President quotes

Adams John Quincy 1767-1848

Had I been chosen president again, I am certain I could not have lived another year.

Bush Barbara 1925

Somewhere out in this audience may even be someone who will one day follow in my footsteps, and preside over the White House as the President's spouse. I wish him well.

Clay Henry 1777-1852

(to Senator Preston of South Carolina)

I had rather be right than be President.

Coolidge Calvin 1872-1933

I think the American public wants a solemn ass as a president, and I think I'll go along with them.

Hulbert James

A company is judged by the president it keeps.

Johnson Lyndon B. 1908-1973

There is but one way for a president to deal with the Congress, and that is continuously, incessantly, and without interruption. If it's really going to work, the relationship between the president and the Congress has got to be almost incestuous.

Keynes John Maynard 1883-1946

The Economic Consequences of the Peace

Like Odysseus, the President [Woodrow Wilson] looked wiser when he was seated.

Kissinger Henry 1923

We are the President's men.

Mencken H.L. 1880-1956

He [Calvin Coolidge] slept more than any other President, whether by day or by night. Nero fiddled, but Coolidge only snored.

Nixon Richard 1913-1994

I welcome this kind of examination because people have got to know whether or not their President is a crook. Well, I'm not a crook.

Nixon Richard 1913-1994

When the President does it, that means that it is not illegal.

Stevenson Adlai 1900-1965

In America,any boy may become president,and I suppose it's just one of the risks he takes.

Streisand Barbra 1942

9of Bill Clinton, in 1998)

We elected a President, not a Pope.

Truman Harry S. 1884-1972

Within the first few months I discovered that being a president is like riding a tiger. A man has to keep riding or be swallowed.

Truman Harry S. 1884-1972

Letter to his sister

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.

Truman Harry S. 1884-1972

The president is the representative of the whole nation and he's the only lobbyist that all the one hundred and sixty million people in this country have.

Wilson Sir Harold 1916-1995