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Quotes by President
"You know, everybody makes mistakes when they are president."
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"It is just as important that business keep out of government as that government keep out of business."
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"You cannot, in human experience, rush into the light. You have to go through the twilight into the broadening day before the noon comes and the full sun is upon the landscape."
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"I have wondered at times what the Ten Commandments would have looked like if Moses had run them through the US Congress."
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"Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence."
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"Minorities have a right to appeal to the Constitution as a shield against such oppression."
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"Saddam Hussein is a homicidal dictator who is addicted to weapons of mass destruction."
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"Democracy is worth dying for, because it's the most deeply honorable form of government ever devised by man."
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"The passion for office among members of Congress is very great, if not absolutely disreputable, and greatly embarrasses the operations of the Government. They create offices by their own votes and then seek to fill them themselves."
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"We shall never be able to remove suspicion and fear as potential causes of war until communication is permitted to flow, free and open, across international boundaries."
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"I don't see what's wrong with giving Bobby a little experience before he starts to practise law."
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"It is clear our nation is reliant upon big foreign oil. More and more of our imports come from overseas."
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"There are risks and costs to action. But they are far less than the long range risks of comfortable inaction."
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"When you have an efficient government, you have a dictatorship."
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"Every man who takes office in Washington either grows or swells, and when I give a man an office, I watch him carefully to see whether he is growing or swelling."
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"In the final choice a soldier's pack is not so heavy as a prisoner's chains."
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"The constitution vests the power of declaring war in Congress; therefore no offensive expedition of importance can be undertaken until after they shall have deliberated upon the subject and authorized such a measure."
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"I am president now, and tired of being kicked around."
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"Senator Kerry has been in Washington long enough to take both sides on just about every issue."
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"The Declaration of Independence I always considered as a theatrical show. Jefferson ran away with all the stage effect of that... and all the glory of it."
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"I find that he is happiest of whom the world says least, good or bad."
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"Foreign powers do not seem to appreciate the true character of our government."
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"You do not examine legislation in the light of the benefits it will convey if properly administered, but in the light of the wrongs it would do and the harms it would cause if improperly administered."
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"In reaffirming the greatness of our nation, we understand that greatness is never a given. It must be earned. Our journey has never been one of shortcuts or settling for less. It has not been the path for the faint-hearted, for those who prefer leisure over work, or seek only the pleasures of riches and fame. Rather, it has been the risk-takers, the doers, the makers of things -- some celebrated, but more often men and women obscure in their labor -- who have carried us up the long, rugged path towards prosperity and freedom."
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"Going to college offered me the chance to play football for four more years."
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"If the law is upheld only by government officials, then all law is at an end."
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"With impressive proof on all sides of magnificent progress, no one can rightly deny the fundamental correctness of our economic system."
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"No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any."
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"Today we are engaged in a deadly global struggle for those who would intimidate, torture, and murder people for exercising the most basic freedoms. If we are to win this struggle and spread those freedoms, we must keep our own moral compass pointed in a true direction."
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