President Quotes - Page 139

Every president has taken comfort and courage when told...that the Lord "will be with thee. He will not fail thee nor forsake thee. Fear not-neither be thou dismayed."

In seeking the help of the Congress and our countrymen, I pledged no easy answers. I pledged, and asked, only toil and dedication. These the Congress and the people have given in good measure.

When things don't go well they like to blame presidents; and that's something that presidents are paid for.

Let us make it clear that we will never turn our backs on our steadfast friends in Israel, whose adherence to the democratic way must be admired by all friends of freedom.

Every dollar released from taxation that is spared or invested will help create a new job and a new salary.

We support the security of both Israel and her neighbors.

We have become more and more not a nation of athletes but a nation of spectators.

Those [presidents] who were strongest intellectually were also strongest spiritually.

If all of you had voted the other way - there's about 5500 of you here tonight - I would not be the President of the United States.

I have seen in many places housing which has been developed under government influences, but I have never seen any projects in which governments have played their part which have fountains and statues and grass and trees, which are as important to the concept of the home as the roof itself.

I'm very pleased with the job President Bush is doing and he's off to a terrific start.

Thanks to President Bush and Republican principles, businesses now have more confidence to hire workers.

I have worked with Presidents since Eisenhower. We serve together.

I am going to work with Tom Daschle. And I'll work with the Republican leaders and the president to try and come up with something that we can all be proud of.

I have decided not to run for president.

I have looked at public opinion polls in France in the late 1940s and early 1950s during the height of Marshall Plan aid. They had a very negative attitude towards the United States then. There were negative attitudes towards the United States because of Vietnam. There were negative attitudes about the United States when Reagan wanted to deploy intermediate range ballistic missiles. I don't think the president should base his foreign policy on American public opinion polls, let alone foreign public opinion polls.

Don't get me wrong: I would love to be president.

Remember when Ronald Reagan was president? We had Bob Hope. We had Johnny Cash. Think about where we are today. We have got President Obama. But we have no hope and we have no cash.

I would say to the president: This is not about me. This is not about Republicans here in Congress. It's about fairness for the America people.

Jeb Bush is my friend. I think he'd make a great president. I've nudged him for some time.

The world is starving for American leadership. But America has an anti-war president.

The more Americans find out about President Barack Obama's health care law, the less they like it. A majority of Americans want out.

As a physician and a U.S. senator, I have warned since the very beginning about many troubling aspects of Mr. Obama's unprecedented health-insurance mandate. Not only does he believe he can order you to buy insurance, the president also incorrectly equates health insurance coverage with medical care.

The Commission on Presidential Debates must be replaced if we want to have a democracy in this country.

If you only take offense when the president of your party is compared to Hitler, then you're part of the problem.