Top 100 Quotes About A President: Famous Quotes & Sayings About A President

#1. I wouldn't mind going somewhere and taking a president position and signing acts and taking the attention off of me and taking what I've learned in my career and applying that to another person's.

T.I.

#2. I want a president who can handle a cream soda.

Al Franken

#3. We need a President that all Americans can respect, not a celebrity who uses words like freedom and liberty like they are a punchline in a reality show.

George Pataki

#4. President Roosevelt proved that a President could serve for life. Truman proved that anyone could be elected. Eisenhower proved that your country can be run without a President.

Nikita Khrushchev

#5. I think people are looking for a president who has views and who sticks to those views. So, I think Governor Romney, Governor Perry, Governor Huntsman are all terrific candidates. I think we got a chance to elect a real, executive leader.

Lamar Alexander

#6. A president, like a college freshman, can't know in advance which questions he'll have to answer or what topics he'll have to master. He has to be flexible, supple, and responsive. He has to be comfortable with multiple-choice.

Walter Kirn

#7. I've known Clinton for probably the last year that he was in office and stuff. The vibe that I always got from Clinton was, you-know, he never gave me a president-vibe.

Wyclef Jean

#8. The greater informational levels of the voters, their decreasing inhibitions in expressing disagreement, and their greater preference for Jeffersonian direct involvement, all make the need for a 'permanent campaign' to sell a president's policies all the more crucial.

Dick Morris

#9. There is no doubt a president has to govern for everyone.

Enrique Pena Nieto

#10. presidents, when not outright telling lies, feel obliged to shade the truth most of the time. This is called politics; when a president lies successfully, he is called a statesman.

Gore Vidal

#11. Trust remains the coin of the realm in politics. A President who is trusted, by the people, by the congress, by the press, by foreign countries, is a President who can get a lot of good things done.

David Gergen

#12. '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

#13. Once upon a time we did not focus on a president's private life.

Tom Ford

#14. America needs a president who can fix the economy because he understands the economy, and I do and I will.

Mitt Romney

#15. People used to complain that selling a president was like selling a bar of soap. But when you buy soap, at least you get the soap. In this campaign you just get two guys telling you they really value cleanliness.

David Brooks

#16. I don't think it's patriotic to put on a flight suit and prance around on the deck of an aircraft carrier looking for a photo op. We have a president of the United States who did not do his duty to take care of America. If you're patriotic, you do your duty.

Wesley Clark

#17. Being a president is like riding a tiger. A man has to keep on riding or he is swallowed.

Harry S. Truman

#18. I say that when you elect a president you want a man to manage the legitimate business of your government. The government that is big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take it away.

Barry Goldwater

#19. We need a President who is not afraid of complexity, who believes in an open and tolerant society, and who knows that the world can be made new again - and that President is Al Gore.

Caroline Kennedy

#20. The Obama administration is fighting to block access to names of visitors to the White House, taking up the Bush administration argument that a president doesn't have to reveal who comes calling to influence policy decisions.

Bill Dedman

#21. They call me racist too just because I disagree with a president who happens to be black. You are not racists - you are patriots.

Herman Cain

#22. We should have a strong president. Strong enough to resist the temptation of taking power that a president shouldn't have.

Ron Paul

#23. Making recess appointments when the Senate isn't in recess is neither rational nor moderate. It's a raw misuse of executive power by a president whose love of government is his most vulnerable spot with the electorate.

John Podhoretz

#24. The military's job is to win the war. A president's job is to win the peace.

John F. Kerry

#25. A president and a party that can provide insurance for 31 million more Americans is far preferable to most voters than a party that only says, 'No.'

Bernie Sanders

#26. Most people hates politicians and politics itself:but always vote during election to elect a president. I am always tempted to ask who a politician is ?

Aboagye Williamson De-graft

#27. There isn't a mayor in the world or a president in the world that can stop homicides.

Keith Hobbs

#28. Only the very ignorant and foolish believe that a president who has surrounded himself with Wall Street darlings as cabinet ministers has any serious designs on the trusts.

Eugene V. Debs

#29. We have a president who stole the presidency through family ties, arrogance and intimidation, employing Republican operatives to exercise the tactics of voter fraud by disenfranchising thousands of blacks, elderly Jews and other minorities.

Barbra Streisand

#30. When you are serving volunteer professional military, you take an oath to the Constitution, not to a policy or a president and you swear to obey the lawful orders of the democratically elected government. And so at the end of the day you could table your personal political views and do your job.

Nathaniel Fick

#31. A president is supposed to calm the American people with sober decision-making in the national interest.

Monica Crowley

#32. I mean, when's the last time we elected a president based on one year of service in the Senate before he started running? I mean, he will have been a senator longer by the time he's inaugurated, but essentially once you start running for president full time you don't have time to do much else.

