Quotes About Presidency

Barrack told him that if he continued on this path he would create problems for a post–White House life, in which he was going to face existing investigations without the institution of the presidency behind him. Barrack asked him to think about his business, about everything he had built over the decades and the support he still needed.

She thought Trump was going to be reinstated as President as soon as Biden was convicted of child molestation.

When a man is finally boxed and he has no choice, he begins to decorate his box. So Hazel, condemned to the presidency, since he could not escape it, began to ornament it. A man can climb high on the steps of responsibility.

John F. Kennedy brought style and charisma to the White House and a first family that captivated the country: a handsome, witty president, an elegant first lady, and two adorable young children.

The presidency is temporary-but the family is permanent.

George Washington, who said to his father, Dad, if I never tell I lie, how am I ever gonna become President? Never got a dinner!

My father was not a failure. After all, he was the father of a president of the United States.

I think the presidency is a bad way to measure the effective campaign finance, because in the presidency, there is so much publicity, there's so much money floating around.

George W. Bush did an incredible job in the presidency, defending us from freedom.

No man will ever bring out of the Presidency the reputation which carries him into it. To myself, personally, it brings nothing but increasing drudgery and daily loss of friends.

From 1836 to 1868, only one candidate was elected to the presidency more than once—Abraham Lincoln.

Thank God Donald Trump would never be in the White House.

President Ford was a devoted, decent man of impeccable integrity who put service to his country before his own self interest. He helped heal our nation during a time of crisis, provided steady leadership and restored people's faith in the presidency and in government.

Not that they were that anxious to see Ronnie as President; they were afraid if he didn't get elected, he'd go back to acting.

I'm not going to have some reporters pawing through our papers. We are the president.

I don't care what anybody says, I think that George Bush is absolutely the right president to oversea the end of the world.

Pinochet and Barack Obama both have the same primary goal, and that's to be president and stay president as long as allowed.

Bill Clinton's political formula for seizing the presidency was simple. He made money tight in the ghettos and let it flow free on Wall Street.

On economics, crime, and welfare, the Clinton presidency offered plenty for conservatives to like. They never forgave him for it.

Though their policies may have shared the same spirit, there were serious differences between Calvin Coolidge and Donald Trump. Coolidge was a model of reticence and comportment. Trump was not. Coolidge stood for the "American" way of doing things and presided over a "normal" government in a "normal" time. Trump stood outside the system, even during the years in which he was president. He and his supporters were not preserving the status quo.

Trump's presidency emboldened the forces within the conservative movement that had long sought to expel the neoconservatives and libertarians.

The domestic lesson of the 1950–53 war that wrecked Harry Truman's presidency was that, though Americans were willing to pay other people to die combating 'Reds' in faraway Asian countries, they resisted seeing their own boys sacrificed.

JFK's great virtue, and the essential difference between him and George W. Bush, was that he had an instinctive appreciation for the chaotic forces of history.

there were places he could not go without the power of the presidency behind him to open doors. That was the practical benefit of these friendships, and its impact was felt literally all around the world.