President Quotes

We have a serious structural deficit problem. And it needs to be addressed. The president is trying to address it through reforms of Social Security, but the problem is there with other entitlement programs like Medicare and Medicaid.

President Johnson and I have a lot in common. We were both born in small towns and we're both fortunate in the fact that we think we married above ourselves.

You know, one of the things I think you understand as president is you're held responsible for everything, but you don't always have control of everything, right?

I look forward to these confrontations with the press to kind of balance up the nice and pleasant things that come to me as president.

I am ready and prepared to work with the President, but I will not be a rubber stamp for any president.

Of 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.

Because of the president's leadership, every American will have access to affordable, quality health care.

President Obama could keep a big map with push pins on it to keep track of how many countries hate us, and when we get down to only half, let's have a ball. I'll blow up the balloons myself.

It's clear enough that there was substantial fraud in Ohio, thus delivering the Electoral College vote for President Bush.

Well, it really describes what it feels like to be a normal person whose boss and friend suddenly runs for the president, and then becomes the president.

Only the aspirants for president are fool enough to believe what they read in the newspapers.

Well, I think the reality is that as you study - when President Kennedy cut marginal tax rates, when Ronald Reagan cut marginal tax rates, when President Bush imposed those tax cuts, they actually generated economic growth. They expanded the economy. They expand tax revenues.

Americans have been given goals to achieve in Iraq, but not the standards by which to measure progress. And the only assurance Americans have been given that we can reach those goals is to trust the President and his Administration at their word.

Every president needs to deal with the permanent government of the country, and the permanent government of the country is Wall Street oligarchs and corporate plutocrats and the questions becomes what is the relationship between that president and Wall Street.

President Obama is the most successful food stamp president in American history. I would like to be the most successful paycheck president in American history.

Has President Bush exceeded his constitutional authority or acted illegally in authorizing wiretaps without a warrant? Benjamin Franklin would not have thought so.

One could see that what you are writing was that today's meeting with President Bill Clinton was going to be a disaster. Now, for the first time, I can tell you that you are a disaster.

Under the leadership of President Bush and Vice President Cheney, the United States has given up the moral high ground that we used to occupy as an international leader.

President Obama still places far too much emphasis on relentless testing with standardized exams.

As his vice president for eight years, I learned more from Ronald Reagan than from anyone I encountered in all my years of public life.

President Obama is now losing to 'Republican Nominee' in polls - no name needed.

Like Odysseus, the President looked wiser when he was seated.

You are the first President to whom the opportunity was ever offered constitutionally to inaugurate such a day. If you fail us now, you may be the last.

Taxes are important. President Bush's tax proposals leave no rich person behind. Voters approve of President Bush helping the kind of people they wish they were one of.

My favourite president, and the one I admired most, was Harry Truman.

In my opinion eight years as president is enough and sometimes too much for any man to serve in that capacity.

The fine print in the President's Social Security proposal is that all present and future workers under age 55 will have their promised retirement benefits cut.

As 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.

I don't think anybody can take the word of Saddam Hussein and his regime, and certainly an American president and allies who are obligated to worry about the safety and security of our countries, cannot take the word of this dictator, who lies, pathologically lies.

I think what people are looking for right now is not the kind of pizzazz and pop that perhaps we thought we got in 2008. Certainly, President Obama offered that. What they want now is someone who can work closely with Congress and get things done.