President Quotes - Page 41

Mr. President, we've taken off our "Kick Me" sign.

A new study says that working fewer hours can slow global warming. So you know what that means? President Obama's economic policy is also his climate change policy.

The president really shouldn't be involved in terms of dictating what course the investigation should take.

I must tell you that I am committed, as the president of Iraq, to benchmarks and to do our best to achieve some progress forward for national reconciliation.

President Marcos was investing in precious metals long before he entered politics.

Freedom is the most contagious virus known to man.

Eventually, somebody is going to be a hero, and somebody's going to be president. Not necessarily the same person.

Well, I may not be the youngest candidate in this race. But I will be the youngest woman President in the history of the United States!

The Democrats co-opted the credit for the Civil Rights Act of 1964. But if you go back and look at the history, a larger percentage of Republicans voted for that than did Democrats. But a Democrat president signed it, so they co-opted credit for having passed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

When they ask me who's the president of Ubeki-beki-beki-beki-stan-stan I'm going to say, you know, I don't know. Do you know? And then I'm going to say how's that going to create one job?

We are now speeding down the road of wasteful spending and debt, and unless we can escape we will be smashed in inflation.

The president [of American research institute] can act as the CEO and make a firm decision about the long-term development of the institution, but he or she does so in constant consultation with the faculty. It may not always work this way, but the greatest advances occur when governance is truly shared.

It is an act of insanity and national humiliation to have a law prohibiting the President from ordering assassination.

Vice President Dick Cheney reportedly has been disturbed over what he sees as the erosion of presidential powers since the Watergate scandal and has urged Bush to take a stronger stand against what Cheney sees as congressional intrusions into the executive branch.

The President hears a hundred voices telling him that he is the greatest man in the world. He must listen carefully indeed to hear the one voice that tells him his is not.

Most of the problems a President has to face have their roots in the past.

Every citizen owes to the country a vigilant watch and close scrutiny of its public servants and a fair and reasonable estimate of their fidelity.

The behaviour of President Bush on 11 September certainly gives rise to not unnatural suspicions.

By the time a man gets to be presidential material, he's been bought ten times over.

I am the first to admit that were I not a woman, I would not have been the vice-presidential nominee.

I am a Ford, not a Lincoln.

Even the country's first president chafed at the limits placed on him by the writers of the U.S. Constitution. From the nature of the Constitution, ... I must approve all the parts of a bill, or reject it in toto.

And I, unfortunately, have been to too many disasters as president.

I'm the commander -- see, I don't need to explain -- I do not need to explain why I say things. That's the interesting thing about being president.

I have been supporting the European Union, but we are still a work in progress. We have to become more of a United States of Europe. We should talk about electing a president of the E.U., rather than having one selected from the heads of government.