Quotes About Presidents

Presidents always want to do nice, noble, long-run things, and Congress is less keen to do so. We've seen that throughout the history of this country.

Every U.S. president enters office promising stronger ties with our southern neighbors, only to thereupon largely ignore them.

Some of the presidents were great and some of them weren't. I can say that, because I wasn't one of the great presidents, but I had a good time trying to be one, I can tell you that.

Presidents have only two moments of personal seclusion. One is prayer; the other fishing - and they cannot pray all the time!

Lyndon Johnson and Richard Nixon were guilty of unjustified wiretaps, and President John F. Kennedy conducted dubious wiretaps in the first month of his presidency.

the hotline between the presidents of Russia and America is secured via a onetime pad cipher.

How likely is it that America will break its word to defend Israel? Chapter 14 analyzes what America has done to Israel to pressure it to give up His land, since President Bush (41) to President Obama. Suffice it to say that America has been taking actions that are contrary to God's word on this issue, at our peril.

Even the shift to presidents nationwide had its downsides. "The problem is," Canham said, "they confused presidential control for presidential management. What would a bureaucrat know about that?

Executive orders, which are treated as laws passed by Congress, remain on the books and can be used by future presidents. While executive orders can be challenged by lawsuits, repealed or modified by Congress, or repealed by a new executive order, seldom has

My favourite president, and the one I admired most, was Harry Truman.

My father's political heroes were Franklin Roosevelt and Harry Truman.

The difference was you worked for Nixon, and with Ford.

Nowadays even presidents, vice-presidents, and heads of big agencies are opening their minds to accept psychic phenomena, because they know it works.

Sure, it is apparent that presidents are looking at polls, but they are also stepping up on issues. President Clinton stepped up on tobacco. He shaped the polls on the tobacco issue.

I covered two presidents, LBJ and Nixon, who could no longer convince, persuade, or govern, once people had decided they had no credibility, but we seem to be more tolerant now of what I think we should not tolerate.

Presidents and presidential assassins are like Las Vegas and Salt Lake City. Even though one city is all about sin and the other is all about salvation, they are identical, one-dimensional company towns built up by the sheer will of true believers.

Our churches have not discipled people in the last forty years in Christoform power but have instead discipled them into playing Babylon's power games. They have decided who might be their next king, only to realize that kings become wild things. Instead of giving more and more power to presidents, to senators, to representatives, to Washington DC and states and cities and villages and towns, we need to search again for Christoform power.

Presidents today spend more time speaking than they do reading or thinking.

From Jefferson to Jackson to Lincoln to FDR to Reagan, every great president inspires enormous affection and enormous hostility. We'll all be much saner, I think, if we remember that history is full of surprises and things that seemed absolutely certain one day are often unimaginable the next.

Here is a pretty good rule of thumb for Democratic Presidents: if it didn't work for Franklin D. Roosevelt, who won four terms and a World War, it probably won't work for you either.

I am writing now not because past American presidents have always risen to the occasion but because the incumbent American president so rarely does.

presidents were particularly alarmed at the prospect of losing bank supervision duties

The whole issue of healthcare is very complicated. There have been seven Presidents who've tried to get healthcare reform passed.

Presidents make their hard decisions and then abide forever with their mistakes and regrets.