Quotes About Good Presidents

#1. Good presidents, people like George Bush, they SEND people to war. They don't bring them a rescue. This is America. We rescue insurance companies and banks.

Bill Maher

#2. Botswana had three successive good presidents who served their legal terms, who did well for their countries - three, not one.

Mo Ibrahim

#3. There are a lot of smart honest, progressive people who I think can be good presidents.

Bernie Sanders

#4. 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

#5. I wasn't any good at sports, but I could name all the presidents by the time I was six. I've always been very interested in politics and in religion.

John Fugelsang

#6. Some of the presidents were great and some of them weren't. I can say that, because I wasn't one of the great presidents, but I had a good time trying to be one, I can tell you that.

Harry S. Truman

#7. I would say to my colleague that the misery index, inflation and unemployment, when added together is the lowest it has been in the last series of Presidents, even going back to Jimmy Carter. So I think the Bush administration is doing a good job.

Cliff Stearns

#8. I found an empty chair
and sat on it
to find myself even emptier.
I found a broken glass
and looked at it
to see my dissolved face
a little prettier
I found a steep doorway
and entered
in order to close my exit.
From the poem 'Blue Stanzas

Munia Khan

#9. Most of the mess that is called history comes about because kings and presidents cannot be satisfied with a nice chicken and a good loaf of bread.

Jennifer Donnelly

#10. Advertising scientifically worked presented itself thus as the great new force. It really does the thing, you know.

Henry James

#11. Not every word is fit for every ear.

Elif Shafak

#12. Some people put down all presidents. If you say anything good about any of them, they think you're supporting everything they do.

Neil Young

#13. Presidents generally do what they are good at in their first four years, then spend their second term responding to the agendas imposed upon them by events.

Dick Morris

#14. 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

#15. Everybody's talking about ministers, sinisters, banisters, and canisters, bishops, fishops, rabbis, and popeyes, bye-bye, bye-byes.

John Lennon

#16. Here is a pretty good rule of thumb for Democratic Presidents: if it didn't work for Franklin D. Roosevelt, who won four terms and a World War, it probably won't work for you either.

Jon Meacham

#17. Let's give our slave a big dream. A big future.

Stasia Ward Kehoe

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

George W. Bush

#19. I think baking is an incredible thing; cooking in general is an incredible thing.

Blake Lively

#20. 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

#21. I would rather be an independent senator, governed by my own views, going for the good of the country, uncontrolled by any thing which mortal man can bring to bear upon me, than to be president of the United States, put there as presidents of the United States have been for many years past.

John C. Calhoun

#22. Presidents quickly realize that while a single act might destroy the world they live in, no one single decision can make life suddenly better or can turn history around for the good.

Lyndon B. Johnson

#23. There is pain and suffering in this world, but there is also joy, and not just suffering here and joy there, but suffering and joy in the very same place.

Todd Neva

#24. Fame is finally only the sum total of all the misunderstanding that can gather around a new name.

Rainer Maria Rilke

#25. Presidents Trump's USA is not a good country to be a sickly person in.

Steven Magee

#26. We elect our Presidents, be they Republican or Democrat, then start daring 'em to make good.

Will Rogers

#27. No, Wayne (Rooney) doesn't need it (tips about style). He has his own style. But with hair he looks much better. He looks very good now. Before, he was a little bit ugly, but now, with hair, he's beautiful.

Cristiano Ronaldo

#28. I credit my grandmother for teaching me to love and respect food. She taught me how to waste nothing, to make sure I used every bit of the chicken and boil the bones till no flavor could be extracted from them.

Marcus Samuelsson

#29. Great presidents don't just fight good fights - they win them.

Rush Limbaugh

#30. I would just want to wish President Obama the best of luck, and that he should bear in mind that just as he is a good person, there are many of us presidents in Latin America who are also good people.

Rafael Correa

#31. Our priests and presidents, our surgeons and lawyers, our educators and newscasters need worry less about satisfying the demands of their discipline than the demands of good showmanship.

Neil Postman

#32. When you see a woman wearing McQueen, there's a certain hardness to the clothes that makes her look powerful. It kind of fends people off.

Alexander McQueen

#33. Conservatives don't want to read good, smart books. They mostly want to read Fox and talk radio hosts writing about presidents.

Alex Pareene