When Reagan left office, he was the most unpopular living president, apart from Nixon, even below Carter. If you look at his years in office, he was not particularly popular. He was more or less average. He severely harmed the American economy.
Noam ChomskyThe President’s post should not be politicised. Once a president is elected, he is above politics.
A. P. J. Abdul KalamThere is nothing more dangerous than the conscience of a bigot.
George Bernard ShawIn America the President reigns for four years, and Journalism governs forever and ever.
Oscar WildeIntolerance betrays want of faith in one’s cause.
Mahatma GandhiA master performer like Bill Clinton never lost sight of the fact that as president he had to project confidence and power, but if he was speaking to a group of autoworkers he would adjust his accent and his words to fit the audience, and do the same for a group of executives.
Robert GreeneThe 1928 Republican Convention opened with a prayer. If the Lord can see His way clear to bless the Republican Party the way it’s been carrying on, then the rest of us ought to get it without even asking.
Will RogersI think that a president needs to have a variety of views presented. But also, there has to be a team effort, because otherwise, I think it creates a dissonance and difficulty.
Madeleine AlbrightYou know I vowed when I became President not to talk about the loneliest toughest job in the world and I didn’t.
George H. W. BushI’m the president of the United States. I’m not the emperor of the United States.
Barack ObamaThe thought of being President frightens me and I do not think I want the job.
Ronald ReaganI would put our legislative and foreign policy accomplishments in our first two years against any president – with the possible exceptions of Johnson, FDR, and Lincoln – just in terms of what we’ve gotten done in modern history. But, you know, but when it comes to the economy, we’ve got a lot more work to do. And we’re gonna keep on at it.
Barack ObamaI can die a happy man never having been president of the United States of America. But it doesn’t mean I won’t run.
Joe BidenThat’s the good thing about being president, I can do whatever I want.
Barack ObamaIt is the duty of the President to propose and it is the privilege of the Congress to dispose.
Franklin D. RooseveltTo announce that there must be no criticism of the president… is morally treasonable to the American public.
Theodore RooseveltIntolerance is itself a form of violence and an obstacle to the growth of a true democratic spirit.
Mahatma GandhiYou’re president, if you conclude my judgment is not the right judgment, I abide by that, but I want an opportunity to have an input.
Joe BidenIt is important that the United States remain a two-party system. I’m a fellow who likes small parties and the Republican Party can’t be too small to suit me.
Lyndon B. JohnsonI’ve used the prestige and influence of having been a president of the United States as effectively as possible. And secondly, I’ve still been able to carry out my commitments to peace and human rights and environmental quality and freedom and democracy and so forth.
Jimmy CarterOhio claims they are due a president as they haven’t had one since Taft. Look at the United States, they have not had one since Lincoln.
Will RogersSince I’m the president and Democrats have controlled the House and the Senate, it’s understandable that people are saying, you know, ‚What have you done?‘
Barack ObamaI had a soft-spot in my heart for Ronald Reagan, if only because he was a sportswriter in his youth.
Hunter S. ThompsonI’m asking myself, ‚What do my girls, what do all our children deserve in their president? What kind of a president do we want for them?‘ Well, to start with, I think we want someone who is a unifying force in this country: someone who sees our differences not as a threat, but as a blessing.
Michelle ObamaThere are some members of the House leadership whose only mission in life is to demonize the president.
John KennedyI’ve seen how the issues that come across a president’s desk are always the hard ones – the problems where no amount of data or numbers will get you to the right answer.
Michelle ObamaMy Democratic friends just can’t accept the fact that the American people chose Donald Trump to be president – it’s called democracy. My advice to them, and I say this gently: Fill out a ‚Hurt Feelings Report‘ and let’s move on.
John KennedyLook, when you’re the president, there’s all kinds of things said about us. I mean, it’s just the nature of the job.
George W. BushHow can we help President Obama?
Fidel CastroAll 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. TrumanBigotry is probably the thing I detest most.
