Worst President Quotes

#1. I would be the worst president in the history of the United States. Unless you want the apocalypse to happen really soon then yes, I'll run for president.

Darren Criss

#2. George W. Bush is the worst President
in all of American history.

Helen Thomas

#3. The worst president is closer by nature to the best then either is to anyone who has not gone through what it requires to become president.

George Friedman

#4. Barack Obama is the worst President in history.

Ben Quayle

#5. Obama has been the single worst president in modern American history in dealing with the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Reza Aslan

#6. If you could have imagined that someone is happy that Obama is president, it has to be Jimmy Carter because he is no longer the worst president in our history.

Oliver North

#7. Donald Trump called George W. Bush 'the worst president in the history of the United States.' Then he added, 'Until, of course, I'm elected.'

Conan O'Brien

#8. I would sooner want a strong partnership with the United States - even with (US President George W.) Bush, who I think is the worst president in a long, long time. I would sooner want a friendship with Bush than with (Russian President Vladimir) Putin.

Bernard-Henri Levy

#9. It seems to me that President Carter has earned his place as if not the worst president in history, the worst president of the 20th Century.

John McCain

#10. I'm covering the worst president in American history.

Helen Thomas

#11. Is [Obama] the worst president ever? He's certainly the most destructive president we've had in terms of tearing apart this country and all of the freedoms that we have fought for.

Kimberly Guilfoyle

#12. I thought Nixon was the worst President we had ever had, save only perhaps Andrew Johnson.

Stephen Ambrose

#13. The worst enemy of good government is not our ignorant foreign voter, but our educated domestic railroad president, our prominent business man, our leading lawyer.

John Jay Chapman

#14. The great thing about not being president anymore is I can say whatever I want, about anything. Of course [now], nobody really cares what I say. And now I have the worst of all worlds
my wife has become the secretary of state, so no one really cares what I say
unless I mess up.

William J. Clinton

#15. We have every reason to assume the worst.

George W. Bush

#16. At an unprecedented time with the worst attack ever on our soil, our President displayed extraordinary determination, leadership and resolve when history was thrust upon him and the United States.

Olympia Snowe

#17. Worst damnfool mistake I ever made was letting myself be elected Vice-President of the United States. Should have stuck?as Speaker of the House? Gave up the second most important job in Government foreight long years as Roosevelt's spare tire.

John Nance Garner

#18. In his first term, President Barack Obama played a cautious manager navigating the worst economic disaster since the Great Depression and cleaning up the messes left by President George W. Bush in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Kevin O'Leary

#19. [On President Clinton's address:] It was the worst inaugural address of our lifetime, and I think the only controversy will be between those who say it was completely and utterly banal and those who say, 'Well, not completely and utterly.

Peggy Noonan

#20. The simple fact of the matter is, as I know everyone in this room knows, that the recession that this country faced when this President took office was the worst since the Great Depression.

Jay Carney

#21. In general I saw my job as the first president whose full term would be served after the Cold War in a global information society where we were interdependent but not integrated. And therefore, we were vulnerable to the worst, and able to seize the best, of what's going on in the world.

William J. Clinton

#22. As Ohio's working families continue to recover from the worst economic recession in our country's history, we need a president who's committed to growing our economy by lifting up the middle class.

Sherrod Brown

#23. We must take the battle to the enemy, disrupt his plans, and confront the worst threats before they emerge.

George W. Bush

#24. Now, I don't think President Obama and Vice President Biden get the credit they deserve for saving us from the worst economic crisis of our lifetimes. Our economy is so much stronger than when they took office.

Hillary Clinton

#25. One undeniable accomplishment of Bill Clinton's presidency was that it kept Jimmy Carter from being the worst U.S. president in history.

Thomas Sowell

#26. As a kid, I had the worst mile time ever. Our gym teacher made us run the mile a few times a year for something called the Presidential Fitness Test. I'd huff and puff and wonder why the hell President Bush cared how fast I could run laps around the playground. I always came in dead last.

Miranda Kenneally

#27. Being president looks like the worst job in the world.

John Mulaney

#28. Natural Texas politicians make terrible, terrible presidential candidates. Phil Gramm, I remember the 'Phil Gramm for President' campaign. I thought that was the worst thing in the history of the world, but Rick Perry was possibly worse.

Gail Collins

#29. So far as I'm concerned, Ronald Reagan was the best president. Nixon was the worst. Some of his policies were okay, but he disgraced the office.

Charles Krauthammer

#30. The worst day of my political life was when President George W. Bush signed McCain-Feingold into law in the early part of his first Administration.

Mitch McConnell

#31. Marco Rubio has got the number one worst attendance record, and they want him to be president, right?

Donald Trump

#32. One of our worst traits in journalism is that when we have a narrative in our minds, we often plug in anecdotes that confirm it. Thus we managed to portray President Gerald Ford, a first-rate athlete, as a klutz.

Nicholas Kristof

#33. I've come to realize that Barack Obama is the tattoo president. Like a big tattoo, it seemed cool when you were young. But later on, that decision doesn't look so good, and you wonder: what was I thinking? But the worst part is you're still going to have to explain it to your kids.

Tim Pawlenty

#34. Should Sen. McCain capture the nomination as many assume, I believe this general election will offer the worst choices for President in my lifetime. I certainly can't vote for Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama based on their virulently anti-family policy positions.

James Dobson

#35. When I ask President Marcos for two million dollars, at worst he wants to know whether he should bring the money straight away or whether I can wait for a cheque in the post.

Florencio Campomanes

#36. Often President Obama's worst critics are Senator Obama and candidate Obama.

Peter Schiff

#37. I feel like he inherited one of the worst economies than any president has ever, ever inherited. I have met Mr. Obama, President Obama. I supported him in his first campaign, and I feel that he deserves four more years to finish up the job that he started.

Vivica A. Fox

#38. Shock, confusion, fear, anger, grief, and defiance. On Sept. 11, 2001, and for the three days following the worst terrorist attack on U.S. soil, President George W. Bush led with raw emotion that reflected the public's whipsawing stages of acceptance.

Ron Fournier

#39. President Carter inherited an impossible situation
and he and his advisers made the worst of it.

Gaddis Smith

#40. Bill Clinton has done some incredibly reckless, irresponsible things as president. But his campaign to expand Medicare entitlements has to rank among the worst.

Virginia Postrel

#41. Donald Trump says he's President Obama's worst nightmare. That's not true. Having to make a decision is Obama's worst nightmare.

Jay Leno

#42. I can't think of a more mediocre human talent than George Bush. He obviously is a product of family advantage, and he's the worst American President of all time.

Randall Robinson