President Quotes - Page 25

It is the duty of the President to propose and it is the privilege of the Congress to dispose.

The Republicans have put together serious detailed counter-proposals when we have objected to this administration's agenda. And so, I want to tell the President and remind him again, we're not voting no for political expediency. We've got our principles, and we're going to stand up and defend those.

President Bush and his administration have tried to pull the wool over our eyes and distract the public from this possibly illegal domestic spying scandal.

A knowledgeable and courageous U.S. president could help enormously in leading the world's nations toward saving the climate.

Jeff Sessions takes the job, gets into the job, recuses himself. Which frankly I think is very unfair to the president. How do you take a job and then recuse yourself? If he would have recused himself before the job, I would have said, thanks, Jeff, but you know, I`m not going to pick you. It`s extremely unfair, and that`s a mild word, to the president.

Mitt Romney has won the 2012 presidential nomination by promising Republicans that he would end a so-called 'culture of dependency' on welfare - welfare defined as 'free stuff' and food stamps for poor folks, not tax breaks for Big Oil or tax shelters for Bain executives.

Mother loved dance so much that she thought (ballerina) Margot Fonteyn should be the president.

Actually, today I had to defend the Bush Administration in France again. They refuse to accept, because of their political ideology, that he has actually done more than any American President for Africa. But it's empirically so.

Eunice Kennedy Shriver, President Kennedy's sister, endorsed Arnold Schwarzenegger, said he's not a womanizer. Of course by Kennedy standards that means he never drove one off a bridge.

I call upon Donald Trump to rescind the appointment that he made of Stephen Bannon. A president of the United States should not have a racist at his side, unacceptable.

Yes, I'm going to be the President of the United States. You know why? You think you can get chicks by being in the movies? You can really get chicks by being the President.

The President has apologized for his activities with Monica Lewinsky. These were too little, too late, in my opinion.

Press passes can't be that hard to come by if the White House allows that old Arab Helen Thomas to sit within yards of the President.

The nonsense about President Obama being a Muslim has got to stop. I rise to defend him from this absurd accusation by pointing out that he is obviously an atheist.

We know that the Russian's interfered in our election and they did it to benefit President Trump. The intelligence agencies confirmed that.

Every people has a right to choose the sovereignty under which they shall live.

All my friends and family are either in prison or don't make enough money. I don't know what the president really does. I haven't been able to experience that kind of shift yet.

[F]alsehood of the tongue leads to that of the heart, and in time depraves all its good dispositions.

No people is wholly civilized where a distinction is drawn between stealing an office and stealing a purse.

In a rational society we would want our presidents to be teachers. In our actual society we insist they be cheerleaders.

The President [Barack Obama] had suggested that I not watch the news during the confirmation process. I assiduously followed his advice.

This is pop music. You've got a candidate for president of the United States using it, that's hitting the biggest audience you're ever going to hit in your entire friggin' life. And you don't want that? Bullshit. That's what you want. It's not even for success or fortune, it's because that's the power of the song.

I want to elect the next president.

Some people want to be bank presidents. Other people want to rob banks.

Our country will need real leadership to undo President Obama's failed policies, and replace them with the conservative principles Mitt Romney learned turning around businesses and a failing Olympics and successfully, conservatively governing a Democratic state. I am proud to endorse him and will work my hardest to ensure he is elected so we can turn around our country.