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President Quotes


"If you look at where presidents come from, they're former governors or senators."


"I think President Clinton was probably the brightest President of the 20th century."


"I have just come from the castle, where I have seen the president of the republic, and I can tell you that he has accepted all of my proposals without making any changes."


"We are worried about the size of the deficit, which is why the president is pleased that the House and Senate have followed his lead in cutting the deficit in half over the next five years."


"Of the fellows least likely to be president, you'd have to vote Jack No. 1."



"I was ordained one of the standing High Council in Zion, under the hands of President Joseph Smith."


"At least she's the president of something, which is more than I can say."


"I support the president 100 percent - when he's right."


"President Jimmy Carter was a citizen soldier. Ironically, he was considered weak because he didn't kill anybody and he didn't get anyone killed."


"We are still waiting for the president to introduce a concrete plan. He has just hinted at what he is thinking about doing, but no one has seen a proposal."


"Vice president - it has such a nice ring to it!"


"I certainly know that this relationship could not have continued the way it did, when I was at the Pentagon and the president was obviously at the White House, without Betty."


"What the president announced yesterday, is that somehow magically, if we just continue to prime the pump of taxpayer dollars, we're going to see magically an economic recovery."


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


"If you see the President, tell him from me that whatever happens there will be no turning back."


"President Clinton signed a $10 million deal to write a book by 2003. Isn't that amazing? Yes, and get this, not only that, President Bush signed a $10 million deal to read a book by 2003."


"Clinton was a pretty good president for a Republican."


"I had to perform at the White House for the president, That's always kind of a weird set to try to put together."


"Ronald Reagan was the greatest president of the twentieth century."



"There's never a dearth of reasons to shoot at the President."


"I'm going to be so much better a president for having been at the CIA that you're not going to believe it."


"I would say that President Roosevelt probably was more intimately in touch with the press corps at the White House than President Truman was."


"I must say I am not pleased to have to arrange the Senate schedule around the availability of Senators who are running for President."


"If you don't like the President, it costs you 90 bucks to fly to Washington to picket. If you don't like the Governor, it costs you 60 bucks to fly to Albany to picket. If you don't like me, 90 cents."


"I don't know the answer to that question. I don't think it matters to the fundamental question here because at bottom, this president believes in non-discrimination."


"Apparently, the image of our president is as offensive to MTV as it is to me."


"There were around 1,000 stores when I was made president."


"Two years before the last election you nor anyone else would have predicted that Barack Obama was going to get elected president of the United States."


"I'm glad Reagan is president. Of course, I'm a professional comedian."


"The central question is simply put: What did the president know and when did he know it?"


"As far as my relationship with President Putin is concerned, it's fine."


"Some 43 percent of voters in union households voted for President Bush in 2004, according to exit poll data."


"It's been years, decades, since a president has lost a major trade initiative. That would be bad headlines."


"When George Washington was elected president, there was no national vote."


"The President then proceeded to read his Emancipation Proclamation, making remarks on the several parts as he went on, and showing that he had fully considered the whole subject, in all lights under which it had been presented to him."


"Sure, it is apparent that presidents are looking at polls, but they are also stepping up on issues. President Clinton stepped up on tobacco. He shaped the polls on the tobacco issue."


"Mr. President, I believe your real problem is that you have somehow been unable to realize that you have won, not only won, but been re-elected by a tremendous margin."


"I'm going to be a vice president very much like George Bush was. He proved to be a very effective vice president, perhaps the most effective we've had in a couple of hundred years."
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