President Quotes - Page 137

I'm not sure, if I were President Clinton, I wouldn't want to be pardoned for something that I believed that I didn't do.

Responsibility always stops at the president's desk.

It seems to me that President Carter has earned his place as if not the worst president in history, the worst president of the 20th Century.

I am sure that Senator Clinton would make a good President. I have no doubt that Senator Clinton would make a good President.

I want to tell the vice president and everybody else that when I'm president there will be a controlling legal authority.

Sen. Obama is a decent person and a person you don't have to be scared of as president of the United States.

[I find it] impossible [to imagine] that a nation which is grounded in Judaeo-Christian principles would somehow select someone [for President] who would repudiate those principles.

It is perhaps my greatest hope, Mr. President, that some day we'll consider tax and spending measures with no one else in mind but future generations of American taxpayers. We're tying a millstone of debt around their necks, and it is a grave mistake.

Whatever efforts for peace President Gorbachev had in mind, they were pretty substantially undercut very swiftly by Saddam Hussein.

Donald Trump has made it clear that certainly over the last few years that President [Barack] Obama was born in Hawaii.

To question the legitimacy of the next United States president, you know, and you're worried about a tweet that says, hey, why don't you get back to work instead of questioning my legitimacy? Too bad.

John Lewis stood up and said in an interview that Donald Trump was not a legitimate president. It's insanity.

I can tell just from working closely for the last year an half with president-elect [Donald Trump] and even over the course of the last six weeks, he has no problem with differing opinions in a room.

President-elect [Donald] Trump won 30 of 50 states, more counties since Ronald Reagan.

I'm gonna say that I have followed every presidential campaign since the campaign of President [John F.] Kennedy in 1960.

I think that [James] Comey acted in an outrageous way during the [presidential ] campaign [in 2016].

I think, in fact, I think President [Barack] Obama could step up.

We all remember that [Donald] Trump was one of the leaders of the so-called birther movement trying to delegitimize the presidency of our first African-American president Barack Obama, which is an outrage.

We put a President up there, and then we set fire to him because he's not solving all our problems.

You can't just blurt the information out to the Russian foreign minister and the Russian ambassador. What happens is, the information goes back to the CIA, to the originating office. The CIA will pull the relevant information out of the report, put it on a new blank sheet of paper and then type at the top, "Secret releasable to Russia." That way, nobody gets in trouble, no sources and methods are revealed, everybody's happy, and we can establish something of a liaison relationship to the Russians. That's not what the president did.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt and J.F Kennedy were Presidents in very different times.

American university presidents are a nervous breed; I have never thought well of them as a class.

A president of the United States, again, has to bring people together, have a position. We need to be able to penetrate these people when they are involved in these plots and these plans. And we have to give the local authorities the ability to penetrate to disrupt. That's what we need to do.

[President] needs to engage them in a very personal way. And he needs to tell them that this is something that America, the United States of America, needs. Not Republican. It's not Democrat. It's America.

The role of money in politics is terrible, particularly when you're running for president. You get a handful of billionaires who can basically buy the White House.