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President Quotes
"Vice president - it has such a nice ring to it!"
"Look for what's missing. Many advisors can tell a President how to improve what's proposed or what's gone amiss. Few are able to see what isn't there."
"I have great respect for President Bush, Secretary Powell and Secretary Ridge."
"Welcome to President Bush, Mrs. Bush, and my fellow astronauts."
"It's been years, decades, since a president has lost a major trade initiative. That would be bad headlines."
"I certainly know that this relationship could not have continued the way it did, when I was at the Pentagon and the president was obviously at the White House, without Betty."
"When George Washington was elected president, there was no national vote."
"We are worried about the size of the deficit, which is why the president is pleased that the House and Senate have followed his lead in cutting the deficit in half over the next five years."
"Like Odysseus, the President looked wiser when he was seated."
"What the president announced yesterday, is that somehow magically, if we just continue to prime the pump of taxpayer dollars, we're going to see magically an economic recovery."
"The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep."
"What's been extraordinary about this president, Tim, and what's unique about this president is not that the administration is sputtering but rather everything he's taken on he's been able to accomplish."
"Come here immediately and see if you can find the murderer of the President."
"The President then proceeded to read his Emancipation Proclamation, making remarks on the several parts as he went on, and showing that he had fully considered the whole subject, in all lights under which it had been presented to him."
"The last thing I wanted to do was to be a wartime President."
"I'm going to be so much better a president for having been at the CIA that you're not going to believe it."
"The President is always abused. If he isn't, he isn't doing anything."
"The behaviour of President Bush on 11 September certainly gives rise to not unnatural suspicions."
"I would never say President Obama doesn't have the capacity to continue to serve because of his statement that there are 56 states."
"We, Norton I, do hereby decree that the offices of President, Vice President, and Speaker of the House of Representatives are, from and after this date, abolished."
"The President would usually talk to me about matters relating to the immigration problem."
"Hey, I'm a former union president myself and also an attorney that represented a lot of unions."
"I would say that President Roosevelt probably was more intimately in touch with the press corps at the White House than President Truman was."
"I think with new president Chris Pook of CART, he is very active and strong."
"A master of improvised speech and improvised policies."
"Some years ago I became president of Columbia University and learned within 24 hours to be ready to speak at the drop of a hat, and I learned something more, the trustees were expected to be ready to speak at the passing of the hat."
"Well, I decided earlier this year that I would run for president, and obviously I needed something to run on."
"This is said to us, even as this counterfeit president has legalized the Confederate Flag in Mississippi."
"Of the fellows least likely to be president, you'd have to vote Jack No. 1."
"Most of the things that need to be said about the President are things he can't say himself."
"President Bush has been silent on Schwarzenegger. Of course, he can't pronounce Schwarzenegger."
"Yesterday, the president met with a group he calls the coalition of the willing. Or, as the rest of the world calls them, Britain and Spain."
"He has to do the heavy lifting and the windows and the wash, and also protect the president."
"It's not impossible for a woman - a Black woman - to become President."
"The Chavez-Obama pictures will join a postmodern photo array that includes Donald Rumsfeld gifting Saddam Hussein with spurs from President Reagan."
"I'm not going to have some reporters pawing through our papers. We are the president."
"I was ordained one of the standing High Council in Zion, under the hands of President Joseph Smith."
"Ten of those Republican incumbents, all of whom voted for the impeachment of President Clinton, are from states that Bill Clinton carried."
"I don't think there is one president that's come down the line that hasn't done something good somewhere."
"Sure, it is apparent that presidents are looking at polls, but they are also stepping up on issues. President Clinton stepped up on tobacco. He shaped the polls on the tobacco issue."
"It's pretty hard to say no when a vice president-elect and a president-elect ask you to be part of the national team."
"Mr. President, I believe your real problem is that you have somehow been unable to realize that you have won, not only won, but been re-elected by a tremendous margin."
"I must say I am not pleased to have to arrange the Senate schedule around the availability of Senators who are running for President."
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