- it's like watching a drunk man cross…

— Tucker Carlson

Bush is a very poor impromptu speaker. He does fine in small groups but when speaking without a script in front of large groups…

— Peter Schuyler

Trump doesn't care much about anyone's speech if it disagrees with him, and that's an extremely bad trait in a president making public pronouncements.

— Mary Katharine Ham

[The American President] has to take all sorts of abuse from liars and demagogues.… The people can never understand why the President does not…

— Harry S. Truman

The trouble with ghostwriting is that it raises the issue of whether the president is in a state of diminished responsibility for what he…

— Jonathan Raban

To me, the problem with the president is that he takes very authoritarian actions in terms of attacking democratic institutions and then just uttering…

— Ted Lieu

I think it's very important for the American president to mean what he says. That's why I understand that the enemy could misread what…

— George W. Bush

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

The words of the President have an enormous weight and ought not to be used indiscriminately.

— Calvin Coolidge

When a president speaks that usually means a lot.

— David Brooks

Most of the things that need to be said about the President are things he can't say himself.

— Robert Teeter