President Quotes - Page 157

Can you let your son's body become the same temperature as your son's head before you turn this into a political campaign against the president? Could you do that?

As far as my relationship with President Putin is concerned, it's fine.

Being a president is being a CEO, essentially.

When a guy gets elected to the Senate or the governor's mansion, he wakes up the next morning and says to himself, 'You're presidential material,'

We were so shocked by how fast that war went that President Bush did not have a plan, a peace plan.

Vice president—it has such a nice ring to it.

President Reagan's one-liners were terrific.

Mr. President, putting it bluntly, wouldn't we just be continuing a bloodbath that already exists in Cambodia if we voted the 222 million in aid?

We . . . declared our independence 200 years ago, and we are not about to lose it now to paper shufflers and computers.

It's discouraging how hard it is for a President to slice away large chunks of a $305 billion budget.

I will be a president of all Bulgarians, irrespective of their ethnicity, religion or political affiliations.

Libertarian presidential candidate André Marrou's idea is that "government power is opposed to individual liberty." Must we still debate such sophomoric notions?... Besides, liberty, although very important, is not the only value.

Most presidents come to Washington bright as freshly minted dimes and leave much diminished.

Mitt Romney's losing at this point in a big way. If something's going to come out, get it out in a hurry. I do not know why - given that Mr. Romney knew the day that [Sen. John] McCain lost in 2008 that he was going to run for president again - that he didn't get all of this out and tidy up some of his offshore accounts and all the rest.

The education of this president [Obama] is a protracted and often amusing process . . . as he continues to alight upon the obvious with a sense of profound and original discovery.

Remember Henry Adam's jest that the succession of presidents from Washington to Grant disproved the theory of evolution?

The English language is not always the President's friend.

I am the elected president of Liberia, not Ellen Sirleaf. They stole my victory, and I am here to say loud and clear that I am the winner of the elections.

I wanted to come to Washington, D.C. and help be a transformative President. And I think history, when they look back, will say this is a fellow who knew how to make decisions, and made some tough ones, stood by them, wasn't driven by the latest opinion poll, but was driven by some core principles from which he would not deviate.

A president must make decisions based upon principle and stand by the principles by which he makes decisions in order to achieve peace.

I was able to adjust initially by plunging right into the book and the Bush Presidential Center at Southern Methodist University. And it turns out that there is a good way to make a living by giving speeches.

As the president, you're pretty much in a bubble. And golf is a good way to get out of the bubble.

I'm a content person and I'm content knowing that I gave it my all when I was president.

When you're writing about something that happened, it helps you transition to the present. Ironically enough, by focusing on your presidency, it helps you realize that you're no longer the president. By reliving moments, it helps you stay focused on the moment.

[My father] taught me (at least he showed me) a dignified way to be a former president is that once you're off the stage, you're off the stage.