Quotes
Quotes about President
I had rather be right than be President.
When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it.
Oh, great. This is going to be like shooting baskets with Magic Johnson watching. [On watching Independence Day with President Clinton]
President Sadat was killed by an extremist Muslim President Rabin was killed by an extremist Jew Mahatma Gandhi was killed by an extremist Hindu at Cleveland City Club.. (to which could be added: Many American soldiers have been killed by extremist Christians).
CONSIDERING THE VOID When I behold the charm of evening skies, their lulling endurance; the patterns of stars with names of bears and dogs, a swan, a virgin; other planets that the Voyager showed were like and so unlike our own, with all their diverse moons, bright discs, weird rings, and cratered faces; comets with their streaming tails bent by pressure from our sun; the skyscape of our Milky Way holding in its shimmering disc an infinity of suns (or say a thousand billion); knowing there are holes of darkness gulping mass and even light, knowing that this galaxy of ours is one of multitudes in what we call the heavens, it troubles me. It troubles me. -President Jimmy Carter- (he has written a volume of poetry as well as a novel, The Hornet's Nest, about the Revolutionary War).
If nominated, I will not run; if elected, I will not serve. - On the request that he accept the Republican presidential nomination.
The office of president is a bastardized thing, half royalty and half democracy, that nobody knows whether to genuflect or spit.
You really have to experience the feeling of being with the president in the oval office. ... It's a disease I came to call Ovalitis.
When you're a lawyer, you expect your client to lie to you, but not when he is the president.
I have a fantasy where Ted Turner is elected President but refuses because he doesn't want to give up power.
Beguiled by George S. Bush's easy smile and casual indifference to the details, we are on the brink of electing him to office. This isn't choosing a president, it's casting the lead in a sitcom about the presidency.
When I talked to him on the phone yesterday. I called him George rather than Mr. Vice President. But, in public, it's Mr. Vice President, because that is who he is.
The United States brags about its political system, but the President says one thing during the election, something else when he takes office, something else at midterm and something else when he leaves.
I think there is one higher office than president and I would call that patriot.
Welcome to President Bush, Mrs. Bush, and my fellow astronauts.
This election is about who's going to be the next President of the United States!
I'm going to be a vice president very much like George Bush was. He proved to be a very effective vice president, perhaps the most effective we've had in a couple of hundred years.
The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have to shave twice a day.
It is long past time that the President and this Administration show its evidence. . .Today, we are introducing a Resolution of Inquiry to compel the White House to substantiate its claims. The President led the nation to war, and spent at least $63 billion on that war, on the basis of these unfounded assertions. @ Rep. Dennis Kucinich http://www.kucinich.us.
This current administration cannot even bring home a soldier from Iraq and they talk about putting a man on the moon.. didn't the Democrats whose candidates were elected in the last 3 presidential elections do that?
All the president is, is a glorified public relations man who spends his time flattering, kissing, and kicking people to get them to do what they are supposed to do anyway.
We have to do more than just elect a new President if we truly want to change this country.
Sir, I would rather be right than be President.
The crime bill passed by the Senate would reinstate the Federal death penalty for certain violent crimes: assassinating the President; hijacking an airliner; and murdering a government poultry inspector.
You must pursue this investigation of Watergate even if it leads to the president. I'm innocent. You've got to believe I'm innocent. If you don't, take my job.
