President Quotes - Page 38

John Kerry will be the Democratic nominee for president. Democrats finally found someone who is Al Gore without the flash and the sizzle.

The prison scandal is really hurting President Bush's poll numbers. In fact, I hear he's already working on his concession smirk.

I think where I differ a little bit, we absolutely have to think about the deficit looking down the road. And certainly that's something the president has said that we need to, as the economy recovers, have a plan in place for getting it down.

Is America ready for a black president? Well, I say we just had a retarded one. When did being black become a bigger deterrent than being retarded?

The president of the United States, whoever it is, deserves a certain level of reverence and respect just because of the office he holds.

The charade of politics is to make voters think that the personal narrative of the candidate affects the operation of the corporate state. It doesn't really matter on the fundamental issues whether the President is Republican or Democratic.

You see, Mr. President - real leaders don't follow polls. Real leaders change polls.

How do we get utopian thinking in a dystopian world? These days we aren't talking to each other - we're screaming and trying to hit each other over the head with rocks and sticks. A primitive fury has been unleashed by a president who has no culture, who cannot read, and who wants to determine power and aggression.

The way I read Billy Carter's testimony, he was a model citizen himself until the voters went and ruined his life by making his brother President.

Not a season passes without new disclosures showing Nixon's numerous attempts at criminal use of his presidential powers and in fact the scorn he held for the rule of law.

Don't people know that they don't have to heckle the president of the United States? That's what Congress is for.

History buffs probably noted the reunion at a Washington party a few weeks ago of three ex-presidents: Carter, Ford and Nixon - See No Evil, Hear No Evil and Evil.

Joe Biden would probably be running a Denny's if he wasn't Vice President.

You know, one of the things I think you understand as president is you're held responsible for everything, but you don't always have control of everything, right?

We need earmark reform, and when I'm President, I will go line by line to make sure that we are not spending money unwisely.

You didn't elect me to tell you what you wanted to hear. You elected me to tell you the truth.

As you know from the Italian expression, the fish stinks from the head down. What I can tell you two fish that don't stink, okay, and that's me and the President.

I think I should be a president. President of the United States.

The era of big government is over.

The great thing about not being president anymore is I can say whatever I want, about anything. Of course [now], nobody really cares what I say. And now I have the worst of all worlds -- my wife has become the secretary of state, so no one really cares what I say -- unless I mess up.

I have come to the conclusion that the major part of the president is to increase the gate receipts of expositions and fairs and bring tourists to town.

I am afraid I am a constant disappointment to my party. The fact of the matter is, the longer I am President the less of a party man I seem to become.

Next to the right of liberty, the right of property is the most important individual right guaranteed by the Constitution . .

Unless there is meaningful change in Syria and an end to the crackdown, President Assad and those around him will find themselves isolated internationally and discredited within Syria.

The long-continued and useful public service and eminent purity of character of the deceased ex-President will be remembered.