Quotes About Politics

If you look at where presidents come from, they're former governors or senators.

Presidents should do whatever possible and practical to encourage an environment of cooperation and bipartisanship. And they should maintain a certain level of decorum, diplomacy and decency. But, at the end of the day, presidents get elected to enact change.

At the start of first terms, presidents invariably have a measure of goodwill.

Americans almost never elect presidents on the basis of foreign policy.

The job of the president of the United States is to talk to the public, is to explain to them. Now, some presidents talk too much, like Bill Clinton. Some presidents try to talk but don't know how, like George Bush senior.

We have at least learned that the offspring of presidents don't necessarily make good politicians themselves.

There's never been an entertainer that can take two warring parties and have both presidents stand on the stage and hold hands.

I've always given presidents the benefit of the doubt on their nominees.

Frankly, Christians have not always made good presidents.

I've had presidents in my lifetime - and I'm old enough to have seen several - that I really detested, but they're still my president. I've had presidents that I've really liked.

America can change its presidents, but the world doesn't change.

I think different presidents have different ways of governing. We just have to respect that.

I think that the great presidents have always been a little more clever.

I think that, ultimately, my father-in-law will change the United States for the better, restore pride to our country and go down in history as one of the greatest Presidents.

Our country is fortunate to have Bill Barr, a man of integrity who has served two U.S. Presidents, as our Attorney General.

I've worked closely with presidents, especially with President Obama, and I realized that what good leaders do at the national level is no different than what we do at the local level.

The press is the enemy.

Every President hates the Press.

If I get to be president, what can I do anyway? With Congress and the press, what chance do I have to make basic changes?

I don't know if Gary Johnson is out there doing a campaign, actually. I think he's talking to press a little bit, but I don't think they hold events.

Message to Obama: Fighting the Clinton machine won't be as easy as picking up favorable press clips.

If he'd been negotiating Obamacare, Lincoln would have made the infamous 'Cornhusker Kickback' deal - $100 million in Medicaid funds for Nebraska to secure a Senator's vote - in a heartbeat, even if the press howled as it did when Barack Obama agreed to it, forcing its cancellation.

The press doesn't just cover presidential campaigns, they influence them by making arbitrary decisions about who is 'top tier' and merits coverage.

The American Jewish left gets a lot of press time. But the American Jewish right does not. And in many ways, the American Jewish right is every bit as well-organized and perhaps better funded than the American Jewish left. And they also come out with criticism.