President Quotes - Page 96

I trust Hillary Clinton as president and commander in chief, but the thought of Donald Trump as commander in chief scares me to death.

I can be president of the United States, and if I can do that, I can do anything.

This is one where you can just kind of go to the tape on it. But Governor [Mike] Pence said inarguably Vladimir Putin is a better leader than President [Barack] Obama.

Unless things change radically, President Bush will be the first President since Herbert Hoover to have presided over a net loss of jobs during his administration.

Many people, including some conservatives, have been very impressed with how brainy the president and his advisers are. But that is not quite as reassuring as it might seem.

"President Monson, I may never see the Prophet. I may never hear the Prophet. But President, far better, now that I am a member of this Church, I can obey the Prophet."

American Secretaries of State have typically been more buttoned up than bon vivant, but John Quincy Adams's diplomatic successes - bigger than anything Presidential or legislative that he achieved - still surprise a student of his personality.

I feel much alarmed at the prospect of seeing General Jackson President. He is the most unfit man I know for such a place.

[The People] are the ultimate, guardians of their own liberty.

Tobacco is a culture productive of infinite wretchedness.

An individual, thinking himself injured, makes more noise than a State.

Above all else stands the burning question of bipartisanship. Whatever else the politicians might say they're about, our news analysts know that this is the true object of the nation's desire, the topic to which those slippery presidential spokesmen need always to be dragged back.

As you may recall, Truman was extremely unpopular when he finally left Washington in 1953, thanks largely to the Korean War. Today, however, he is thought to have been a solidly good president, a 'Near Great' even, in the terminology of those surveys of historians they do every now and then.

Presidential legacies are valuable things, too valuable to be left up to historians.

There is much to dislike about President Obama's approach to the financial crisis. But opposition, it seems, will have to come from somewhere other than conservatism. The party out of power is also a party out of touch.

President Obama has been clear about the future that the United States seeks... when it comes to the Asia-Pacific, the United States is all in.

If you Americans aren't from the stone age then explain to me how your president is a ****ing pterodactyl

The President's decisions make the weather, and if he is great enough, change the climate, too.

Oh, if only I could be President and Congress, too, just for ten minutes.

A President has a great chance; his position is almost that of a king and a prime minister rolled into one.

I must be wanting to be President. Every young man does. But I won't let myself think of it; I must not, because if I do, I will begin to work for it; I'll be careful, calculating, cautious in word and act, and so - I'll beat myself.

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Don't hit at all if you can help it; don't hit a man if you can possibly avoid it; but if you do hit him, put him to sleep.

I don't think any President ever enjoyed himself more than I did. Moreover, I don't think any ex-President ever enjoyed himself more.

No other President ever enjoyed the Presidency as I did.