Quotes About Presidency

For President Bush, the first, the 41st president, George Herbert Walker Bush, I spent all 4 years of his presidency on the staff for the National Security Council.

I think, ultimately, the post-Reagan era will end with Scott Walker being elected the 45th President of the United States.

Romney and Ryan would do a much better job running the country, and that's what everybody needs to know.

Obama kept blacks broke and angry the entire eight years he was in office.

I don't think I'd have been as good as Bruce was. He was a better JFK than I would have been.

There's a bigger difference between the first and second Bush administrations than there is between Bush and Obama. That's really true.

When Barack Obama was asked about his lack of executive experience in 2008, he pointed to his successful campaign as proof he could manage the presidency.

When you look at the development of the American presidency, you see that the presidents who have had the greatest impact are the ones who fit their times most successfully.

The people of the Sudan expect a lot from the institution of the presidency, and we should live up to their expectations.

The Sudan bombing is a blot on the Clinton presidency, and a blot it ought to remain.

When I was a kid, Eisenhower had been President forever, and all of a sudden, everything in the world was all about Jack Kennedy. I was 12, interested in politics; my father was from Massachusetts, had an accent like Kennedy.

Barring public demand, any person who pursues the presidency out of personal ambition must be suffering from a basic genetic defect.

A person seeking to be the President of the United States should not suggest violence in any way.

The IOC presidency has been suggested to me.

In an otherwise perfectly mediocre presidency, the one savvy thing John F. Kennedy did, at least for his own reputation, was to bring these Cambridge intellectuals on board.

The Adams presidency, in fact, might be the classic example of the historical truism that inherited circumstances define the parameters within which presidential leadership takes shape, that history shapes presidents, rather than vice versa.

Franklin D. Roosevelt is no crusader. He is no tribune of the people. He is no enemy of entrenched privilege. He is a pleasant man who, without any important qualifications for the office, would very much like to be President.

You can always get the truth from an American statesman after he has turned seventy, or given up all hope of the Presidency.

Whether I am the candidate for the presidency, or president, or stay in the Senate, I regard our obligation not to please you but to serve you, and in my judgment, in 1960, a candidate for the presidency should be willing to give the truth to the people, and the truth is that what we are now doing is not good enough.

In November 2004, the last person on the planet who expected Barack Obama to run for president in 2008 was Barack Obama.

The time King spent at Tattnall Prison would change political history. It was the fall of 1960 and John Kennedy and Richard Nixon were locked in a tight battle for the presidency.

Clinton exploited and expanded the dictatorial potential of the U.S. presidency.

Europeans often ask, and Americans do not always explain, how it happens that this great office [the presidency], the greatest in the world, unless we except the Papacy, to which any man can rise by his own merits, is not more frequently filled by great and striking men.

The Presidency alone unites the conjectures of the public.