President Quotes - Page 17

Syria is lucky to have Bashar al-Assad as her President.

Tell him to go to hell.

We have a presidential election coming up. And I think the big problem, of course, is that someone will win.

I’m dead ass running for president in 2016.

There are no words that can tell the hidden spirit of the wilderness, that can reveal its mystery, its melancholy and its charm.

I said I'm the president of Iraq... I did not say deposed.

As the President reviewed the state of the union and unveiled his second-term agenda, he fell short of adequately explaining how he intends to set America back on the course of fiscal responsibility and secure the fiscal health of the nation.

The worst day of my political life was when President George W. Bush signed McCain-Feingold into law.

Then I was president of the Bakelite Corporation from 1910 to 1930

I'm not the poorest president. The poorest is the one who needs a lot to live.

We have a serious structural deficit problem. And it needs to be addressed. The president is trying to address it through reforms of Social Security, but the problem is there with other entitlement programs like Medicare and Medicaid.

Freedom requires that government keep the channels of competition and opportunity open, prevent monopolies, economic abuse and domination.

At the age of 12 my ambition was to become a gangster. To be a wiseguy. Being a wiseguy was better than being President of the United States. To be a wiseguy was to own the world.

The President is always abused. If he isn't, he isn't doing anything.

In one of his last appearances, Mitterrand, the agnostic president, was asked what the real God might say to him if he went to heaven. God would say: "At last, you know." And I would hope that He would add, "Welcome."

Look for what's missing. Many advisors can tell a President how to improve what's proposed or what's gone amiss. Few are able to see what isn't there.

The main problem with being president is the constant sense that you are inside a glass bowl for everyone to see, or in a kind of barometric chamber with an artificial atmosphere where you must stay all the time.

But even the President of the United States sometimes must have to stand naked.

When you vote, vote for those who are not warmongers, and vote for those who respect human rights. When you see a president who doesn't respect human rights, don't vote for that person.

He tells so many lies that he convinces himself after a while that he's telling the truth. He just doesn't recognize truth or falsehood.

Presidents don't get vacations - they just get a change of scenery. The job goes with you.

President Trump basically has interfered with an investigation where he may be implicated. That's outrageous. And that's why we're having so much of a conversation about it today. Everybody is talking about it because this is highly unusual.

...International education cannot be the work of one country. It is the responsibility and promise of all nations. It calls for free exchange and full collaboration...The knowledge of our citizens is one treasure which grows only when it is shared.

If I were the president of the United States, I would make unions illegal. They no longer serve a functional purpose in democracy, in my view.

Did you know Richard Nixon is the only president whose formal portrait was painted by a police sketch artist?