Quotes About President

Lincoln managed to both respect religion and parody it

One of Brown's slaveholding hostages at Harpers Ferry, Lewis Washington, a descendant of the nation's first president

Had Trump's enemies deliberately created chaos in order to smear the President's name? It certainly seemed that way. As

If America wants to retain its position as a global power, its president must listen to the people and show strong leadership at this turning point in human history.

Bobby Kennedy was the president's devoted partner, as well as the nation's top lawman. It has long been a mystery why he apparently did nothing to investigate his brother's shocking death on November 22, 1963.

In the history of the AIDS epidemic, President Reagan's legacy is one of silence,

No African American speaker had ever faced this kind of captive audience, composed of all the leadership of the federal government in one place; and no such speaker would ever again until Barack Obama was inaugurated president in January 2009. Douglass, a master ironist about America

The president has listened to some people, the so-called Vulcans in the White House, the ideologues. But you know, unlike the Vulcans of Star Trek who made the decisions based on logic and fact, these guys make it on ideology. These aren't Vulcans. There are Klingons in the White House. But unlike the real Klingons of Star Trek, these Klingons have never fought a battle of their own. Don't let faux Klingons send real Americans to war.

No need to shoot the breeze with Nixon when the surf was so great

One of the most important qualities of a president is the ability to inspire, to bring people together for the common good.

The White House is giving George W. Bush intelligence briefings. You know? some of these jokes just write themselves.

We know that the Russian's interfered in our election and they did it to benefit President Trump. The intelligence agencies confirmed that.

We need a president with tremendous intelligence, smarts, cunning, strength and stamina.

My father not only has the strength and ability necessary to be our next president, but also the kindness and compassion that will enable him to be the leader that this country needs.

One black man, overcome by emotion, dropped to his knees, prompting the president to conduct a curbside colloquium on the meaning of emancipation. "Don't kneel to me," said the president. "That is not right. You must kneel to God only, and thank Him for the liberty you will enjoy hereafter.

Lincoln dumped his bland second-in-command, Hannibal Hamlin, for Johnson

Letty, it's just a business. Don't get emotional about it." She grinned. "You're a fine one to talk. You're the most emotional man I know." "The hell I am," he muttered. "I have a lot more self-control than you do, Madam President." "Let's not argue about that," Letty said

Through his mastery of storytelling techniques, he has managed to separate his character, in the public mind, from his actions as president. ... He has, in short, mesmerized us with that steady gaze.

He mispronounces the word hombres in the style of the US president who, attempting to call migrants bad men, inadvertently referred to them as bad hunger instead. It's a joke now, full of irony. Bad hunger. El comandante toes the line.

They discussed several other options, including sending it to the president to help him run the government. But they didn't think he would want money meant for a bribe, either. In the end, they snuck upstairs to the bathroom, where they ripped up the five-dollar bill and flushed the pieces down the toilet, laughing so hard they almost woke up Lydia.

It's a complex relationship when your dad happened to be president and you are president and then you have all the amateur psychology that goes on when people try to speculate about motivations.

Obama wants to be thought of as the president who freed us from foreign oil. But if he doesn't show some political courage, he may well be remembered as the president who cooked the planet.

Among all the tests President Obama faced in his first term, his biggest failure was climate change.

Officer Rose was the president of the Boston Police Patrolmen's Association at the time, and he was furious.