President Quotes

• Children today will grow up taking for granted that an African-American or a woman can, yes, become the president of the United States.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • Children
  • Woman
  • United States

• Barack Obama's vision of America is one in which a President of the United States can fire the head of General Motors, tell banks how to bank, control the medical system and take charge of all sorts of other activities for which neither he nor other politicians have any expertise or experience.

  

  Thomas Sowell
  • Vision
  • Politician
  • Medical

• Either Angel Maria Villar was very clever or very stupid if Angel Maria Villar did not notice anything, it worries me that the RFEF president did not notice anything that was going on.

  

  Javier Tebas
  • Clever
  • Going
  • Anything

• We are ready to deal with any President [of U.S], but of course, and I mentioned that, it depends on the readiness of the future Administration.

  

  Vladimir Putin
  • Deals
  • Administration
  • Readiness

• In our system of government, the president is not supposed to be above the law. He is not a king; his word is not the law.

  

  Cenk Uygur
  • Law
  • Government
  • System

• I have said many times-if I hadn't been exposed to music as a child I don't think I would have been president.

  

  Bill Clinton
  • Music
  • Child
  • President

• The foundation of our Empire was not laid in the gloomy age of Ignorance and Superstition, but at an Epoch when the rights of mankind were better understood and more clearly defined, than at any former period.

  

  George Washington
  • Age
  • Ignorance
  • Mankind

• Yes, I'm going to be the President of the United States. You know why? You think you can get chicks by being in the movies? You can really get chicks by being the President.

  

  Ben Affleck
  • Why
  • Movie
  • United States

• I'd like to run for president. Or Prime Minister. I think I could do a better job.

  

  Thomas Edward Yorke Atoms for Peace
  • Thinking
  • Running
  • Jobs

• The idea that the president doesn't interfere in law-enforcement investigative matters is one of our deep normative expectations of the modern presidency. But it is not a matter of law. Legally, if the president of the United States wants to direct the specific conduct of investigations, that is his constitutional prerogative.

  

  Benjamin Wittes
  • Law
  • Direct
  • Investigations

• When people talk about how in America, anybody can grow up to be President, I'm not sure George Bush is exactly what they had in mind.

  

  Will Durst
  • People
  • Mind
  • America

• You know, one of the things I think you understand as president is you're held responsible for everything, but you don't always have control of everything, right?

  

  Barack Obama
  • Thinking
  • Control
  • Responsible

• Perhaps the cruelest thing ever said of Hubert Humphrey was that he had the soul of a vice president.

  

  Susan Estrich
  • Soul
  • Said
  • Vices

• Mr. President, putting it bluntly, wouldn't we just be continuing a bloodbath that already exists in Cambodia if we voted the 222 million in aid?

  

  Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr.
  • President
  • Aid
  • Bloodbath

• I will be a president of all Bulgarians, irrespective of their ethnicity, religion or political affiliations.

  

  Georgi Parvanov
  • Religion
  • President
  • Ethnicity

• If Scott Brown can win in a state that President Obama won by 26 points, I can win in a district that Obey won by just 20 points against an unknown, underfunded challenger in the Democratic landslide of 2008. It means there is not a single Democrat in the country who is safe.

  

  Sean Duffy
  • Country
  • Mean
  • Winning

• There's no way I could be president of the United States, I have no; military experience, I've never run a business, for God's sakes I mean - who could possibly clear that bar? The great thing about President Obama is he's actually left the presidential bar on the floor, anyone can walk over that bar now. If Barack Obama can be President of the United States literally anybody in the planet can be President of the United States.

  

  Bill Whittle
  • Business
  • Experience
  • United States

• Russia under President Putin is less democratic and less free today than when he assumed office. If Russia cannot fulfill its obligation to the G-8 and maintain a high standard of democratic governance then its membership should be suspended.

  

  Vito Fossella
  • Today
  • Office
  • Democratic

• I think that in the last eight years, we were averaging economic growth of about 2 percent. It's not good. It's very slow. It's a slow pace. People are expecting that pace to continue if Hillary Clinton becomes president.

  

  Maria Bartiromo
  • People
  • Good
  • Growth

• In the news, Chinese president Hu Jintao says that now that Barack Obama has been elected, he is looking forward to taking the relationship between China and the U.S. to the next level. That's what he said. Yeah. Then he said, 'Who knows, maybe we'll even go all the way.'

  

  Conan O'Brien
  • Relationship
  • Chinese
  • Barack Obama

• When other women have this same operation, it doesn't make any headlines. But the fact that I was the wife of the President put it in headlines and brought before the public this particular experience I was going through. It made a lot of women realize that it could happen to them. I'm sure I've saved at least one person maybe more.

  

  Betty Ford
  • Women
  • Experience
  • Wife

• When 25 percent of the population believe the President should be impeached and 51 percent of the population believe in UFOs, you may or may not need a new President, but you definitely need a new population...

  

  Harry Reasoner
  • President
  • Population
  • UFOs

• And I know I’ve lost. Everything is lost. Everything is over. “As the newly appointed President of this fair planet of ours,” the Mayor says, holding out his hands as if to show me the world for the first time,” let me be the very first to welcome you to its new capital city.” “Todd?” Viola whispers, her eyes closed. I hold her tightly to me. “I’m sorry,” I whisper to her. “I’m so sorry.” We’ve run right into a trap. We’ve run right off the end of the world. “Welcome,” says the Mayor,” to the New Prentisstown.

  

  Patrick Ness
  • Time
  • World
  • Lost

• People say nice things to me -- like that I ought to run for president -- which tells me that they like me. But I have my own deadline for how long I should be in Washington. I think you can get accustomed to red tape and many unfair things that go on in government. Once you stop getting angry about inefficiencies, waste, and injustice, you ought to get out. That's my time limit.

  

  Elizabeth Holtzman
  • People
  • Government
  • Angry

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