Quotes About Presidency

One of the roles of the Presidency is to lead a political party. Having a President in office is usually a huge advantage to a party because it gives the party a mouthpiece and an advocate at the highest level.

There's always an element of self delusion among people who believe they ought to be President. There's an underestimation of your opponent and an overestimation of your own abilities. This is compatible with being rich and powerful, the idea that we were blessed by God because we deserve to be blessed.

It's not easy to have the job of president. It's not easy to run for it. And it's not a job for the feint of heart.

It's going to be hard for someone like me to run for president.

Who knows - I would like to think that I'd be a fantastic president, and I'd be extremely levelheaded, and I'd be very fair, and I wouldn't persecute people, and I'd listen to the people that disagreed with me and all the rest of it, but who knows.

I believe together, with the OAS, everybody condemned the coup d'etat, and everybody is demanding that President Zelaya should go back to the presidency, and they should call for general elections and realize an election. That's what we want. And I believe that President Obama made the right decisions condemning the coup d'etat.

President Obama hasn't been elected by the American people in order to be pleasant to Russia.

What made me decide to run was the dire state of the economy and the non-leadership of President Obama. At that point in time, my campaign put a mustache on Obama as part of the national campaign drive.

There was something so empowering about having President Obama in office because I know that for many of us, that's something that we never thought that we'd see in our lifetime.

The small moments I've had to talk with President Obama, I've told him, 'I get it.' His presidency was in some ways almost overshadowed by the fact that he was the first black president.

Now that President Trump is a reality, I happily have been giving him a chance to see how he does.

I'll always respect that institution of the presidency, and I'll respect President Trump.

President Trump used the office of the Presidency to solicit foreign interference in our elections for his own personal, political benefit.

Joe Biden cannot leave the lives of those on death row in the hands of future presidents. If he truly opposes the death penalty, he must do everything in his power to stop it for good.

I think a lot of presidents learn to be president by being president.

Richard Nixon had a kind of Walter Mitty fantasy life. He was a man with a grandiose thoughts: dreams of not simply being president but maybe becoming one of the truly great presidents of American history.

Presidents have to learn how to adapt. Every president comes into the job; it's different than they expect. They must adapt.

American presidents get to make lots of choices, with one critical exception: what awaits them in the in-box on top of the desk in the Oval Office.

Calvin Coolidge was one of the best presidents. Why? Because he did absolutely nothing.

George H. W. Bush

If in doubt, move decisions up to the President.

The issues that cross a president's desk are never easy. The easy questions don't even get to the president.

The day Dick Cheney is going to run for president, I'll kill myself. All we need is one more liar.

I'm not convinced that Nixon would have survived in office if he'd burned the tapes, but I do believe he would have served out his presidency if he'd never made them in the first place.