President Quotes - page 9

Yet we slink about like whipped curs ... our self-abasement principally takes the form of subservience to the United States ... we are under no necessity to participate in the American nightmare of a Soviet monster barely held at bay in all quarters of the globe by an inconceivable nuclear armament and by political intervention everywhere from Poland to Cambodia. It is the Americans who need us in order to act out their crazy scenario... We simply do not need to go chasing up and down after the vagaries of the next ignoramus to become President of the United States. (Enoch Powell)
Former US president, drug baron and pedophile, George Herbert Walker Bush, incidentally, is mentioned more than any other person in my experience in relation to shape-shifting. View quote
David Icke
One trouble with living beyond your deserved number of years is that there's always some reason to live another year. And I'd like to live another year so that Nixon won't be President. If he's re-elected I'll have to live another four years. View quote
Rex Stout
Barry Goldwater once said, "I'd rather be right than president." I can't tell you how much I disagree with that Barry Goldwater. View quote
Howard Dean
The president and his right-wing Supreme Court think it is 'okay' to have the government take your house if they feel like putting a hotel where your house is. View quote
Howard Dean
I don't think any President ever enjoyed himself more than I did. Moreover, I don't think any ex-President ever enjoyed himself more. View quote
Theodore Roosevelt
Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president or any other public official. View quote
Theodore Roosevelt
If you see the President, tell him from me that whatever happens there will be no turning back. View quote
Ulysses S. Grant
Mr. President, call the toady of American imperialism to order. View quote
Nikita Khrushchev
The president and others say that if we leave, it will just be chaos in Iraq. Well, right now when you come to Iraq, you can't even drive from the airport to the Green Zone. View quote
Russ Feingold
The President cannot make clouds to rain and cannot make the corn to grow, he cannot make business good; although when these things occur, political parties do claim some credit for the good things that have happened in this way. (William Howard Taft)
The truth is that in my present life I don't remember that I ever was president. View quote
William Howard Taft
The President of the United States of necessity owes his election to office to the suffrage and zealous labors of a political party, the members of which cherish with ardor and regard as of essential importance the principles of their party organization; but he should strive to be always mindful of the fact that he serves his party best who serves the country best. View quote
Rutherford B. Hayes
The President of the United States should strive to be always mindful of the fact that he serves his party best who serves his country best. View quote
Rutherford B. Hayes
People tell me, 'Bill, let it go. The Kennedy assassination was years ago. It was just the assassination of a President and the hijacking of our government by a totalitarian regime - who cares? Just let it go.' I say, 'All right then. That whole Jesus thing? Let it go! It was 2,000 years ago! Who cares?' View quote
Bill Hicks
Lying is forbidden in Iraq. President Saddam Hussein will tolerate nothing but truthfulness as he is a man of great honour and integrity. Everyone is encouraged to speak freely of the truths evidenced in their eyes and hearts. View quote
Muhammad Saeed al-Sahhaf
[Speaking of Chinese president Sun Yat-sen] ...combined Benjamin Franklin and George Washington of China. View quote
Calvin Coolidge
I do not choose to run for President in 1928. View quote
Calvin Coolidge
The words of a President have an enormous weight and ought not to be used indiscriminately. View quote
Calvin Coolidge
I would suggest respectfully to the president that he is not the sole decider. The decider is a shared and joint responsibility. View quote
Arlen Specter
I took an oath of office to the Constitution, I didn't take an oath of office to my party or my president. (Chuck Hagel)
After the Shah's departure from Iran, I will not become a president nor accept any other leadership role. Just like before, I limit my activities only to guiding and directing the people. View quote
Ruhollah Khomeini
There are people who say that "Gül can't be my president". These people don't have good manners for and they should renounce their Turkish citizenship foremost this man will be chosen democratically by the people. View quote
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan
I feel like I could run for President. People often laugh, but if I set my mind to it, within the next 15 years I could be in the White House. View quote
Will Smith
Being on President Nixon's enemies list was the highest single honor I've ever received. Who knows who's listening to me now and what government list I'm on? View quote
Paul Newman