President Quotes - Page 5

When I joined the ANC, I never thought I would be anything. In no way, did I say, 'One day I could be the president. I think I am good material for the presidency.' Not at all.

The American people do not like privatization. They are afraid of the debt the president's willing to do. And they don't like benefit cuts. And everyone here should understand all 45 Senate Democrats are united. We are not going to let this happen.

I did not have sexual relations with that woman

Only a madman or an actor would want to be President of the United States.

We have had good and bad Presidents, and it is a consoling reflection that the American Nation possesses such elements of prosperity that the bad Presidents cannot destroy it, and have been able to do no more than slightly to retard the public's advancement.

Watergate was unique because it allowed the public to play its democratic role in expressing its outrage at the presidency. And as a result, for the first time in history a president resigned.

God knows that I detest slavery, but it is an existing evil, for which we are not responsible, and we must endure it, till we can get rid of it without destroying the last hope of free government in the world.

No one is above the law, not even the president. I believe perjury does meet at least the definition of high misdemeanor.

We must use time as a tool, not as a couch.

We urge President Bush to abstain from the National Missile Defense, just as we urge China, India and Pakistan to discontinue their nuclear arsenals.

Mr. President, the only thing that stops a bad guy with a nuke is a good guy with a nuke.

Must swear off from swearing. Bad habit.

The president of the United States, the most famous person in the world, maybe in the whole galaxy - in a long time - he had to spend like a billion dollars to set the record straight.

The dangers of a concentration of all power in the general government of a confederacy so vast as ours are too obvious to be disregarded.

One of the first lessons a president has to learn is that every word he says weighs a ton.

America cannot be an ostrich with its head in the sand.

If you see the President, tell him from me that whatever happens there will be no turning back.

Is the president purposefully using propaganda and hyperbole to garner the American public for support?

That was the principle of reparations to which President Truman agreed at Potsdam. And the United States will not agree to the taking from Germany of greater reparations than was provided by the Potsdam Agreement.

The only thing new in the world is the history you don't know.

Perhaps one of the most important accomplishments of my administration has been minding my own business.

You are a den of vipers and thieves. I intend to rout you out, and by the eternal God, I will rout you out.

The problem to be solved is, not what form of government is perfect, but which of the forms is least imperfect.

Look at what President Kennedy managed to achieve during the Cuban missile crisis. If Bush had been president in 1962, do you think he would have avoided a nuclear war?

As we mourn President Mandela’s passing we must ask ourselves the fundamental question - what shall we do to respond to the tasks of building a democratic, non-racial, non-sexist and prosperous South Africa, a people-centred society free of hunger, poverty, disease and inequality, as well as Africa’s renaissance, to whose attainment President Nelson Mandela dedicated his whole life?