Quotes About Presidency

Our aim, during our Presidency in the next six months will be to lead this challenge, to show that Europe can function in a mature and responsible way, to start delivering tangible results that show we are taking people's concerns seriously.

When the President does it, that means that it's not illegal.

When the President does it, that means that it is not illegal.

Certainly in the next 50 years we shall see a woman president, perhaps sooner than you think. A woman can and should be able to do any political job that a man can do.

The presidency has many problems, but boredom is the least of them.

One of the wise, practical people around the table" urged Johnson not to press for civil rights in his first speech, because there was no chance of passage, and a President shouldn't waste his power on lost causes—no matter how worthy the cause might be. "The presidency has only a certain amount of coinage to expend, and you oughtn't to expend it on this," he said. "Well, what the hell's the presidency for?" Lyndon Johnson replied.

On July 2, 1960, a few weeks before that year's Democratic National Convention, former President Harry Truman publicly stated that John F Kennedy—who had won enough delegates to be chosen his party's candidate for the presidency—was too young and inexperienced for the job.

The relationship of black Americans to Obama is sociologically riveting.

I want to be the president for all Americans, regardless of your political beliefs, where you come from, what you look like, your religion.

Seriously, I do not think I am fit for the Presidency.

I have great respect for the office of the presidency and I really do believe that Donald Trump wants to do a good job.

The presidency is temporary-but the family is permanent.

Blaming Trump and the rise of the alt-right for antiblackness conveniently forgets that BLM came into existence during the "golden age" of the Obama presidency.

Booker T. also made a point of giving lengthy interviews to journalists because newspaper articles were solid forums for his ideas. "Do you think the time might ever come, that any circumstance might ever arise, by which a black man might become president of the United States?" the Memphis Commercial Appeal asked him point-blank in a conversation about the future of the black man in America. "I should hope so," was Booker T.'s reply.

No doubt, the White House thinks the American people know Obama's story. But since the Inauguration, we've seen only the president's present: his perfect family, his Ivy League elegance, his effortless mastery of complex issues. We never see him sweat. And we forget that he ever had to struggle.

México ha transitado del presidencialismo omnipotente a la presidencia incompetente.

President Reagan didn't always know what he knew.

I'll be long gone before some smart person ever figures out what happened inside this Oval Office.

The presidency is not merely an administrative office...It is pre-eminently a place of moral leadership.

A president either is constantly on top of events or, if he hesitates, events will soon be on top of him. I never felt that I could let up for a moment.

No easy problems ever come to the President of the United States. If they are easy to solve, someone else has solved them.

This became distinctly manifest when the so-called "Republican" Convention assembled in Chicago, on May 16, 1860, to nominate a candidate for the Presidency. It was a purely sectional body. There were a few delegates present, representing an insignificant minority in the "border States," Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, Kentucky, and Missouri; but not one from any State south of the celebrated political line of thirty-six degrees thirty minutes.

I had specially requested my friends (some of whom had thought of putting me in nomination for the Presidency of the United States in 1860) not to permit "my name to be used before the Convention for any nomination whatever." I had been so near the office for four years, while in the Cabinet of Mr. Pierce, that I saw it from behind the scenes, and it was to me an office in no wise desirable.

In the trial and throughout Trump's presidency, there was never any doubt about his character or his conduct—his dishonesty, his arrogance, his ignorance, and his narcissism.