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
The office of president requires the constitution of an athlete, the patience of a mother, the endurance of an early Christian.