J. K. RowlingPeople have got to know whether or not their president is a crook. Well, I’m not a crook. I earned everything I’ve got.
Richard M. NixonWell, when you come down to it, I don’t see that a reporter could do much to a president, do you?
Dwight D. EisenhowerThe New Deal repudiation of democracy has left the Republican Party alone the guardian of the Ark of the Covenant with its charter of freedom.
Herbert HooverThe American people are bigger than any president. I suppose I have faith in my country and in what it is founded on and the values we hold dear.
Angelina JolieI have Muslim members of my family. I have lived in Muslim countries.
Barack ObamaI’m no longer just a candidate. I’m the President. I know what it means to send young Americans into battle, for I have held in my arms the mothers and fathers of those who didn’t return. I’ve shared the pain of families who’ve lost their homes, and the frustration of workers who’ve lost their jobs.
Barack ObamaRemember, it is not about voting for the perfect candidate – there is no such thing. Presidents are human.
Michelle ObamaBigotry is the sacred disease.
HeraclitusIn my country we go to prison first and then become President.
Nelson MandelaI think when the president of the United States calls for military action, he should do it for a united people, especially when the methods have been so cruel, so explicitly directed at Americans.
Henry KissingerWhen you get to be President, there are all those things, the honors, the twenty-one gun salutes, all those things. You have to remember it isn’t for you. It’s for the Presidency.
Harry S. TrumanAs president, you can get all kinds of advice from all kinds of people. But at the end of the day, when it comes time to make that decision, as president, all you have to guide you are your values and your vision and the life experiences that make you who you are.
Michelle ObamaBarack Obama is probably the most exciting candidate that either the Democratic or Republican party has produced at least since I’ve been around. He’s fresh, he’s new, he’s insightful.
Joe BidenOne of the more difficult tasks for me as president was to decide on the issue of confirming capital punishment awarded by courts… to my surprise… almost all cases which were pending had a social and economic bias.
A. P. J. Abdul KalamI believed what my father taught me about the separation of church and state, so when I was President I never invited Billy Graham to have services in the White House because I didn’t think that was appropriate. He was injured a little bit, until I explained it to him.
Jimmy CarterA President needs political understanding to run the government, but he may be elected without it.
Harry S. TrumanOf all religions, the Christian should of course inspire the most tolerance, but until now Christians have been the most intolerant of all men.
VoltaireI think I’d be a better president because I was in combat.
George H. W. BushThe President is going to benefit from me reporting directly to him when I arrive.
Dan QuayleIs there something wrong with being a Muslim in this country? The answer’s no. That’s not America. Is there something wrong with some seven-year-old Muslim American kid believing that he or she could be president?
Colin PowellThe most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out… without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable.
H. L. MenckenI never will, by any word or act, bow to the shrine of intolerance or admit a right of inquiry into the religious opinions of others.
Thomas JeffersonUnder the doctrine of separation of powers, the manner in which the president personally exercises his assigned executive powers is not subject to questioning by another branch of government.
Richard M. NixonIf anyone is crazy enough to want to kill a president of the United States, he can do it. All he must be prepared to do is give his life for the president’s.
John F. KennedyI kept a very full diary of my relationship with Nixon, for some strange reason, until he became president.
Billy GrahamSome years ago I became president of Columbia University and learned within 24 hours to be ready to speak at the drop of a hat, and I learned something more, the trustees were expected to be ready to speak at the passing of the hat.
Dwight D. EisenhowerThere’s nothing in the Constitution that says the President stops being President in his last year.
Ruth Bader GinsburgI can say with confidence there has never been a man or a woman – not me, not Bill, nobody – more qualified than Hillary Clinton to serve as president of the United States of America.
Barack ObamaThere’s always an element of self delusion among people who believe they ought to be President. There’s an underestimation of your opponent and an overestimation of your own abilities. This is compatible with being rich and powerful, the idea that we were blessed by God because we deserve to be blessed.
Jimmy Carter