Quotes About President

Some observers, particularly Southerners, were critical of this show of force. "I have seen today such a sight as I could never have believed possible at the capital of my country," one Southern reporter wrote, "an inauguration of a President surrounded by armed soldiery, with loaded pieces and fixed bayonets." Another observer reported that the procession "seemed more like escorting a prisoner to his doom than a President to his inauguration.

In every city the President visits, massive C-17 cargo planes arrive the day before—always at 1 p.m.—delivering ready-to-build octagonal saferooms to the hotel. In the President's room, the Service shoves all the couches and chairs against one wall, builds the saferoom panel by panel, then rolls in wide pieces of ballistic glass to cover each window. If

When President Rutledge had decided to mount the Apex Project to battle terrorists on their own terms, he wooed Gary away from the Bureau to put him in charge.

It was perfectly innocent.' That's what Gary Hart said. One day he's running for president, the next he's sitting in an office somewhere making paper-clip chains.

As of this writing, twenty-six women have accused Trump of sexual misconduct, including rape, since the 1970s. The allegations didn't stifle his growing presence.

How does one write about a president who uttered words appealing to white nationalists in 2020 and incited a violent insurrection against the U.S. Congress, but do so in the analytical language that one might use to describe tax policy?

Although Cheney and a few other Republicans broke with the president and voted to impeach, most did not.

The Trump era conclusively proved that impeachment is not a legal process and should not be discussed as one.

With the NDAA, his failure to close Guantanamo Bay and the ramping use of drones, President Obama looks suspiciously like President Bush, a man on a quest for American Empire.

Monsieur le president, I know what I'm saying. This affair cost people their lives, and now here they are, wrangling on behalf of these swine!' Catherine's outburst is at odds with her consistently measured demeanour during the course of the lengthy investigation

president was "a simple man, prone to make up his mind quickly and decisively, perhaps too quickly—a thorough American." This was not a great president, "not distinguished at all . . . not Lincolnesque, but an instinctive, common, hearty-natured man.

Afterwards, the President was heard to mutter, "Blood on his hands, dammit, he hasn't half as much blood on his hands as I have. You just don't go around bellyaching about it." He later told Dean Acheson, "I don't want to see that son-of-a-bitch in this office ever again.

Leo Szilard was frantic. The peripatetic physicist knew time was running out. Atomic bombs would soon be ready, and he expected that they would be used on Japanese cities. Having been the first to urge President Roosevelt to initiate a program to build atomic weapons, he now made repeated attempts to prevent their use.

with such delicate euphemisms, did the president of Harvard University select civilians as the target of the world's first atomic bomb.

No one can be certain of Oppenheimer's reaction had he learned that on the eve of the Hiroshima bombing, the president knew the Japanese were "looking for peace," and that the military use of atomic bombs on cities was an option rather than a necessity for ending the war in August

You know I'm running for president? I have to ask, because kids sometimes don't pay as much attention to politics as they should.", FADE by Kailin Gow

Electing the first Catholic president, my grandfather, in 1960, did not mean that religious intolerance disappeared from our land.

The president really shouldn't be involved in terms of dictating what course the investigation should take.

The nation certainly would have been better off if President Clinton could have focused on Osama bin Laden without being distracted by the Paula Jones sexual harassment case and its criminal investigation offshoots.

I'm calling for an end to the investigations about President Trump's campaign colluding with the Russians. There's been no evidence of it. I don't think that should continue.

I don't want to close the door that if any of us were president of the United States that we would sit idly by and watch something like the Holocaust go down. I don't want to close the door on the United States involving themselves and putting a stop to that. Can we spend money on that? Yeah, I think so.

In a case involving his private conduct, a President should be treated like any private citizen. The rule of law requires no more - and no less.

I said I'm the president of Iraq... I did not say deposed.

I think the great irony of history will be that it was a secular billionaire from New York who turned out the be the most faith-friendly president in history.