Quotes About President

We should have a strong president. Strong enough to resist the temptation of taking power that a president shouldn't have.

The president's come out with rules that say 'no new coal-fired power plants.'

As your president, I will do everything in my power to protect our LGBTQ citizens from the violence and oppression of the hateful foreign ideology. Believe me.

The most intimidating world leader was Lyndon Johnson, who became U.S. President when John Kennedy was assassinated. He exulted in this power and liked to inspire fear.

It looks like President Bush will be handing over power to the Iraqis by June 30th. That's amazing and not only that, but it looks like he'll be handing over power to the Democrats by November 2nd.

The kind of president we need has little to do with ideology and more to do with a willingness to wield power to moral ends.

If men like [Ken] Starr and his allies could ignore the Constitution and abuse power for ideological and malicious ends to topple a President, I feared for my country.

You are apprehensive of monarchy; I, of aristocracy. I would therefore have given more power to the President and less to the Senate.

Congress in the immigration law gives the president the power to restrict or suspend the entry of people he may deem appropriate.

I was the first Republican in the country to support the president's Clean Power Plan.

No president ever had more power than [Franklin Delano] Roosevelt.

If Congress were to censure, fine or otherwise try to punish a president, it would dramatically alter the balance of power between the branches.

I would love to play the President. Give me the suit, give me the power, give me the oval office. That would be really fun.

Given the daunting challenges that we face, it's important that president elect Obama is prepared to really take power and begin to rule day one.

When you're president, you have more power to help more people, but you also are the prisoner of circumstances as well, and countervailing political forces more.

Our President has given symbolic support to the National Day of Prayer but I believe that our nation needs an impassioned call to our collective knees.

President George Bush declared a National Day of Prayer for Peace. This was after he had carefully arranged and started the war.

'Mr. President I am praying for you. 'Which way Senator?'

As President Kallio signed the document that gave the Moscow delegation authority to conclude the war on Moscow's terms, he growled, "May the hand wither that is forced to sign such a document as this." A few months later, the old man suffered a stroke that left him paralyzed in his right arm.

The Russians' wanton though often ineffectual attacks on civilians generated a wave of moral outrage all over the world. Typical was the reaction of former U.S. president Herbert Hoover, who denounced the Russian air attacks as a throwback to "the morals and butchery of Genghis Khan.

President Johnson did not want the Vietnam War to broaden. He wanted the North Vietnamese to leave their brothers in the South alone.

Here is the answer which I will give to President Roosevelt…. Give us the tools, and we will finish the job.

I come from the South and I know what war is, for I have seen its terrible wreckage and ruin. It is easy for me as President to declare war. I do not have to fight, and neither do the gentlemen on the Hill who now clamor for it. It is some poor farmer's boy, or the son of some poor widow - who will have to do the fighting and dying.

The President had not come to ask for help. He did not want help. He did not need help. The President had not come to beg. He did not want charity. He did not need charity. The President had come only to hold them to their word. To have them keep their promises. Honour their pledges. The president had come only to collect. To collect what was his.