Quotes About Presidents

I write about presidents. That means I write about guys - so far. I'm interested in the people closest to them, the people they love and the people they've lost... I don't want to limit it to what they did in the office, but what happens at home and in their interactions with other people.

Botswana had three successive good presidents who served their legal terms, who did well for their countries - three, not one.

I have been chastised by a president, I have antagonized and angered presidents, and I have taken on my own leadership.

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

Occasionally, you see presidents come in and provide a clear change in direction of leadership.

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

Historians sometimes view presidents very differently from the way the public did at the time. Sometimes they don't.

Too few presidents have steeped themselves not just in Lincoln's words but his deeds, which is why Obama's acquaintance with the great man is so compelling - especially since, like President-elect Lincoln, Obama will take office at a perilous time.

I don't play golf with presidents.

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'm of the minority opinion that presidents should be given more power for less time.

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

Presidents going live from the Oval Office have used that platform to inform the American public, and also to do one of the most important parts of their job: to inspire the best in us.

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

We have seen presidents from both parties express their frustrations with the press. That's absolutely normal.

Based on history, many presidents come into office with lots of plans, and an agenda and things they want to start and an order in which they want to do those things.

When presidents decide to litigate an issue to protect their policy decisions, they are more likely to act judiciously, and with an eye toward compromise, because they can see the larger implications for the legacy of their office.

The American people want their presidents to articulate big ideas and leave the details to the eggheads.

Presidents are only seen on August 15 and January 26. Who knows what they do for five years other than this?

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.

We Americans think quite highly of ourselves, and nothing makes us think more of ourselves than our romantic view of our presidents.

All of the American presidents, certainly all of the notable ones, have been pretty original.