President Quotes - Page 3

A government of laws, and not of men.

Working on your biceps? Try chopping down a cherry tree.

Welfare's purpose should be to eliminate, as far as possible, the need for its own existence.

Favoritism' is always a factor, and pressure always build for the appointment of friends of influential supporters of the President, or for the nominees of powerful Member of Congress from the incoming President's party.

America's present need is not heroics but healing; not nostrums but normalcy; not revolution but restoration.

Some people say the president is incapable of enforcing the law. Let them say that once more and I will set the tanks on them.

War should never be entered upon until every agency of peace has failed.

One of the sad signs of our times is that we have demonized those who produce, subsidized those who refuse to produce, and canonized those who complain.

War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today.

The United States brags about its political system, but the President says one thing during the election, something else when he takes office, something else at midterm and something else when he leaves.

I may be president of the United States, but my private life is nobody's damned business.

Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery.

Hope, it is the only thing stronger than fear. A little hope is effective, a lot of hope is dangerous.

You won't have Nixon to kick around anymore, because, gentlemen, this is my last press conference.

Elect me as your congressman today, I promise you an Ilocano president in 20 years.

I didn't vote for him, but he's my President, and I hope he does a good job.

This generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny.

I'm going to be honest, I would love for Flava Flav to be president. It would bring a lot of excitement to the country.

I am not a newcomer, you know, so I want to be judged for what I did when I was prime minister last time in Italy and president of the European Commission for more than five years.

Religious and racial persecution is moronic at all times, perhaps the most idiotic of human stupidities.

Presidents are selected, not elected.

I don't know anyone at the highest levels who approved Abu Ghraib. If President Barack Obama for a moment thought that somebody at a high level had approved it, he would go after them.

If the Europeans want to intervene, that's their business. But if I were president, I would remove every United States soldier from the Balkan peninsula.

The less government interferes with private pursuits, the better for general prosperity.

I couldn't be happier that President Bush has stood up for having served in the National Guard, because I can finally put an end to all those who questioned my motives for enlisting in the Army Reserve at the height of the Vietnam War.