My 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 KennedyA president has an inescapable responsibility to provide direction: What are we trying to achieve? What are we trying to prevent? Why? To do that, he has to both analyze and reflect.
Henry KissingerIn my country we go to prison first and then become President.
Nelson MandelaIs 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 PowellI’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 ObamaI’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 ObamaThe man with the best job in the country is the vice-president. All he has to do is get up every morning and say, ‚How is the president?‘
Will RogersPeople 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. NixonI’m the president of the United States. I’m not the emperor of the United States.
Barack ObamaAs president, Reagan worked very well with Democrats to do big things. It is true that he worked to reduce the size of government and cut federal taxes and he eliminated many regulations, but he also raised taxes when necessary.
Arnold SchwarzeneggerYou must pursue this investigation of Watergate even if it leads to the president. I’m innocent. You’ve got to believe I’m innocent. If you don’t, take my job.
Richard M. NixonIt is the duty of the President to propose and it is the privilege of the Congress to dispose.
Franklin D. RooseveltOhio 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 RogersHow can we help President Obama?
Fidel CastroThere is but one way for a president to deal with Congress, and that is continuously, incessantly, and without interruption. If it is really going to work, the relationship has got to be almost incestuous.
Lyndon B. JohnsonA president can ask for reconciliation in the racial conflict that divides Americans. But reconciliation comes only from the hearts of people.
Richard M. NixonI spend a great deal of time with the President. We have a very close, personal, loyal relationship. I’m not, as they say, a potted plant in these meetings.
Dan QuayleThis election is about who’s going to be the next President of the United States!
Dan QuayleWhen you are president, being able to clearly articulate detailed plans to help the people of this country is a good thing. Knowing what you’re doing is a good thing. And let me tell you, Hillary Clinton absolutely knows what she’s doing.
Michelle ObamaIn my opinion eight years as president is enough and sometimes too much for any man to serve in that capacity.
Harry S. TrumanMothers all want their sons to grow up to be president, but they don’t want them to become politicians in the process.
John F. KennedyTo announce that there must be no criticism of the president… is morally treasonable to the American public.
Theodore RooseveltI’m the only president you’ve got.
Lyndon B. JohnsonThe President is not only the leader of a party, he is the President of the whole people. He must interpret the conscience of America. He must guide his conduct by the idealism of our people.
Herbert HooverOf all the men that have run for president in the twentieth century, only George McGovern truly understood what a monument America could be to the human race.
Hunter S. ThompsonAs president, I’m committed to making Washington work better and rebuilding the trust of the people who sent us here.
Barack ObamaI had very good support from Democrats and Republicans all throughout my administration. I had a very high batting average. We added more jobs per year in my four years than any other president since the Second World War.
Jimmy CarterWe don’t have to guess what Mitt Romney would have done if he were president. Because he told us. He said we should let foreclosures – and I quote – ‚hit the bottom‘ so the market could – I quote – ‚run its course.‘
Kamala HarrisA President cannot always be popular.
Harry S. TrumanI 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 AlbrightAll 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. TrumanA President’s hardest task is not to do what is right, but to know what is right.
Lyndon B. JohnsonI am mindful not only of preserving executive powers for myself, but for predecessors as well.
George W. BushIf one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read: ‚President Can’t Swim.‘
Lyndon B. JohnsonWe have to do more than just elect a new President if we truly want to change this country.
Dan QuayleI want a president who will teach our children that everyone in this country matters, a president who truly believes in the vision that our Founders put forth all those years ago that we are all created equal, each a beloved part of the great American story.
Michelle ObamaWhoever won’t fight when the President calls him, deserves to be kicked back in his hole and kept there.
Lyndon B. JohnsonThe President is always abused. If he isn’t, he isn’t doing anything.
Harry S. TrumanIf segregationists had their way, I would not be a member of the United States Senate today, I would not be a top contender to be president of the United States.
Kamala HarrisI am the Democratic Party’s candidate for president who happens also to be a Catholic. I do not speak for my church on public matters – and the church does not speak for me.
John F. KennedyYou should see what our Founding Fathers used to say to each other and in the early part of our nation. But what they were able to do, especially in Philadelphia in 1787, four months, they argued about what a House should be, what a Senate should be, the power of the president, the Congress, the Supreme Court. And they had to deal with slavery.
Colin PowellMy favourite president, and the one I admired most, was Harry Truman.
Jimmy CarterI 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 CarterDo I think faith will be an important part of being a good president? Yes, I do.
George W. BushOne of the finest statesmen of the present time is also a first-class scout, and that is Mr. Roosevelt, the late President of the United States of America.
Robert Baden-PowellI 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 KissingerSome 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. EisenhowerI believe in a president whose religious views are his own private affair, neither imposed by him upon the nation or imposed by the nation upon him as a condition to holding that office.
John F. KennedyLincoln said you cannot be President without spending some item on your knees. I have repeated that and a bunch of Atheists got all over me. Wait a minute. Does that mean that you cannot be President if you are an Atheist? I say yea that does mean that.
George H. W. BushI think it is important for Europe to understand that even though I am president and George Bush is not president, Al Qaeda is still a threat.
Barack ObamaWhat I worry about would be that you essentially have two chambers, the House and the Senate, but you have simply, majoritarian, absolute power on either side. And that’s just not what the founders intended.
Barack ObamaI was honoured when they asked me to appear at the president’s birthday rally in Madison Square Garden. There was like a hush over the whole place when I came on to sing ‚Happy Birthday,‘ like if I had been wearing a slip, I would have thought it was showing or something. I thought, ‚Oh, my gosh, what if no sound comes out!‘
Marilyn MonroeWhen I took over as president, I studied the Constitution, and the more I studied it, the more I realised that it does not prevent the president of India from giving the nation a vision. So when I went and presented this vision in Parliament and in legislative assemblies; everyone welcomed it, irrespective of party affiliations.
A. P. J. Abdul KalamI don’t like to see a president who is just out campaigning all year long or for the last four years. I’d like to see somebody who’s going in the office. In fact, I’d like to not see them because that way you’d be sure that they’d be working.
Clint EastwoodThe American people are entitled to see the president and to hear his views directly, and not to see him only through the press.
Richard M. NixonHow can a president not be an actor?
Ronald ReaganBeing president is like being a jackass in a hailstorm. There’s nothing to do but to stand there and take it.
Lyndon B. JohnsonA President needs political understanding to run the government, but he may be elected without it.
Harry S. TrumanRemember, it is not about voting for the perfect candidate – there is no such thing. Presidents are human.
Michelle ObamaSince 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 Obama