Quotes about President

“When the President does it, that means that it is not illegal.”

“A President is best judged by the enemies he makes when he has really hit his stride.”

“In America, the President reigns for four years, and journalism governs for ever and ever.”

“To be President of the United States, sir, is to act as advocate for a blind, venomous, and ungrateful client; still, one must make the best of the case, for the purposes of Providence.”

“From now on, I think it is safe to predict, neither the Democratic nor the Republican Party will ever nominate for President a candidate without good looks, stage presence, theatrical delivery, and a sense of timing.”

“I'm the only president you've got.”

“I'd rather be right than President.”

“The President is the people's lobbyist.”

“We're an ideal political family, as accessible as Disneyland.”

“Power is poison. It's effect on Presidents had always been tragic.”

“Jerry Ford is so dumb he can't fart and chew gum at the same time.”

“If presidents don't do it to their wives, they do it to the country.”

“In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.”

“Frankly, I don't mind not being president. I just mind that someone else is.”

“But even the President of the United States sometimes must have to stand naked.”

“If you want to see your plays performed the way you wrote them, become President.”

“No man will ever bring out of the Presidency the reputation which carries him into it.”

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

“Being a President is like riding a tiger. A man has to keep on riding or he is swallowed.”

“When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President. Now I'm beginning to believe it.”

“Meeting Franklin Roosevelt was like opening your first bottle of champagne; knowing him was like drinking it.”

“You don't need to know who's playing on the White House tennis court to be a good president. A president has many roles.”

“But there are advantages to being elected President. The day after I was elected, I had my high school grades classified Top Secret.”

“Anybody who wants the presidency so much that he'll spend two years organizing and campaigning for it is not to be trusted with the office.”

“The president is the representative of the whole nation and he's the only lobbyist that all the one hundred and sixty million people in the country have.”

“The power confided in me will be used to hold, occupy and possess the property and places belonging to the government, and to collect the duties and imposts.”

“Some of the Presidents were great and some of them weren't. I can say that, because I wasn't one of the great Presidents, but I had a good time trying to be one, I can tell you that.”

“Under a Presidential government, a nation has, except at the electing moment, no influence; it has not the ballot-box before it; its virtue is gone, and it must wait till its instant of despotism again returns.”

“In our brief national history we have shot four of our presidents, worried five of them to death, impeached one and hounded another out of office. And when all else fails, we hold an election and assassinate their character.”

“A president, however, must stand somewhat apart, as all great presidents have known instinctively. Then the language which has the power to survive its own utterance is the most likely to move those to whom it is immediately spoken.”