President Quotes

How can a president not be an actor? (Ronald Reagan)

Madam, I may be President of the United States, but my private life is nobody's damn business.

Chester A. Arthur

In America the President reigns for four years, and Journalism governs forever and ever.

Oscar Wilde

I can be President of the United States, or I can control Alice. I cannot possibly do both.

Theodore Roosevelt

Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.

Gore Vidal

When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President. I'm beginning to believe it.

Clarence Darrow

Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us. The ultimate rulers of our democracy are not a President and senators and congressmen and government officials, but the voters of this country.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

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

There is more selfishness and less principle among members of Congress, as well as others, than I had any conception [of], before I became President of the U. S.

James K. Polk

The most used phrase in my administration if I were to be President would be 'What the hell you mean we're out of missiles?'

Glenn Beck

In America any boy may become President and I suppose it's just one of the risks he takes. (Adlai Stevenson II)

I would rather be right than be President.

Henry Clay

There are blessed intervals when I forget by one means or another that I am President of the United States.

Woodrow Wilson

Your commanders have ordered you to storm the White House and to arrest me. But I as the elected President of Russia give you the order to turn your tanks and not to fight against your own people.

Boris Yeltsin

Welcome to President Bush, Mrs. Bush, and my fellow astronauts.

Dan Quayle

I have no further use for America. I wouldn't go back there if Jesus Christ was President.

Charlie Chaplin

Oh, when the President does it, that means that it is not illegal.

Richard Nixon

The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You don't blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the President. You realize that you control your own destiny.

Albert Ellis

It was settled by the Constitution, the laws, and the whole practice of the government that the entire executive power is vested in the President of the United States.

Andrew Jackson

As the age of television progresses the Reagans will be the rule, not the exception. To be perfect for television is all a President has to be these days.

Gore Vidal

The United States brags about its political system, but the [American] President says one thing during the election, something else when he takes office, something else at midterm and something else when he leaves. (Deng Xiaoping)

Be able to resign. It will improve your value to the President and do wonders for your performance.

Donald Rumsfeld

The president has very little effect on the economy. If you want to put blame or credit, the main person who influences the business cycle is the head of the Federal Reserve Bank.

Robert Fogel

Every president thinks that all information that comes to the White House is their private preserve after they all promise an open administration on the campaign trail, but some are more secretive than others. Some want to lock down everything.

Helen Thomas

This is the worst President ever. He George W. Bush is the worst President in all of American history.

Helen Thomas

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