President Quotes - Page 29

The great presidents are people who watch out for others.

There is no act, however virtuous, for which ingenuity may not find some bad motive.

I do not find in orthodox Christianity one redeeming feature.

Any politician who wants to run for president will come to me in a few years.

The people don't elect U.S. presidents, God does.

No president is well-served by groupthink or by everybody singing from the same sheet of music they think he's on.

In 1980, evangelicals overwhelmingly elected a candidate who was a known womanizer when he was in Hollywood. He would be the first divorced president in U.S. history. His name was Ronald Reagan. And when evangelicals voted for Reagan, they weren't endorsing womanizing. They weren't endorsing divorce. They were endorsing Reagan's policies.

I have a great deal of concern for any president and the amount of power they accumulate versus congress. I'm a stickler about the idea of separation of powers.

Of course no president, Democratic or Republican - no president - is above the law, as neither are you, nor I, nor anyone.

It is true that all of the current presidential candidates once denied that they had any intention of running. But the fact that I am also a liar, doesn't make me a candidate.

There is no job description for the first lady and she's only there because her husband got elected president.

Being president isn't anything like reality TV.

I have walked majestically with kings and queens and presidents and other heads of states.

To further the appreciation of culture among all the people, to increase respect for the creative individual, to widen participation by all the processes and fulfillments of artthis is one of the fascinating challenges of these days.

Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump are the most disliked and untrusted candidates for president in American history.

[On President Kennedy's assassination Nov. 22, 1963:] Something dreadful is going to happen to the president today.

As you may have heard, former President Bill Clinton says he's coming here to California to help Governor Gray Davis in his recall election campaign. Which is ironic, isn't it? When Clinton was president, he couldn't recall anything.

Impeachment is our system's last resort for someone who treats himself or herself as above the law, the most relevant thing is whether this president, by his recent course of action, on top of his violations of the foreign corruption or emoluments clause, this president has shone that he cannot be trusted to remain within the law and our constitution's last resort for situations of that kind is to get the person out of office.

Every new and successful example of a perfect separation between ecclesiastical and civil matters is of importance.

Thank God, under our Constitution there was no connection between Church and State, and that in my action as President of the United States I recognized no distinction of creeds in my appointments office.

I was chef to the French Presidents between '56 and '59, finished with de Gaulle, and during de Gaulle I remember serving Eisenhower, Nehru, Tito, Macmillan; those were the heads of state at the time. I never saw anyone. No one would ever, ever, ever come to the kitchen. You couldn't even see them.

I am suspending my presidential campaign.

I am proud of my part in the creation of this new state. Our Government was the first to recognize the State of Israel.

Terrorist', noun: 1. Someone my government tells me is a terrorist; 2. Someone my President decides to kill.

No pecuniary consideration is more urgent, than the regular redemption and discharge of the public debt: on none can delay be more injurious, or an economy of time more valuable.