President Quotes - page 4

Any man who wants to be president is either an egomaniac or crazy. (Dwight D. Eisenhower)
Thomas Jefferson once said, 'We should never judge a president by his age, only by his works.' And ever since he told me that, I stopped worrying. View quote
Ronald Reagan
I thought Nixon was the worst President we had ever had, save only perhaps Andrew Johnson. View quote
Stephen Ambrose
Washington's character was rock solid. He came to stand for the new nation and its republican virtues, which was why he became our first President by unanimous choice. View quote
Stephen Ambrose
My fate is to be President of the Republic - or leader of the opposition. View quote
Georges Pompidou
Actually, today I had to defend the Bush Administration in France again. They refuse to accept, because of their political ideology, that he has actually done more than any American President for Africa. But it's empirically so. View quote
Bob Geldof
Apparently Arnold was inspired by President Bush, who proved you can be a successful politician in this country even if English is your second language. View quote
Conan O'Brien
President Bush has a record of cutting taxes, has provided a prescription drug benefit for seniors, has upheld the Second Amendment and remains committed to stopping liberal activists judges who are redefining marriage. View quote
Bill Shuster
We had kind of a rocky start, but I spent a lot of time working with the President and handing him statistics and showing him what we were doing as we went along and kind of saying to him, you know, this is really important. View quote
Bruce Babbitt
We need a president who's fluent in at least one language. View quote
Buck Henry
The Emancipation Proclamation, signed by President Abraham Lincoln, was put into effect on January 1, 1863, but news of the Proclamation and enforcement did not reach Texas until after the end of the Civil War almost two years later. (Corrine Brown)
I came at age in the '60s, and initially my hopes and dreams were invested in politics and the movements of the time - the anti-war movement, the civil rights movement. I worked on Bobby Kennedy's campaign for president as a teenager in California and the night he was killed. View quote
David Talbot
When you look at where the Democratic field is going relative to foreign policy, they are increasingly moving away from a policy of pre-emptive self-defense that the president has adopted since September 11. View quote
Ed Gillespie
We are seeing at the Republican National Committee a phenomenon that is worth noting this week; maybe today, maybe tomorrow, maybe Wednesday, we will have a million first time donors since the president took office. View quote
Ed Gillespie
I don't want to be disrespectful of the president of the United States, but as a political person, one of the things I appreciated about this president, in the past year especially, is he is a fantastic candidate. View quote
Ed Gillespie
In Uzbekistan, hundreds of protesters were recently killed under the corrupt regime of President Karimov in what human rights groups are calling a massacre. View quote
Ed Markey
I'd like President Bush to think maybe there's another way to think, that maybe Kissinger was wrong when he says we had to go in there because he was wrong about Vietnam. View quote
F. Murray Abraham
Vice president - it has such a nice ring to it! View quote
Geraldine Ferraro
The last president we had was the smartest guy anyone could remember and he did the dumbest thing anyone has ever seen in the White House so go figure. View quote
Harry Shearer
President George W. Bush is the first American president to call openly for two-states, Israel and Palestine, living side by side in peace and security. View quote
Lee H. Hamilton
The president has been a true friend of the ag industry, because he continues to invest large amounts of money at a time when savings is really the goal of the federal government to deal with the deficit. (Mike Johanns)
A salute from this corner to President Bush for saying he was willing to investigate raising or eliminating the cap on salaries subject to the Social Security tax. View quote
Nick Clooney
Usually, those persons closest to the incoming President will be the main leaders of the Transition effort. They are most familiar with his policies and practices, and are able to interpret his wishes regarding the structure and staffing of the new Administration. View quote
Richard V. Allen
I would argue that the next President, either Bush or Gore, should strike a 'national' posture, exhibiting generosity toward the defeated opponent, but proceeding with determination to implement an agenda. View quote
Richard V. Allen
I was able to do something that people can't do these days, which is to have quality time with the guys who were trying to be president and a number of them who got the job. View quote
Robert Scheer