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.

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

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.

And the reason that I was one of the first, not one of the last to be in opposition to the TPP is that American workers should not be forced to compete against people in Vietnam today making a minimum wage of $0.65 an hour. Look, what we have got to do is tell corporate America that they cannot continue to shut down. We’ve lost 60,000 factories since 2001. They’re going to start having to, if I’m president, invest in this country – not in China, not in Mexico.

As long as I’m president of the United States Iran will not get a nuclear weapon. I made that clear when I came into office.

One of the things you discover about being president is that there are all these rules and norms and laws and you got to pay attention to them.

During the 1999 debate over Permanent Normal Trade Relations with China President Bill Clinton said, ‘In opening the economy of China, the agreement will create unprecedented opportunities for American farmers, workers and companies to compete successfully in China’s market. WRONG: Our trade deficit with China has increased from $83 billion in 2001 to a record breaking $342 billion in 2014.

When you see how the President makes political or policy decisions, you see who he is. The essence of the Presidency is decision-making.

If you’re the president you only have two jobs: peace and money.

Jimmy Carter will go down in American history as ‘the president who lost Iran,’

I never thought we’d ever have a black president. President Obama has done such a tremendous job He just has been unable to get what he needs to be moved at the level it should be moved.

Associate with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation; for it is better to be alone than in bad company.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

‘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.

You can’t change Washington from the inside. You can only change it from the outside.

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

We do not build new Jewish communities in Samaria, Judea and Gaza. The United States has never accepted our building of communities or of the fence. Yet, I’ve managed to develop relations between Israel and the United States even though President Bush never supported settlements.

As president, I decided that a strong, confident America could advance our national security by engaging directly with the Iranian government. We’ve seen the results.

Mr. President, Mrs. Obama. There is a photograph of you [hugging] that went viral, became the most shared photograph in the history of Twitter. How do you keep the fire going?

Tayyip Erdo?an is megalomaniac President, he is not stable. He lives during the Ottoman era, he doesn’t live in the current time. He’s out of touch with the reality.

He (former President Gerald Ford) made it very clear that he did not agree with the reasons President Bush laid out for the war, namely the belief that there were weapons of mass destruction in Iraq or that there was some obligation that the United States or the president had to expand democracy.

When I’m in the U.S. Senate, I will fiercely oppose the president’s attack on Kentucky’s coal industry, because protecting our jobs will be my No. 1 priority.