Presidency Quotes

When you get to be President, there are all those things, the honors, the twenty-one gun salutes, all those things. You have to remember it isn't for you. It's for the Presidency. (Harry S. Truman)
With me it is exceptionally true that the Presidency is no bed of roses. View quote
James K. Polk
Anybody that wants the presidency so much that he'll spend two years organizing and campaigning for it is not to be trusted with the office. View quote
David S. Broder
Few men in our history have ever obtained the Presidency by planning to obtain it. View quote
James A. Garfield
Take our politicians they're a bunch of yo-yos. The presidency is now a cross between a popularity contest and a high school debate, with an encyclopedia of cliches the first prize. View quote
Saul Bellow
The entire economy, of course, is locked in a down cycle right now. Last time we weathered this was during another Bush presidency in '90. We were locked in it for a year and a half and everyone came out of it. View quote
David Talbot
I teach at USC, and it's obvious to anyone who teaches college students that they don't cover much modern history and certainly not the modern presidency. View quote
Robert Scheer
Whatever he does should be seen as working at the Presidency and if he goes to Colorado for Christmas, it should be for a minimum amount of time, the family tradition and family get-together aspect emphasized, and it be seen as a working vacation. View quote
Robert Teeter
With our financial house on fire, Obama makes clear both in in his speech and his budget that the essence of his presidency will be the transformation of health care, education and energy. 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. View quote
Charles Krauthammer
In sum, the Court's conclusion that a constitutionally adequate recount is impractical is a prophecy the Court's own judgment will not allow to be tested. Such an untested prophecy should not decide the Presidency of the United States. I dissent. (Ruth Bader Ginsburg)
As to the presidency, the two happiest days of my life were those of my entrance upon the office and my surrender of it. View quote
Martin Van Buren
If the tide of defamation and abuse shall turn, and my administration come to be praised, future Vice-Presidents who may succeed to the Presidency may feel some slight encouragement to pursue an independent course. View quote
John Tyler
I'm very familiar with the importance of dairy farming in Wisconsin. I've spent the night on a dairy farm here in Wisconsin. If I'm entrusted with the presidency, you'll have someone who is very familiar with what the Wisconsin dairy industry is all about. View quote
Al Gore
The presidency is more than a popularity contest. View quote
Al Gore
George W. Bush did a incredible job in the presidency, defending us from freedom. View quote
Rick Perry
I had a truly horrible dream last night ... [Arnold Schwarzenegger, Mike Tyson and I] were on our way to a TV studio for a debate about his long-time working friendship with the powerful Bush family from Texas and how it might affect the next Bush presidency when The Terminator seizes power in Sacramento and tries to hand over the state's 54 electoral votes by election day in 2004. That is the basic plan behind Schwarzenegger running. He doesn't want to be Governor, he just wants the electoral votes to go to Bush this time. View quote
Hunter S. Thompson
I never wanted to get out of a place as much as I did to get out of the presidency. View quote
Ulysses S. Grant
Nobody ever left the presidency with less regret, less disappointment, fewer heart burnings, or any general content with the result of his term (in his own heart, I mean) than I do. Full of difficulty and trouble at first, I now find myself on smooth waters and under bright skies. View quote
Rutherford B. Hayes
My fellow citizens, the American Presidency is not supposed to be a journey of personal discovery. View quote
Sarah Palin
We have a president who stole the presidency through family ties, arrogance and intimidation, employing Republican operatives to exercise the tactics of voter fraud by disenfranchising thousands of blacks, elderly Jews and other minorities. (Barbra Streisand)
I don't think that the United States are ready for a presidency as the one of Obama, at least because he would be the first black president. View quote
Gianfranco Fini
You can always get the truth from an American statesman after he has turned seventy, or given up all hope of the Presidency. View quote
Wendell Phillips
Reagan is the only man to take the presidency as a part-time job, a means of filling up the otherwise empty hours of retirement. View quote
Simon Hoggart
Transparency and the rule of law will be the touchstones of this presidency. View quote
Barack Obama