William J. Clinton

#33. The equality that we are all entitled to, as citizens of this democracy, can't be avoided by some religious dogma of a President who's is supposed to believe in the notion of separation of church and state. And he frankly doesn't.

Rosie O'Donnell

#34. We have a president[Barack Obama] who doesn't have a clue. I would say he's incompetent, but I don't want to do that because that's not nice.

Donald Trump

#35. We need a president who stands up, number one, and says, we will defeat ISIS. And number two, says the greatest national security threat facing America is a nuclear Iran.

Ted Cruz

#36. And I think most people in this country want to see a president that's got the courage to say we're going to cut the tax burden, and reduce the regulatory climate, and we're going to get Americans working.

Rick Perry

#37. I refused to conform to an image that a lot of people thought a president's brother should adopt.

Billy Carter

#38. When a president promises something beyond his years in office, he is fundamentally unaccountable. It is not his budget that must finish the job. Another president inherits the problem, and it becomes a ball too easily dropped, a plan too easily abandoned, a dream too readily deferred.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#39. I'm hard pressed to give an example on the spot of a president who explicitly spoke of the vindication of history, but I'm confident that there are many such examples.

David Greenberg

#40. Consumer: A person who is capable of choosing a president but incapable of choosing a bicycle without help from a government agency.

Herbert Stein

#41. The effect of that is to poison the flow of information to the President himself and to create a situation where a President can be almost, to use a metaphor, psychotically divorced from the realities in which he is acting ...

Daniel Ellsberg

#42. There are people on staff who have made that point, that the upside to a second Bush term is that it makes 'American Dad' work better. To me, the price is too high. I would gladly give up the comedy to have a President Kerry. But you work with what you have.

Seth MacFarlane

#43. I have been chastised by a president, I have antagonized and angered presidents, and I have taken on my own leadership.

Xavier Becerra

#44. I'm going to be so much better a president for having been at the CIA that you're not going to believe it.

George H. W. Bush

#45. A President and his wise men can only propose; but Congress disposes. It is when President and Congress agree that American history marches forward.

Theodore White

#46. The unknown has undone many a president, and no matter the popularity of an Oval Office occupant, any and all presidents are vulnerable. Of course, one thing that seems to set Obama part from his recent predecessors is his ability to keep an inner calm about tough issues.

Chuck Todd

#47. The president is a president for all Singaporeans. Not only for those who have voted for me, but even for those who have not voted for me.

Tony Tan

#48. Ronald Reagan?wasn't without leadership ability, but he lacked most of the management skills that a President needs. But let me give him his due: he would have made a hell of a king.

Tip O'Neill

#49. With all the power that a president has, the most important thing to bear in mind is this: You must not give power to a man unless, above everything else, he has character. Character is the most important qualification the president of the United States can have.

Richard M. Nixon

#50. Nixon had some large achievements in foreign affairs. They will be remembered. But a president probably gets remembered for one thing, and Watergate will head the Nixon list, I suspect.

Bob Woodward

#51. The ability to listen to smart people who disagree with you is a rare talent - but a president should have it.

Anonymous

#52. I think that the important point is we've got to have a president who understands the benefits of free trade but also is going to enforce unfair trade agreements and is going to stand up to other countries.

Barack Obama

#53. Clinton was a president who used his office, in creative ways, to try to reinvigorate the federal government to benefit the majority.

Sidney Blumenthal

#54. Whatever his private beliefs and religious practice, a president must be the guardian of the laws which ensure America's religious diversity.

Walter F. Mondale

#55. When a president's popularity grows, the he is doing wrong things.

Debasish Mridha

#56. If you're a speech writer for a president, you don't really see all that much of him because there's so many layers between you and him. But with a vice president, it's different.

Christopher Buckley

#57. I have been supporting the European Union, but we are still a work in progress. We have to become more of a United States of Europe. We should talk about electing a president of the E.U., rather than having one selected from the heads of government.

George Papandreou

#58. Anywhere in the world if you see a president holding his chair tightly, that man is either a thief or a tyrant, and even worse than this, he is both!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#59. I had a recurring fantasy in which I took (Rudy Giuliani) out during a press conference (it was nonlethal, just something that put him out of commission for a year or so), saving America from the horror of a President Giuliani. If that sounds like I had some trouble being 'objective,' I did.

Michael Hastings

#60. When sudden death takes a president, opportunities for new beginnings flourish among the ambitious and the tensions among such people can be dramatic, as they were when President Kennedy was killed.

Russell Baker

#61. In 27 years of reporting from Washington, I've never heard a President admit he made a mistake.

Sam Donaldson

#62. I don't want a president like me! I suck, okay. I want an elitist, smart guy.

