President Quotes - Page 16

In Greece, the unemployment rate has risen to 22%. The solution to the problem was to raise taxes on the rich, according to the Greek president Barack Obama-opolis.

The effect of that is to poison the flow of information to the President himself and to create a situation where a President can be almost, to use a metaphor, psychotically divorced from the realities in which he is acting.

The most spectacular UFO incident in Indonesia occurred when during the height of President Sukarno's confrontation against Malaysia, UFOs penetrated a well-defended area in Java for two weeks at a stretch, and each time were welcomed with perhaps the heaviest anti-aircraft barrage in history.

Who can guarantee that he [Alexander Milinkevich, a Belarussian opposition presidential candidate] is the most promising candidate capable of competing with the incumbent president?

Why don't I drink from a straw? Because straws are for suckers.

Katniss, the girl who was on fire!

After some reflection I have decided that while I am the president of Ecuador, I will not attend any Summit of the Americas until it begins to make the decisions required.

Just so you know, we're on the good side with y'all. We do not want this war, this violence. And we're ashamed the president of the United States is from Texas.

[American Communist Party] legally exists in the U.S.A., it nominates its candidates in the elections, including Presidential elections.

Today President Obama gave a major speech where he defended his handling of the economy. And there were tons of people in the audience, you know, since nobody had to be at work.

Words without actions are the assassins of idealism.

I'm going to be so much better a president for having been at the CIA that you're not going to believe it.

Wisdom is essential in a president, the appearance of wisdom will do in a candidate.

When you are in any contest, you should work as if there were - to the very last minute - a chance to lose it. This is battle, this is politics, this is anything.

I head a nation of a million presidents.

You can never predict what kind of tough decisions are going to come in front of a President's desk. But if you can trust they will do the right thing, and maybe the hard thing, and maybe not the popular thing, and if you really want to know how a person will operate, look at how they've lived their life.

A president just can't make much showing against congress. They lay awake nights, thinking up things to be against the president on.

One of the tests of the civilization of people is the treatment of its criminals.

Some months before I declared, I asked for a meeting and crossed the border to meet with the president of Mexico. I did not go with a plan. I went, as I said in my announcement address, to ask him his ideas - how we could make the border something other than a locale for a nine-foot fence.

Mr. President, I love you, but you're wrong. (To Richard Nixon, on the Vietnam War)

First black president ever, and to be living while it happened - that's a good part of history. That's probably the biggest person I admire right now.

Bush is an idiot and he's President, so anything's possible

For one true measure of a nation is its success in fulfilling the promise of a better life for each of its members. Let this be the measure of our nation.

They all know I'm back, very much back, and that I will be the general president again come hell or high water.

Jerry Garcia and the Grateful Dead did as much for mankind as any president.