Presidents Quotes

Presidents are elected not by direct popular vote but by 538 members of the Electoral College.

Now, today is the day we honor, of course, the Presidents, ranging from George Washington, who couldn't tell a lie, to George Bush, who couldn't tell the truth, to Bill Clinton, who couldn't tell the difference.

I want to kill the president because I no like the capitalists. I have the gun in my hand, I kill kings and presidents first and next all capitalists.

Only kings, presidents, editors, and people with tapeworms have the right to use the editorial "we."

Letter writing was clearly important to Reagan. Even as president he kept dashing off letters to friends, pen pals, media people, statesmen, critics, and the kind of people who write to presidents never expecting a reply.

Look, I worked with American Republican presidents and Democratic presidents, all of them, and each of them has shown a deep and profound friendship to Israel, you know? I can't remember anybody who was in that sense negative as far as Israel is concerned.

I think that presidents don't give up power that has accrued to them by the precedent of previous presidents. Even when they say they would like to, I think once they get there they don't give it up.

I've played three presidents, three saints and two geniuses - and that's probably enough for any man.

I've played golf with three U.S presidents.

In our brief national history we have shot four of our presidents, worried five of them to death, impeached one and hounded another out of office. And when all else fails, we hold an election and assassinate their character.

When I found out that there was eight Presidents before George Washington, I wanted to smack somebody.

I believe that Bill Clinton will be remembered as one of our nation's great Presidents, and Senator Clinton as one of our nation's great public servants.

One out of forty American men wears women's clothing. We've had more than forty presidents. One of these guys has been dancing around the Oval Office in a prom dress.

Obama is making a choice now that will lead to the deaths of many thousands of civilians in Afghanistan by American hands. By ordinary standards of presidents, he is a decent man. But those standards aren't good enough. He's in a position either to kill or not to kill, and he's made the decision to kill.

In a rational society we would want our presidents to be teachers. In our actual society we insist they be cheerleaders.

Our chief justices have probably had more profound and lasting influence on their times and on the direction of the nation than most presidents.

Seven presidents before him - Democrats and Republicans - tried to expand health care to all Americans. President Obama got it done.

One of the embarrassing problems for the early nineteenth-century champions of the Christian faith was that not one of the first six Presidents of the United States was an orthodox Christian.

Success in war underpins the claims to greatness of many presidents.

Assassins and presidents invite the same basic question: Just who do you think you are?

I head a nation of a million presidents.

Midterm elections for first-term presidents are notoriously difficult.

Presidents do not go into war lightly. It's a tremendous responsibility in making decisions, and I know Bush must deeply believe this is the only course.

I think a lot of presidents learn to be president by being president.

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.

You know how old I am? I'm so old, I remember when Letterman used to be funny and it was presidents who were serious. That's how old I am.

After being sworn in to office, vice presidents have usually been relegated to the sidelines, where they just don't get to do very much.

A long life in journalism convinced me many presidents ago that there should be a large air space between a journalist and the head of a state.

As I've gotten older, I've gotten more liberal, and my father is increasingly conservative. It's so shocking to me because I always thought we had the same politics. The day I realized we voted for different presidents, I practically fell out of my chair.

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