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President Quotes


"I think I'd be a better president because I was in combat."


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


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


"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."


"A master of improvised speech and improvised policies."


"It's not impossible for a woman - a Black woman - to become President."


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


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


"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."


"I feel very proud, even though they didn't elect me, to be President of the Argentines."


"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."



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


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


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


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


"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."


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


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


"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 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."


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


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


"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."


"Ten of those Republican incumbents, all of whom voted for the impeachment of President Clinton, are from states that Bill Clinton carried."


"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."


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


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


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


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


"Look for what's missing. Many advisors can tell a President how to improve what's proposed or what's gone amiss. Few are able to see what isn't there."


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


"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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