President Quotes
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All presidents swear an oath to the Constitution to keep this country united, and when the country fell apart, Lincoln had to put it back together again, with a lot of help. But he bore total responsibility.
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The president of the United States, whoever it is, deserves a certain level of reverence and respect just because of the office he holds.
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The President is going to benefit from me reporting directly to him when I arrive.
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Some day I shall be President.
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Instead of sitting on the sidelines, President Obama has made it clear that the US is ready to lead a global effort to combat climate change.
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I'm the only American alive or dead who presided unhappily over the removal of a vice president and a president.
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There is nothing in the Constitution that authorizes or makes it the official duty of a president to have anything to do with criminal activities.
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Iran has to live up to its international obligations. . . . The president has said that our patience is not unlimited.
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That conversations both with the President and among senior advisors, including the First Lady, are protected by executive privilege.
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I read that my lifelong dream is to serve as speaker with Hillary Clinton as president. So what?
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If I had been in President Obama's shoes, I would have acted more decisively and strongly against ISIS.
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They sort of see Hillary Clinton as the status quo, more of the same, which is why the market is expected to rally should she become president. Donald Trump is more of the unknown. We could see an initial sell-off. Longer-term or midterm, their economic plans are very different.
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Do you ask the same questions about the trauma the nation suffers when you are removing a judge as when you are removing a president? ... That answer must be stunningly different when you are asked should the president of the United States be removed and the will of the electorate overturned.
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I wonder what it's like to be from a state that is spread across a few islands way out in the Pacific Ocean, only added to the United States in 1959. Not only that but to be the birthplace of America's first black president? Pretty cool, I bet.
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I've noticed that in the U.S., when the president hits the three-year mark in office, he goes into re-election campaigning.
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We live very wonderful, privileged lives, and we're very lucky and fortunate, but it doesn't mean we stop caring. With Brexit and everything, and then Donald Trump running for president, of course, we were like, "Is this really happening? No, of course not, it's never gonna happen." It's impossible to not affected by the craziness of the world.
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George W. Bush is not only a great president; he was a great candidate.
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I'm the president of the United States. I'm not the emperor of the United States.
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Meetings between Presidents, as you know, are supposed to be privileged. They're supposed to be confidential. They're supposed to allow the president and other leaders to have frank exchanges.
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President Barack Obama benefits from the shared experience and wisdom of top national security and foreign policy advisers, many of them career professionals.
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The president has a duty and a right to oversee the FBI, and you know, he properly delegate the law enforcement to the FBI and try to insulate it from politics. But that's not to curb the president's authority over the FBI. So if he wants to meet with the FBI and give his opinion or even talk about his hopes, if indeed, he said that, he has every right to do so.
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Carter is the best President the Soviet Union ever had.
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President Obama has continually put off the deadline for implementation of Obamacare thanks to hang-ups in the system.
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The problem is there are people in this country - maybe 10%, I don't know what the number, maybe 20% on a bad day - who want this President to have an asterisk next to his name in the history books, that he really wasn't President....They can't stand the idea that he is President, and a piece of it is racism. Not that somebody in one racial group doesn't like somebody in another racial group. So what? It is the sense that the white race must rule. That's what racism is. And they can't stand the idea that a man who is not white is President.
