President Quotes - Page 35

If I have anything to say against Obama it's not because I'm a racist, it's because I don't like what he's doing as President and anybody should be able to feel that way, but what I find now is that if you say anything against him you're called a racist.

I wanted to be president of the United States. I really did. The older I get, the less preposterous the idea seems.

I have simply tried to do what seemed best each day, as each day came.

The only assurance of our nation's safety is to lay our foundation in morality and religion.

If the Federal Reserve pursues a policy which Congress or the President believes not to be in the public interest, there is nothing Congress can do to reverse the policy. Nor is there anything the people can do. Such bastions of unaccountable power are undemocratic. The Federal Reserve System must be reformed, so that it is answerable to the elected representatives of the people.

America is the only idealistic nation in the world.

Next to the right of liberty, the right of property is the most important individual right guaranteed by the Constitution and the one which, united with that of personal liberty, has contributed more to the growth of civilization than any other institution established by the human race.

Our most dangerous tendency is to expect too much of government, and at the same time do for it too little.

I was friends with President Ronald Reagan and he once said to me, 'I don't know how anybody can serve in public office without being an actor.

With a black president, I can relax... I can dance in public... I can buy a whole watermelon now.

When you're bringing in a fairly unknown candidate challenging a sitting president, the population needs a lot more information than reduced coverage provides.

I am Congress; I'm president.

We must improve our lives and we will do it together - all of our citizens and myself as president of Ukraine.

The problem with deterrence - apparently sometimes forgotten by our former presidents - is that it is not static, but a creature of the moment, captive to impression, and nursed on action, not talk. It must be maintained hourly and can erode or be lost with a single act of failed nerve, despite all the braggadocio of threatened measures. And, once gone, the remedies needed for its restoration are always more expensive, deadly - and controversial - than would have been its simple maintenance.

We can support our troops without supporting our president.

Hopefully with a woman President the double standard will slowly begin to wane.

Experience has already shown that the impeachment the Constitution has provided is not even a scarecrow.

To discriminate against a thoroughly upright citizen because he belongs to some particular church, or because, like Abraham Lincoln, he has not avowed his allegiance to any church, is an outrage against the liberty of conscience, which is one of the foundations of American life.

Conservation means development as much as it does protection.

I have always said I would not have been President had it not been for my experience in North Dakota.

There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism.

The lack of power to take joy in outdoor nature is as real a misfortune as the lack of power to take joy in books

I no longer feel any allegiance to these monsters called human beings, despise being one myself.

Positioned on my dresser, that white-as-snow rose is a personal message to me. It speaks of unfinished business. It whispers, I can find you. I can reach you. Perhaps I am watching you now.

I guess this is a bad time to mention I hung a dummy and painted Seneca Crane's name on it.