Denis Leary

#63. I have a way of life that I don't change just because I am a president. I earn more than I need, even if it's not enough for others. For me, it is no sacrifice, it's a duty.

Jose Mujica

#64. We need a president who is focused on defeating every single ISIS terrorist and protecting the homeland, which should be the first priority.

Ted Cruz

#65. The President's post should not be politicised. Once a president is elected, he is above politics.

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

#66. I am not liked as a President by the politicians in office, in the press, or in Congress. But I am content to abide the judgment the sober second thought of the people.

Rutherford B. Hayes

#67. If you do a serious presidential bio, you want to supply the reader with maximum material because otherwise you're offending the reader. A president for many people is a serious thing and they want to know everything.

Amity Shlaes

#68. This is what I've been waiting for my whole life. A President who's not afraid to tell the truth about being a lying a**hole.

Lewis Black

#69. If men like [Ken] Starr and his allies could ignore the Constitution and abuse power for ideological and malicious ends to topple a President, I feared for my country.

Hillary Clinton

#70. As the age of television progresses the Reagans will be the rule, not the exception. To be perfect for television is all a President has to be these days.

Gore Vidal

#71. In choosing a president, we really don't choose a Republican or Democrat, a conservative or liberal. We choose a leader.

Rudy Giuliani

#72. Hillary Clinton understands that a president's job is to worry about future generations, not the short-term profits of the fossil fuel industry.

Bernie Sanders

#73. I think it eminently proper that a president should retire from active politics, and equally proper that he should be able to live in quiet independence.

Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar II

#74. The very first day that President [Barack] Obama was inaugurated, his first act as a president was to rescind that ban on third-trimester abortions. And he's even carried it further. Now, even if the baby is born alive, they have the right to kill that baby. It is an abomination.

Ted Cruz

#75. I met five presidents. I had dinner with a president of the United States in the White House. I played golf with a president of the United States. I made money. I mean, when I look at it, I had a unbelievably fabulous career. And I'm extremely grateful.

Jim Leyland

#76. We need to have a president that's going to pledge, as I have - I'm going to make America the number-one manufacturer so working men and women can have good paying jobs again in America.

Rick Santorum

#77. A president must know what it is he does not know, and he should remain calm in pursuit of it, but there is no obligation to be honest about it.

George Friedman

#78. The good people of a nation always vote a bad leader as a president in Africa

Aboagye Williamson De-graft

#79. The new rule of thumb is that 80% of a president's time must be spent in raising funds for their schools.

James E. Rogers

#80. To my mind, a president should care about all people, and he didn't, which is why I will always feel Reagan lacked soul.

Helen Thomas

#81. If you elect me president, we will have a president that believes America is the greatest country in the world and we will have a president that acts like it.

Marco Rubio

#82. I walked out of Spielberg's 'Lincoln' having such a thirst for more. It used such a microscopic albeit enormous event in American history. It used such a small piece of his presidency to illustrate him as a president through the lens of that event.

Jesse Johnson

#83. It's not doing what is right that's hard for a President. It's knowing what is right.

Lyndon Johnson

#84. An editor sleeping with his writer was not as bad as a psychoanalyst sleeping with his patient, or even a professor sleeping with an undergraduate, let alone a president with an intern.

Edward St. Aubyn

#85. Ronald Reagan was a president of strength. His philosophy was a philosophy of strength - a strong military, a strong economy and strong families.

Mitt Romney

#86. I've used the prestige and influence of having been a president of the United States as effectively as possible. And secondly, I've still been able to carry out my commitments to peace and human rights and environmental quality and freedom and democracy and so forth.

Jimmy Carter

#87. They've got a Jobs Council that never meets. A Democratic Senate that doesn't act. A President who doesn't believe and a Vice President who won't stop talking. They just don't get it.

Thomas G. Stemberg

#88. We deserve a president of the United States who will write laws for all Americans, not for campaign contributors. And I intend to be a president for all Americans who takes back the flag of our country because it doesn't belong to any party, doesn't belong to any president.

John F. Kerry

#89. For a bill to become law, it truly has to be the will of the people, and for a president to stop the will of the people and stop what you're trying to do in your state is not the role of Washington.

Nikki Haley

#90. As a citizen, I would rather have a President McCain that we fight with 20% of the time, than a President Clinton or a President Obama that we fight with 90% of the time.

Newt Gingrich

#91. A president cannot sit on his hands and be seen as passive in the face of ruthless action by a foreign dictator.

Robert Dallek

#92. What is novel is a president who wishes to maintain, while in office, a personal security force which during his campaign used force against dissenters. As

Timothy Snyder

#93. The problem with State of the Union speeches is that they are, by their nature and design, alphabet soup. It's hard to know what a president really cares about when they run down a laundry list and check every issue box under the sun for fear they will offend some constituency if they don't.

Mark McKinnon