Popular President Quotes

#1. I'm not driving to be a popular president.

Enrique Pena Nieto

#2. Twenty-one years ago today Saddam Hussein was first elected president of Iraq and he has been re-elected ever since. Apparently they have the same electoral process we do, you don't need the popular vote to win.

Jay Leno

#3. Hey, moose! I screamed. The Set animal locked its glowing eyes one me. Well done! Horus said. Now we'll both die with honor! Shut up, I thought.

Rick Riordan

#4. One's own escape from troubles makes one glad; but bringing friends to trouble is hard grief.

Sophocles

#5. You treat me like a child, but I know what I fucking know. You're scared. Love comes with responsibilities, and you've been hiding from them your whole life.

Bijou Hunter

#6. God likes to appear to us in this way. He does not come in the form of God but in the form of man, without making any declaration that He is Jehovah God.

Witness Lee

#7. I have a very real political awareness that at least on a transient basis the more drastic action taken by the president, the more popular it is.

Jimmy Carter

#8. In 1986, our commencement speaker was George Schultz, secretary of state, fourth in line to the president. You get me-basic cable's second most popular fake newsman. At this rate, the class of 2021 will be addressed by a zoo parrot in a mortar-board that has been trained to say congratulations.

Stephen Colbert

#9. 'Bush v. Gore' gave us a president who lost the popular vote, eventually appointed two more justices, and led us into a war of choice while failing to regulate a financial system dependent on toxic mortgage-backed derivatives.

Marvin Ammori

#10. Dillinger at one point was the second most popular man in America after President Roosevelt. And he was a national hero for a good reason. He was robbing the very institutions, the banks, which had afflicted the people for four years, and after four years nothing was getting any better.

Michael Mann

#11. Oh, I get pretty fired up on the court. I try to play with a lot of emotion, especially when I'm playing in front of a large crowd. I want to go out and do my best, and to do that, I have to play with the most energy possible.

Lleyton Hewitt

#12. I guess I was one of the popular kids. I played soccer, I was class president - I even dated the homecoming queen.

Matthew Morrison

#13. While he was president, it was popular to be a Nixon hater.

Earl Butz

#14. I promise that as a president elected in a direct popular vote, I will try to be the voice of all citizens.

Milos Zeman

#15. A president can be unpopular for good reasons. You know, I'm not always on the side that the people are right, for God's sake. But, you know, he's not popular when he goes overseas. He couldn't go to Rosa Parks' funeral.

Bill Maher

#16. The ancestors of printed comics drew, painted and carved their time-paths from beginning to end, without interruption, ... the infinite canvas.

Scott McCloud

#17. Nobody can teach you how to like something. You can like it, or you can pretend to like it, in order to make someone happy.

Lemony Snicket

#18. When you try to do something ten per cent better, you tend to work from where you are: if I ask you to make a car that goes 50 miles a gallon, you can just retool the engine you already have.

Astro Teller

#19. Raising the minimum wage, as President Obama proposed in his State of the Union address, tends to be more popular with the general public than with economists.

Christina Romer

#20. A President cannot always be popular.

Harry Truman

#21. I believe that people will do what is right and good if they are given a chance and are convinced that what they are being asked to do will truly help others.

Helen Boosalis

#22. George W. Bush is very popular in Sub-Saharan Africa. Why? Because of PEPFAR, the President's Emergency Program for AIDS Relief.

Hillary Clinton

#23. I did not become president to be popular. To work, to lead, to protect and preserve our country, our people, that is why I became president.

Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo

#24. My mom always said that still waters ran deep, so maybe Chase had a lot more things going on than I realized.

Elle Casey

#25. Throughout the history of the United States , war has been the primary impetus behind the growth and development of the central state. It has been the lever by which presidents and other national officials have bolstered the power of the state in the face of tenacious popular resistance.

Bruce D. Porter

#26. I don't want my president to be a TV star. You don't have to be on television every minute of every day - you're the president, not a rerun of 'Law & Order'. TV stars are too worried bout being popular and too concerned about being renewed.

Bill Maher

#27. People love America. Sometimes they don't like the decisions made by America, but I don't think you want a president who tries to become popular and does the wrong thing.

George W. Bush

#28. I believe that what we regret most are our failures of courage, whether it's the courage to be kinder, to show up, to say how we feel, to set boundaries, to be good to ourselves. For that reason, regret can be the birthplace of empathy.

Brene Brown

#29. Al Gore won the popular vote and didn't get elected president, so I'm not going to sit here and kill myself over not winning Defensive Player of the Year.

Draymond Green

#30. In 1989 an American invasion, Operation Just Cause, had ousted the government of President Manuel Noriega. 'They got rid of Ali Baba but they forgot the forty thieves,' ran a popular joke in Panama.

Adam Sisman

#31. The low minded are fond of deception the nature of low-minded people never changes.

Chanakya

#32. Sometimes,when life gets hard, and people make you angry or even when you're scared, the best response is laughter.Laugh in the face of fear, in the face of what scares you the most.It's the only way to get you through the things that bring you to tears.

Rachel Van Dyken

#33. When Reagan left office, he was the most unpopular living president, apart from Nixon, even below Carter. If you look at his years in office, he was not particularly popular. He was more or less average. He severely harmed the American economy.

Noam Chomsky

#34. The was something very satisfying about a smile that had to be earned.

Kasie West

#35. Electing Barack Obama president was a glorious Jackie Robinson moment for the United States of America. Obama didn't just win; he became the first Democrat since Jimmy Carter to win a popular-vote majority.

Timothy Noah