President Quotes - Page 6

While Americans have heard of Darfur and think we should be doing more there, they aren't actually angry at the president about inaction

As parties began to develop around the turn of the 19th century, you had party nominees for President nominated in caucuses made up of party members in Congress.

You can't blame the President for the state of the country, it's always the poets' fault. You can't expect politicians to come up with a vision, they don't have it in them. Poets have to come up with the vision and they have to turn it on so it sparks and catches hold.

There is a connection, hard to explain logically but easy to feel, between achievement in public life and progress in the arts. The age of Pericles was also the age of Phidias. The age of Lorenzo de Medici was also the age of Leonardo da Vinci. The age of Elizabeth was also the age of Shakespeare. And the New Frontier for which I campaign in public life, can also be a New Frontier for American art.

President Obama is the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people.

Don't write so that you can be understood, write so that you can't be misunderstood.

Two problems of our country - energy and malaise.

With me it is exceptionally true that the Presidency is no bed of roses.

The bud of victory is always in the truth.

The only legitimate right to govern is an express grant of power from the governed.

Presidents are elected not by direct popular vote but by 538 members of the Electoral College.

I cannot, whilst President of the United States, descend to enter into a newspaper controversy.

There have been high crimes and misdemeanors, but they have been committed by the special prosecutor and the Congress, not the president.

I like a President who tells jokes instead of appointing them.

Popularity, I have always thought, may aptly be compared to a coquette - the more you woo her, the more apt is she to elude your embrace.

The office of president is a bastardized thing, half royalty and half democracy that nobody knows whether to genuflect or spit.

Being a politician is a poor profession. Being a public servant is a noble one.

I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical.

Politics: where fat, bald, disagreeable men, unable to be candidates themselves, teach a president how to act on a public stage.

A government which lays taxes on the people not required by urgent public necessity and sound public policy is not a protector of liberty, but an instrument of tyranny. It condemns the citizen to servitude.

The president already has a Nobel Prize for peace. I think he's shooting for one in fiction.

President Obama once said he wants everybody in America to go to college. What a snob.

I think Ronald Reagan was one of the great presidents, period, not just recently. I thought he had the demeanor. I thought he had the bearing. I thought he had the thought process.

Be fit for more than the thing you are now doing. Let everyone know that you have a reserve in yourself; that you have more power than you are now using. If you are not too large for the place you occupy, you are too small for it.

We Americans have no commission from God to police the world.