Browsing Topic Best President Quotes

Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president.

However [political parties] may now and then answer popular ends, they are likely in the course of time and things, to become potent engines, by which cunning, ambitious, and unprincipled men will be enabled to subvert the power of the people and to usurp for themselves the reins of government, destroying afterwards the very engines which have lifted them to unjust dominion.

In America, anyone can become president. That’s the problem.

It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the clouds of war, it is humanity hanging on a cross of iron.

We are the ones we have been waiting for.

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 really do hope that we have a woman president in my lifetime.

Typically in politics it is easier for the left to mobilize against a Republican president than it is to mobilize against a Democratic president, even in the cases when the Republican president or Democratic president are pushing the same exact thing.

Do not, brethren, put your trust in man though he be a bishop, an apostle, or a president. If you do, they will fail you at some time or place; they will do wrong or seem to, and your support be gone.

My fellow Americans, this is an amazing moment for me. To think that a once-scrawny boy from Austria could grow up to become governor of the state of California and then stand here… then stand here in Madison Square Garden and speak on behalf of the president of the United States – that is an immigrant’s dream. It is the American dream.

What we Americans go through to pick a president is not only crazy and unnecessary but genuinely abusive. Hundreds of millions of dollars are spent in a craven, cynical effort to stir up hatred and anger on both sides.

I have a fantasy where Ted Turner is elected President but refuses because he doesn’t want to give up power.

When from behind me, a young woman of 25 uttered the following, it was the dumbest thing I have ever heard in my life until Dan Quayle was elected Vice President of the United States. She said, if it weren’t for my horse, I wouldn’t have spent that year in college.

I thanked the President [George W. Bush] for the steadfastness and resolve with which he’s tackling the very complicated problems in the Middle East and Iraq, as well as the Israel-Palestinian issue…. It’s critical for us in Southeast Asia that America does that…. because it affects America’s standing in Asia and the world, and also the security environment in Asia because extremists, the jihadists, watch carefully what’s happening in the Middle East and take heart, or lose heart, depending on what’s happening.

What is the environmental policy of the Republican Party? When I ask that question, I get a blank stare, if I’m president of the United States, we’re going to address climate change and CO2 emissions in a business-friendly way.

Part of what makes America strong is our resilience, tenacity, innovation and our willingness to be optimistic about our future. I know that President Obama is absolutely the best president to lead our country in the right direction.

Once elected, the President ‘forgets’ all about his promises.

‘American Sniper’ is a movie whose politics are so ludicrous and idiotic that under normal circumstances it would be beneath criticism. The only thing that forces us to take it seriously is the extraordinary fact that an almost exactly similar worldview consumed the walnut-sized mind of the president who got us into the war in question.

Be practical as well as generous in your ideals. Keep your eyes on the stars, but remember to keep your feet on the ground.

I think President [Barack] Obama deeply underestimated the force of white supremacy in American life.

Refuse to accept the narrative of history laid down by presidents, prime ministers, generals and journalists.

Only nut cases want to be president. This was true even in high school. Only clearly disturbed people ran for class president.

I’m trying to think of – knock on wood – how young people would feel today if our president and our leaders were shot at. But… our young people are being killed at an astonishing rate, and times seem dark.

Grow up, Donald Trump. Grow up. Time to be an adult. You’re president. You gotta do something. Show us what you have.

The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home.

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

I beg young people to travel. If you don’t have a passport, get one. Take a summer, get a backpack and go to Delhi, go to Saigon, go to Bangkok, go to Kenya. Have your mind blown. Eat interesting food. Dig some interesting people. Have an adventure. Be careful. Come back and you’re going to see your country differently, you’re going to see your president differently, no matter who it is. Music, culture, food, water. Your showers will become shorter. You’re going to get a sense of what globalization looks like.

There will be great presidents again but there will never be another Camelot.

Americans have been dumbed down to the point where more people watching ‘American Idol’ than listen to the state of the union address. And that’s too bad. I’m not trying to take any bread out of the mouth of Simon Cowell, but if the president is speaking to the people of the United States, and people are going to watch ‘American Idol,’ that’s sad.

There have been many amazing Presidents in American history, including George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Dwight Eisenhower and Ronald Reagan, all of whom I greatly admire.

I don’t think you can run for president or be president unless you’re a busy person.

I am not ashamed to be a Christian, and I am glad to know that the President of the United States is a Christian, for without the help of the Almighty I do not think he could rightly judge in ruling so many people. I have advised all of my people who are not Christians, to study that religion, because it seems to me the best religion in enabling one to live right.

I do not like broccoli. And I haven’t liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it. And I’m President of the United States and I’m not going to eat any more broccoli.