Quotes About President

I worked in the Bush campaign, and some of us would darkly joke, "Anybody can become president when you get more votes. To lose by half a million and become president takes professionals." It seemed funny at the time. Less so now.

Today, in the age of Donald Trump, the most openly racist president since Andrew Johnson or his hero Andrew Jackson (to the extent a know-nothing narcissist is capable of having a hero), many Republicans who find Trump repulsive or at least consider him abrasive and uncouth hark back to Reagan as the standard compared with whom Trump is woefully inadequate.

The vast majority of Republican elected officials know Donald Trump is unfit to be president and pretend otherwise.

Evangelicals still believe in the commandment, "Thou shalt not have sex with a porn star."…However, whether the president violated that commandment or not is totally irrelevant for our support of him. —Robert Jeffress

Donald Trump is the most isolationist president since Herbert Hoover, attacking NATO and ridiculing America's need to support allies. But he still supports increased military spending and, in a typically boastful lie, claims that when he became president, the military was running out of ammunition.

When Reagan took office, the national debt was $934 billion; when he left, it was $2.7 trillion.

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Donald Trump's mind is that tabloid you see at the checkout counter of the grocery store claiming that aliens impregnated Chelsea Clinton so the offspring could become president and turn the United States over to the Federation. Few Republicans challenge Trump on his conspiracy obsessions, treating him like an addled senior citizen who calls his congressman's office demanding to know why the CIA is talking to him through his dentures.

Must our imaginations be so feeble as that, Thomas? If the Union dies, as our old president says, it will be from lack of imagination… It will be from Southern hubris, and our love of wealth, and the brutality of our hearts!

The dangers of one-man rule—of a president who would seek to "perpetuate himself in office"—could be realized, he wrote, only in "the last stage of corrupted morals and political depravity." And at that grim point, term limits would be of no consequence.

There was no such thing as mixed-race in the South, or in America for that matter. The whole country had called a mixed-race man our "first black president.

As president, he explained why he would pardon soldiers who deserted for cowardice: "It would frighten the poor devils to death to shoot them.

Did you know that Lincoln liked popcorn, and oysters, and a good strong cup of coffee?

The full and free pardon granted by President Buchanan was received resentfully by most of the Mormons, who still felt that the sending of the army had been a gross insult to them. It was they who should have pardoned the President, they thought. But it had worked out well for them, and Brigham Young had conducted affairs in a masterful manner; his word would be law to them, regardless of who the civil officers were.

The President of the United States is addressed by nickname (his or his enemies') before the election and "Mr. President" after taking office. Everybody else in Washington is styled "The Honorable" to make up for what everybody outside of Washington calls them.

People in Indiana have known me for 25 years. They've known George Bush four.

Indiana really treated me well. The organization, the GM, the president were pretty cool with me.

Congress should clarify that a sitting president is not subject to criminal indictment while in office.

Whether the Constitution allows indictment of a sitting president is debatable.

The blue-chip Dow Jones Industrial Average has closed higher in 17 of the 21 sessions since Donald Trump was elected president, with about a dozen record closes so far as it continues marching higher.

Income inequality has gotten worse under President Barack Obama.

Every first-term president has to learn something after he comes into office. Nobody can be completely ready for the inevitable crises.

You could argue that Barack Obama faced in '08 a situation as bad as any president since the Great Depression. What Obama inherited from the Bush administration, we all remember, was just an absolute global catastrophe.

Donald Trump is an innocent child of God, and the democratically chosen president-elect of the United States. We must deeply bow before the first and deeply respect the second.