President Quotes

Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so.

We need people out talking about the President, explaining, agreeing with and praising his actions.

What we won when all of our people united must not be lost in suspicion and distrust and selfishness and politics. Accordingly, I shall not seek, and I will not accept, the nomination of my party for another term as president.

The most enduring legacy of President Barack Obama is going to be a new generation of leaders standing up for liberty.

I was worried about my mom more than I was worried about the president. And then I was worried about the president, and then I was worried about myself.

I believe that Clinton is the most wicked and vile President that this nation has ever had.

President Reagan was a leader at a time when the American people most needed leadership. He outlined a vision that captured the imagination of the free world, a vision that toppled the Communist empire and freed countless millions.

The president welcomes peaceful protests - it is a time-honored tradition. The president agrees violence is not the answer in Iraq, and that's why he hopes Saddam Hussein will disarm.

More than five million seniors have already saved money on their prescription drugs, and almost 33 million have benefited from free preventive services. The president cracked down hard on Medicare and health care fraud, recovering a record-breaking $10.7 billion over the last three years, protecting our seniors. That's what change looks like.

President Bush will come here and there will be new "friends" of America to open a new relationship with the world, new economic fortunes for those who "liberated" them.

I've had a terrific life, from building one company to be the second largest company in the securities industry and merging that into American Express, and becoming president of that company.

I had to perform at the White House for the president, That's always kind of a weird set to try to put together.

We can't have cellphones, TV, radio or the Internet. If the president died, we'd have no idea. There's no normalcy. It's just like prison, with cameras.

Any man who wants to be president is either an egomaniac or crazy.

I also hear your president say that war is the means of last resort and I think he means that. I met him last autumn and he assured me that they wanted to come through and disarm Iraq by peaceful means, and that's what we are trying to do as hard as we can.

Not too many years ago, both parties acknowledged that our entitlement commitments were a sword hanging over our heads. But when President George W. Bush tried to begin discussions on Social Security reform, Democrats ridiculed and demonized him and told seniors he was after their nest eggs.

My children were born into this. They will always be the grandchildren of the President and First Lady of the United States.

The one thing that the President can do is to establish a real energy independence plan. We have all the recources we need right here in this country to establish energy independence if we had the leadership.

I must say I am not pleased to have to arrange the Senate schedule around the availability of Senators who are running for President.

If you're an entrepreneur and you think that the president makes a difference to your business, you should stay at your current job.

Again and again, I've seen Bush turn a blind eye as his henchmen have leveled zealous attacks against his political enemies - assaults which the president himself has sometimes directly encouraged.

It appears that President Obama is making great progress on climate change, he is changing the political climate in the country back to Republican.

President Obama has admitted that Medicare is on an unsustainable course and that no amount of tax increases can fix it.

I'm just a newsboy who met a President.

Children today will grow up taking for granted that an African-American or a woman can, yes, become the president of the United States.

I support the president 100 percent - when he's right.

I couldn't be happier that President Bush has stood up for having served in the National Guard, because I can finally put an end to all those who questioned my motives for enlisting in the Army Reserve at the height of the Vietnam War.

Things happen in American politics in the political center. If the President will meet us in the center, there are things we can accomplish.

President Obama clearly cannot run on his record. All he's offering is more of the same. That's not good. Look at the economy. It's stagnating. And so, what they're now going to try and do is bring this campaign down to little things, distractions, distortions, smear, fear, anger, frustration.

With Barack Obama as president and the super-happening Michelle Obama as First Lady, you would think a new tone, a new tune, a kicky new jazzitude, would have entered Washington discourse, but it remains a landlocked island unto itself, held captive by its tribal fevers.