Quotes About President

I just want to say that I want to endorse Tan Jee Say for President because I think he really has what it takes.

Members of Congress are somewhat reluctant to tangle with a president who seems to have the backing of the American people.

I've analyzed the best I can... and I have not found an impeachable offense, and therefore resignation is not an acceptable course.

People have got to know whether or not their President is a crook. Well, I'm not a crook.

Under the doctrine of separation of powers, the manner in which the president personally exercises his assigned executive powers is not subject to questioning by another branch of government.

Unless a president can protect the privacy of the advice he gets, he cannot get the advice he needs.

You must pursue this investigation of Watergate even if it leads to the president. I'm innocent. You've got to believe I'm innocent. If you don't, take my job.

No president in history has been more vilified or was more vilivied during the time he was President than Lincoln. Those who knew him, his secretaries, have written that he was deeply hurt by what was said about him and drawn about him, but on the other hand, Lincoln had the great strength of character never to display it, always able to stand tall and strong and firm no matter how harsh or unfair the criticism might be. These elements of greatness, of course, inspire us all today.

The President can bomb anybody he likes.

I got the job the way I get all my jobs," Rockefeller said later of his appointment as coordinator of inter-American affairs. "I thought up something that had to be done and somebody"—in this instance, the president of the United States—"said, 'O.K. it's your idea. Now let's see you make it work.

Only in 1962, when President John F. Kennedy issued an executive order prohibiting the use of federal funds to support racial discrimination in housing, did the FHA cease financing subdivision developments whose builders openly refused to sell to black buyers.

For the next two years, journalists would dishonestly report that the U.S. president had called neo-Nazis 'fine people'.

Sound familiar? Rutherford B. Hayes was someone who thought that attracting opposition from nearly every direction meant that he was right. James A. Garfield, watching the president flounder in big things and small, thought that the "impression is deepening that he is not large enough for the place he holds" and that his election "has been an almost fatal blow to his party.

Course I didn't want to be a doctor. I was going to be president only I kept it secret.

I'm afraid the camera got smashed against the side of the Space Hotel, Mr. President," Shuckworth replied. The President said a very rude word into the microphone and ten million children across the nation began repeating it gleefully and got smacked by their parents.

Only the President was allowed to call her Nanny. The President's famous cat, Mrs. Taubsypuss, was also in the room. There was absolute silence now in the Presidential study. All eyes were riveted on the T.V. screen as the small glass object, with its booster rockets firing, slid smoothly up behind the giant Space Hotel. "They're going to link up!" shouted the President. "They're going on board our Space Hotel!

The President sucked in his breath sharply. He also sucked in a big fly that happened to be passing at the time. He choked.

There was the President's Chief Financial Advisor, who was standing in the middle of the room trying to balance the budget on top of his head, but it kept falling off.

The President said a very rude word into the microphone and ten million children across the nation began repeating it gleefully and got smacked by their parents.

In later decades, the role of the Vice President would be gradually and substantially enlarged—at the discretion of the President—but at the time of the 1960 election, that was where the office stood. No legislative powers, no executive powers, and obstacles, hitherto insurmountable obstacles, to obtaining any—except what the President might choose to give

The newspaper columnist James Reston wrote that "President Kennedy's eloquence was designed to make men think; President Johnson's hammer blows are designed to make men act.

that "pusillanimous Presbyterian parson" in the White House. "'Too proud to fight'! What sort of talk is that? It requires pride in order to fight. A coward slinks away with his tail between his legs. Brian, we need Teddy Roosevelt back in there!

You don't correct a president. You merely compliment them on their wisdom in seeking your counsel.

I guess if you were going to do something so stupid as to be president, you would want to go for something big." "I think so. The temptation is there. I mean, you wouldn't do it thinking, Hey, now that I'm president I'll play it safe, hope nothing happens. Would you?