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Quotes About Presidency

Of course I want to be president, I want to win, but I also want to be sincere.
~ Ksenia Sobchak
No one ever complained about Facebook for a single day until Donald Trump was president.
~ Brad Parscale
People feel the results of the Trump presidency every single day.
~ Lara Trump
I reached a situation in which I cannot conduct the presidency.
~ Roh Moo-hyun
A Trump presidency - neutral between dictatorships and democracies, opposed to free trade, skeptical of traditional U.S. defense alliances, hostile to immigration - would mark the collapse of the entire architecture of the U.S.-led post-World War II global order.
~ Bret Stephens
A skill required to be president is to explain to the American people any given thing they do.
~ Jim Lehrer
I've never liked that man from the day Grace married him, and the fact he's become President of the United States makes no difference.' - Lemira Barrett Goodhue, mother-in-law of Calvin Coolidge
~ Bill Bryson
In the corner of the room, the triumvirate of my top aides sits in observation: the chief of staff, Carolyn Brock; Danny Akers, my oldest friend and White House counsel; and Jenny Brickman, my deputy chief of staff and senior political adviser. All of them stoic, stone-faced, worried. Not one of them wanted me to do this. It was their unanimous conclusion that I was making the biggest mistake of my presidency.
~ Bill Clinton
Bill Clinton
~ triumvirate
You would think there is a higher bar than having a Facebook page to run for president.
~ Bill Maher
Trump is the wrong man for the job.
~ Bob Woodward
The important thing is the presidency, Nixon continued. If need be, save the presidency from the President.
~ Bob Woodward
All presidencies are audience driven, but Trump's central audience was often himself. He kept giving himself reviews. Most were passionately positive. Much of his brain was in the press box.
~ Bob Woodward
The tweets were not incidental to his presidency. They were central
~ Bob Woodward
The tweets were not incidental to his presidency. They were central. He ordered printouts of his recent tweets that had received a high number of likes, 200,000 or more. He studied them to find the common themes in the most successful. He seemed to want to become more strategic, find out whether success was tied to the subject, the language or simply the surprise that the president was weighing in. The most effective tweets were often the most shocking.
~ Bob Woodward
All presidencies are audience driven, but Trump's central audience was often himself.
~ Bob Woodward
Biden should have said, "Trump is what happens when you don't have enough Washington experience. Trump is what happens when you don't know your way around Capitol Hill like I do. For those of you who miss the Obama years, I'm your guy.
~ Bob Woodward
At 12:01 p.m., several Secret Service agents began reducing their setup around the estate. Trump was no longer president. No more access to the nuclear "football." The security footprint shrunk in an instant.
~ Bob Woodward
Rumors have dogged the course of the Anford presidency, his infrequent appearances and moments of public confusion leading to rumors that he is suffering from a brain tumor or degenerative muscular disorder. The White House claims this latest round of tests is merely part of a routine medical checkup, and doctors at Bethesda Naval Hospital are, as usual, silent on the state of the president's health. . . .
~ Tad Williams
Later in his presidency, Eisenhower would feel compelled to rebuke a panel of hawkish advisers, caustically observing, "You can't have this kind of war. There just aren't enough bulldozers to scrape the bodies off the streets.
~ Kai Bird
Of the fellows least likely to be president, you'd have to vote Jack No. 1.
~ George Smathers
Unless and until Barack Obama addresses the full depth of Americans' anger with his full arsenal of policy smarts and political gifts, his presidency and, worse, our economy will be paralyzed.
~ Frank Rich
three years, John F. Kennedy enjoyed a relatively quiet presidency, with no major roadblocks. With Lyndon Baines. Johnson (LBJ) as a supposedly loyal Vice-President, JFK grew complacent.
~ Frank White
There should be no bitterness or hate where the sole thought is the welfare of the United States of America. No man can occupy the office of President without realizing that he is President of all the people.
~ Franklin D. Roosevelt