Quotes About Bad Presidents

#1. Presidents are always also storytellers, purveyors of useful national mythologies. And surprisingly enough, Richard Nixon, this awkward man who didn't even really like people, had not been so bad at this duty - at least in the first four years of his presidency.

Rick Perlstein

#2. Memo to future presidents: Never stake your entire survival on the painful passing of a bad bill. Never take the country down the road to 'Demon Pass.'

Peggy Noonan

#3. Making money is good, but there's no pockets in a shroud.

Terry Pratchett

#4. Jamie Oliver's lunch is soup, half a papaya with lime, ciabatta with mozzarella and prosciutto. The dear boy is not sharing the same planet as the rest of us. Is this lunacy supposed to be a practical suggestion for a harassed housewife trying to drag her children off to school?

Terry Wogan

#5. It is in middle age that the interest of a life attains its highest point.

Janet Erskine Stuart

#6. I took out my brush and got to brushing the waves on the back of my head.

Kiese Laymon

#7. When you talk about presidents, loyalty is a great thing until it becomes a bad thing. Witness once again Watergate.

Monica Crowley

#8. We have had good and bad Presidents, and it is a consoling reflection that the American Nation possesses such elements of prosperity that the bad Presidents cannot destroy it, and have been able to do no more than slightly to retard the public's advancement.

Henry Clay

#9. Bad presidents don't deserve holidays. They deserve scorn.

Ben Shapiro

#10. Presidents don't have a whole lot to say about prosperity or the economy. Government cannot create prosperity. There are a lot of other factors that determine whether there are good times or bad times.

Phyllis Schlafly

#11. In reality, I am not dependent, but
So as to keep dignity of the Generous
I have resorted to beggary.

Bedil

#12. Still we remain, still we fight. Still we strive, still we survive.

Saim .A. Cheeda

#13. I pretend I'm one of the royal family when I'm in a hotel and that the hotel belongs to me - it is a palace.

Martin Short

#14. When the mind no longer sees itself as a body, forever in bondage to the body, the mind can be free and at peace even when we are physically sick.

Lee L Jampolsky

#15. I don't complain.

Craig Kilborn

#16. Anger is as a stone cast into a wasp's nest.

Pope Paul VI

#17. An entire life of solitude contradicts the purpose of our being, since death itself is scarcely an idea of more terror.

Edmund Burke

#18. My own view is that taping of conversations for historical purposes was a bad decision on the part of all the presidents. I don't think Kennedy should have done it. I don't think Johnson should have done it, and I don't think we should have done it.

Richard M. Nixon

#19. I'd read a lot of thrillers about politicians and presidents, but never one where you flip the stereotypes and make good people bad and bad people good.

David Baldacci

#20. Never think I have abandoned you. When the sun shines on you, it is my smile. When you hear the breeze stir through the apple blossoms, it is my whisper that I love you. My love is yours forever.

Robert Jordan

#21. If you choose to turn your back, you don't really have a say in what goes on behind it.

Gwethalyn Graham

#22. How many times did someone have to run in front of a machine gun before it became an act of cowardice?

Michael Herr

#23. Presidents, whether things are good or bad, get the blame. I understand that.

George W. Bush

#24. Just as a blues player can play 20 blues songs in a row but find a way to make each one different, ... I always want to find different ways to do something

Joe Satriani