Presidential Quotes - Page 11

I am a Ford, not a Lincoln.

In the field of world policy; I would dedicate this nation to the policy of the good neighbor.

Hillary Clinton doesn't look presidential.

I feel in the depths of my soul that it is the highest, most sacred, and most irreversible part of my obligation to preserve the union of these states, although it may cost me my life.

There is no indispensable man.

There is such a thing as a man being too proud to fight.

The West Wing seems to be feeding the myth about how presidential politics are.

Declare church and state forever separate and distinct; but each free within their proper spheres.

An injured friend is the bitterest of foes.

But presidential approval also became a surrogate measure of national unity and patriotism.

It is an incalculable added pleasure to any one's sum of happiness if he or she grows to know, even slightly and imperfectly, how to read and enjoy the wonder-book of nature.

Of all the questions which can come before this nation, short of the actual preservation of its existence in a great war, there is none which compares in importance with the great central task of leaving this land even a better land for our descendants than it is for us.

In the '90s, there was scant presidential leadership and insufficient domestic political mobilization for foreign policy grounded in human rights.

During my first press conference as president, in answer to a direct question, I pointed out that, as good Marxist-Leninists, the Soviet leaders have openly and publicly declared that the only morality they recognize is that which will further their cause, which is world revolution.

You cannot win a battle in any arena merely by defending yourself.

With the Republican Party`s presidential front-runner proposing that all Muslims should be banned from entering the United States, that perhaps there ought to be a national registry of Muslims, that we ought to looking into Muslims having to carry government ID cards that state their religion, now, the word fascist is being used to describe this ascending and leading Republican politician.

It's amazing what you can accomplish if you simply refuse to quit.

You ain't learnin' nothin' when you're talkin'.

Come now. let us reason together.

The crotch, down where your nuts hang, is always a little too tight.

Sooner or later, I need to begin to do what any candidate does in a presidential race; I need to begin to win.

From the 12th Congressional District Hopeful William Jefferson Clinton during the Nixon investigations. I wanted to share some information I've turned up regarding two of your Clinton quotes.

As you can imagine I'm disappointed as anything that I was not selected to be the presidential running mate. And I find it continually appalling that it would be a radical thing to have a woman on the ticket.

I have commenced my auspicious reign and am in quiet possession of the Presidential Mansion... this winter I intend to do something in the way of entertaining that shall be the admiration and talk of all Washington world.

Lincoln, steeped in the Bible and Shakespeare, set an impossibly high bar for presidential prose.