President Quotes
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Now you have heard the managers' vision ... But I believe their vision to be too dark... I believe it to be a vision more focused on retribution, more designed to achieve partisan ends, ... Our vision, I think, is quite different, but it is not naive. We know the pain the president has caused our society and his family and his friends, but we know, too, how much the president has done for this country.
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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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I read that my lifelong dream is to serve as speaker with Hillary Clinton as president. So what?
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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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That conversations both with the President and among senior advisors, including the First Lady, are protected by executive privilege.
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People do make a distinction between what someone does in his personal life and his ability to do his job. However, if this involved perjury or obstruction of justice, which speaks to his role as president, the public has not come to any conclusion on that yet.
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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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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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Some day I shall be President.
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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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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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Iran has to live up to its international obligations. . . . The president has said that our patience is not unlimited.
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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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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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George W. Bush is not only a great president; he was a great candidate.
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The House of Representatives has never sued a sitting president in all of U.S. history.
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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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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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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'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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This isn't about more power for the president. It's about more votes for Newt Gingrich, and that's the last thing America needs.
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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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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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Just so you know, we're ashamed the president of the United States is from Texas.
