Approval Rating Quotes

#1. We've got a dictatorial president and a Justice Department that does not want Congress involved. Your guy's acting like he's king. His dad was at a 90 percent approval rating and he lost! And the same thing can happen to him!

Dan Burton

#2. A year ago my approval rating was in the 30s, my nominee for the Supreme Court had just withdrawn, and my vice president had shot someone. Ah, those were the good ol' days.

George W. Bush

#3. A congressman from Texas sent out a tweet comparing President Obama to Hitler. That is ridiculous because at this point in his career Hitler had a much higher approval rating.

Conan O'Brien

#4. Go for a 90 percent approval rating with people you know. The other 10 percent either don't know you well enough or are insane.

Robert J. Braathe

#5. Who knows if John McCain could have won that presidential campaign [2008] in any circumstances when George W. Bush the outgoing Republican president had a 22 percent approval rating.

Rachel Maddow

#6. Bill Clinton left office with a more than 60% approval rating.

Nancy Gibbs

#7. Linh Cinder. The renown. The reputation. The approval rating. New Beijing's best mechanic was ... a teenager? Kai was intrigued. He was amused, but more than that, he was impressed.

Marissa Meyer

#8. I mean, it's pretty disillusioning for all of us right now, and we feel pretty helpless when Congress, their approval rating is thirteen percent, and across the board, whether you're a Democrat or a Republican, you sort of want to walk in and fire everybody.

Christopher Cross

#9. Face it: a nation that maintains a 72% approval rating on George W. Bush is a nation with a very loose grip on reality.

Garrison Keillor

#10. The L.A. Times reports that al Qaeda terrorists have been traced to Iran, and President Bush is talking tough. In fact he said he will attack the minute he has evidence his approval rating is under 45 percent.

Jay Leno

#11. Truman has become the patron saint of failed presidents because he left office with a 27 percent approval rating, and people were saying, 'To err is Truman,' yet look at what he did: the Marshall Plan, the creation of NATO, the Truman Doctrine.

Douglas Brinkley

#12. The president is not doing well with African Americans. His popularity rating - his approval rating - with blacks: two percent. Two percent. That is somewhere between Mark Fuhrman and sickle cell anemia.

Bill Maher

#13. When I ran the first time in 2001, they called me 'The Latino Mayor.' By the time I left in 2013, with a 58 percent approval rating, half the people liked me, half the people didn't. I was everybody's mayor. There was never any criticism that I was just for one group.

Antonio Villaraigosa

#14. With gridlock the norm, Congress's approval rating is below 10 percent and the public has lost faith in its national leadership.

Ron Fournier

#15. Steve Jobs had something like a 90% approval rating from his employees. You hear stories about him being this short-tempered, aggressive person, which he was. But he was in the pursuit of making people around him better, so the product they created would be better.

Ashton Kutcher

#16. Michelle Obama has gone from political skeptic to political partner to a woman with a White House agenda of her own, and an approval rating higher than the president's.

Jodi Kantor

#17. President Bush delivered his first State of the Union address, riding high on an 82-percent approval rating, and with Attorney General John Ashcroft dispatching agents to interview the other 18 percent.

Jon Stewart

#18. Marry me," he said, his voice hoarse. "Share your life with me. Teach our children to ride ponies at twilight in search of fairies.

Vivienne Lorret

#19. I am writing a book about the Crusades so dull that I can scarcely write it.

Hilaire Belloc

#20. Politicians in their hubris who believe they can ignore debt or wish it away are sorely disappointed - as we see now with the plummeting approval ratings of both the administration and Congress.

Victor Davis Hanson

#21. To knock a thing down, especially if it is cocked at an arrogant angle, is a deep delight of the blood.

George Santayana

#22. You lost your shirt, Sam?"
"Anna was looking over the tattoo."
"Yeah." Nick grunted. "It looked like it.

Jennifer Rush

#23. Time is important to me now, I tell myself.Not that it should pass quickly or slowly, but only be time, be something I live inside and fill with physical things and activities that I can divide it up by. so that it grows distict to me and does not vanish when I am not looking.

Per Petterson

#24. The United States has launched airstrikes against ISIS. It's being called 'Operation Approval Ratings.'

David Letterman

#25. This is partly a function of approval ratings. People pay attention [to polls] and start saying, 'Lets take a more independent tack.' It is frankly self-interest, self-preservation.

John Thune

#26. I don't want anyone to appreciate the light or the palette of tones. I want my pictures to inform, to provoke discussion - and to raise money.

Sebastiao Salgado

#27. I'm homosexual ... How and why are idle questions. It's a little like wanting to know why my eyes are green.

Jean Genet

#28. Once you have mastered the ten thousand states of mind, it's paranirvana, the absorption into the stillness forever.

Frederick Lenz

#29. I'm scared of haunted things, like hearing noises in my house and stuff. That scares me.

Jermell Charlo

#30. Don't wait on approval, validation and likes from others - always give yourself the highest of approval ratings and work from there. Hold your head up and be fabulous no matter what!

Jody Watley

#31. How often have I lain beneath rain on a strange roof, thinking of home.

William Faulkner

#32. No one ever tells us the truth, even those we love.

Anna Held

#33. President Obama's approval ratings are so low now, Kenyans are accusing him of being born in the United States.

Jay Leno

#34. Ironically, the possibility that the president dodged his military service has increased his approval ratings with Democrats by 80 percent.

Craig Kilborn