President Quotes

• I wanted to continue to be active on those things that I cared about when I was president where I could still have an impact.

  

  Bill Clinton
  • President
  • Active

• A President needs political understanding to run the government, but he may be elected without it.

  

  Harry S Truman
  • Government
  • President

• [President George W.] Bush - never mind his well-crafted set speeches; listen to him as he leans on a lectern, chatting to an audience of carpenters - is completely comfortable being himself, a skill still eluding Gore in his 55th year.

  

  George Will
  • Mind
  • Politics
  • President

• There are always going to be people who want to be president, and some days I'd like to give it to them.

  

  Bill Clinton
  • People
  • President

• Obama is a president, who I think is anti-jobs.

  

  Rick Perry
  • President
  • Jobs

• [In Eritrea] in key positions - president, government, police - everybody's the same [color]. It's a country run by its people. No racial class, everybody feels a part of it.

  

  Nipsey Hussle
  • People
  • Police
  • Eritrea

• Mitt Romney's losing at this point in a big way. If something's going to come out, get it out in a hurry. I do not know why - given that Mr. Romney knew the day that [Sen. John] McCain lost in 2008 that he was going to run for president again - that he didn't get all of this out and tidy up some of his offshore accounts and all the rest.

  

  George Will
  • Running
  • Losing
  • Republican

• China doesn't have a single leader. It has - a first among equals is the president, and his name will probably be Xi Jinping, almost certainly.

  

  Evan Osnos
  • President
  • Leader
  • China

• Nobody would put as little thought and effort into buying an automobile as they put into deciding who to elect as President of the United States.

  

  Thomas Sowell
  • Effort
  • Buying
  • Automobile

• I might not have been President if it hadn't been for school music. Learning improves in school environments where there are comprehensive music programs.

  

  Bill Clinton
  • President
  • School music
  • Music programs

• I wanna be a president for everyone in America. That's my goal, this what I will do, that's what I've done in my past.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • America
  • President

• The President hears a hundred voices telling him that he is the greatest man in the world. He must listen carefully indeed to hear the one voice that tells him his is not.

  

  Harry S Truman
  • World
  • President
  • Voices

• At the end of our lives, we will not be judged by the highest public office we attained in our lifetime, if that were true the current president George W. Bush would hold as much esteem as Franklin Roosevelt in our country, and Nelson Mandela in his. That cannot be the case. Rather, we will each be judged by the mark we've left on others.

  

  Elizabeth Edwards
  • Lifetime
  • Judged
  • Current

• I have a very real political awareness that at least on a transient basis the more drastic action taken by the president, the more popular it is.

  

  Jimmy Carter
  • Action
  • President
  • Political awareness

• Look, three love affairs in history, are Abelard and Eloise, Romeo and Juliet and the American media and this President at the moment. But this doesn't matter over time. Reality will impinge. If his programs work, he's fine. If it doesn't work, all of the adulation of journalists in the world won't matter.

  

  George Will
  • World
  • Love
  • Reality

• The only people who live in a post-black world are four people who live in a little white house on Pennsylvania Avenue. The idea that America is post-racial or post-black because a man I admire, Barack Obama, is president of the United States, is a joke. And I hope no one will even wonder about this crazy fiction again.

  

  Henry Louis Gates
  • People
  • World
  • Men

• Some people thought we were presenting Archie as a false character. President Nixon thought we were making a fool out of a good man.

  

  Carroll O'Connor
  • Character
  • President
  • Presenting

• All the president is, is a glorified public relations man who spends his time flattering, kissing, and kicking people to get them to do what they are supposed to do anyway.

  

  Harry S Truman
  • President
  • Public relations man

• Like so much of President Obama's decisions over the past six years, this is another photo-op with a compliant press that does not matter and will do little.

  

  Erick Erickson
  • Decision
  • Littles
  • Obama

• We cannot afford four more years of this misguided socialist policies from President Obama and his administration.

  

  Rick Perry
  • President
  • Policy
  • Administration

• Nixon was a good president on the environment. Gerald Ford was good.

  

  Stewart Udall
  • Environment
  • President

• I would feel safe with my husband as president. I think Barack Obama is a fine man. I think Michelle Obama is a fine woman. This is about who would be better and I think my husband would be better.

  

  Cindy McCain
  • Feels
  • Husband
  • Safe

• Unlike President Obama, President Nixon was a capitalist who did not believe in 'remaking' the very character of America.

  

  Monica Crowley
  • America
  • President
  • Capitalist

• President Bush is often out there talking about the importance of staying the course, and about the sacrifice, but he has not attended a funeral of a soldier who has fallen in Iraq.

  

  Dana Milbank
  • Talking
  • Soldier
  • Importance

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