President Quotes - page 5

After the Great Depression and after public urging, a nationwide public competition was held to determine a design for a memorial that would honor President Thomas Jefferson's bold vision for westward expansion for America. (Russ Carnahan)
Clinton was a president who used his office, in creative ways, to try to reinvigorate the federal government to benefit the majority. View quote
Sidney Blumenthal
For example, a man who might not have enormous charisma, who could be president 40 years ago, and who was a deserving president, I don't know that George Washington would be a president today, I don't know that Abe Lincoln would, I don't know that Roosevelt would. View quote
Sydney Pollack
President Obama is not polarizing, but the media sure is. View quote
Yousef Munayyer
I didn't decide to run for president to start a national crusade for the political reforms I believed in, or to run a campaign as if it were some grand act of patriotism. In truth, I wanted to be president because it had become my ambition to be president. View quote
John McCain
Let me say that no one has supported President Bush on Iraq more than I have. View quote
John McCain
The president, comparing him to a kid in the back of a classroom, I think, is very indicative of the president's lack of appreciation of who Vladimir Putin is. He's an old KGB colonel that has no illusions about our relationship, does not care about a relationship with the United States, continues to oppress his people, continues to act in an autocratic fashion. View quote
John McCain
As part of Social Security reform, I believe that private savings accounts are a part of it - along the lines that President Bush proposed. View quote
John McCain
To be President of the United States, sir, is to act as advocate for a blind, venomous, and ungrateful client. View quote
John Updike
An oil crisis looms, prices are spiking - and our president is extolling algae. After Solyndra, Keystone and promises of seaweed in their gas tanks, Americans sense a president so ideologically antipathetic to fossil fuels - which we possess in staggering abundance - that he is utterly unserious about the real world of oil in which the rest of us live. View quote
Charles Krauthammer
What made Obama unique was that he was the ultimate charismatic politician -- the most unknown stranger ever to achieve the presidency in the United States. No one knew who he was, he came out of nowhere, he had this incredible persona that floated him above the fray, destroyed Hillary, took over the Democratic Party and became president. This is truly unprecedented: A young unknown with no history, no paper trail, no well-known associates, self-created. (Charles Krauthammer)
The one thing I have never been afraid of is standing before important people and speaking my mind. I represent women who may never have the opportunity to go to the UN or meet with a president. I'm never afraid to speak truth to power. View quote
Leymah Gbowee
A President cannot always be popular. View quote
Harry S. Truman
A president either is constantly on top of events or, if he hesitates, events will soon be on top of him. I never felt that I could let up for a moment. View quote
Harry S. Truman
The President is always abused. If he isn't, he isn't doing anything. View quote
Harry S. Truman
If I hadn't been President of the United States, I probably would have ended up a piano player in a bawdy house. View quote
Harry S. Truman
It sure is hell to be president. View quote
Harry S. Truman
I think it would be much better for the country and for (Clinton) personally (to resign). I come from the business side. If you had a chairman or president in the business world facing these allegations, he'd be gone. View quote
Mark Sanford
There never was yet a people who must not have somebody or something to represent the dignity of the state, the majesty of the people, call it what you will - a doge, an avoyer, an archon, a president, a consul, a syndic; this becomes at once an object of ambition and dispute, and, in time, of division, faction, sedition, and rebellion. View quote
John Adams
No president who performs his duties faithfully and conscientiously can have any leisure. View quote
James K. Polk
The First Amendment and Fourteenth Amendment rights in the United States Constitution were being violated in Albany again and again - freedom of speech, freedom of assembly, the equal protection of the laws - I could count at least 30 such violations. Yet the president, sworn to uphold the Constitution, and all the agencies of the United States government at his disposal, were nowhere to be seen. (Howard Zinn)
Honestly, I think we should just trust our president in every decision he makes and should just support that, you know, and be faithful in what happens. View quote
Britney Spears
I thank you for your kind invitation to introduce me to the president of the Republic. Since I have not been out of my atelier for two months, I have no appropriate costume for this circumstance. Please excuse me. View quote
Camille Claudel
I am the last President of the United States! View quote
James Buchanan
A president can be as strong as she wants to be. View quote
Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo