President Quotes - Page 118

Eisenhower advocated a variety of strong actions which he had never taken when he was president. Maybe this was just the pattern of former presidents; maybe it reflected how much the circumstances had changed on the ground.

A president cant go to every memorial service.

Americas presidents tend to die young. Maybe it is in the nature of the men who reach such heights, or of the job once they attain it.

I am proud to be the president of the state of Israel.

You have to be an extremist to believe that you're gonna be the president of the United States and your name is Barack Hussein Obama! And he's using extreme methods, but his application is very smooth. Michelle Obama is extreme, her presence is extreme. And it's an extreme good. Extreme is not negative.

Every time North Korea commits an additional provocation, the U.N. Security Council passes another resolution. But when it comes to dialogue, currently there is nothing set. I hope to have frank and open discussions with President Trump on this issue.

I was worried about my mom more than I was worried about the president. And then I was worried about the president, and then I was worried about myself.

American presidential leadership never goes out of style.

When you talk about presidents, loyalty is a great thing until it becomes a bad thing. Witness once again Watergate.

How can you run for president if you dont know the job description?

I have, as you know, the utmost respect for President Obama as a person.

No one should be put on trial without a valid reason. Former President Morsi must be treated with dignity. These are the conditions of national reconciliation.

Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi grabbed full power for himself. Not even the pharaohs had so much authority, to say nothing of his predecessor Hosni Mubarak. This is a catastrophe - it a mockery of the revolution that brought him to power and an act that leads one to fear the worst.

As an American, no one expected Donald Trump to ever be a serious candidate for President. I don't think he even expected to be a serious candidate. He wanted the free media he would get.

When the President is making it harder to mine coal, to use coal, to take advantage of our gas resources, to make it harder to get our oil resources - all those things combine to make our cost of energy higher than it needs to be, and it drives away enterprises from this country. It sends it to places that have lower-cost energy.

Mr. President, you’re entitled as a president to your own airplane, and to your own house, but not to your own facts.

I think we can all agree this is a very important election [2016]. We don't want to see Hillary Clinton become the president of the United States.

Like other presidents before him, Barack Obama inherited a recession. But unlike them, he has made it worse, not better.

America needs a president who can fix the economy because he understands the economy, and I do and I will.

I understand the anger Americans feel today. In the past, our presidents have channeled that anger and forged it into resolve, into endurance and high purpose, and into the will to defeat the enemies of freedom. Our anger was transformed into energy directed for good. Donald Trump is directing our anger for less than noble purposes.

Since President Obama assumed office three years ago, federal spending has accelerated at a pace without precedent in recent history.

Three years ago, this week, a newly elected President Obama faced the American people and he said, look, if I can't turn this economy around in three years, I'll be looking at a one-term proposition, and we're here to collect! You know the results. It's been 35 months of unemployment above 8 percent.

The president (George W. Bush) says let's have private accounts, and take the surplus money that's being gathered now in Social Security and put it into private accounts. That works.

It's essential for a president to show strength from the very beginning, to make it very clear what is acceptable and not acceptable.

America's going to come back, and for that to happen, we're going to have to have a president who can work across the aisle.