Presidency Quotes Page 2

A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities and an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties.

I think the major role of the First Lady is to take care of the President so that he can best serve the people. And not to fail her family, her husband, and children.

I would love to see Mr. (Henry) Ford in there, really. I don't know who started the idea that a President must be a Politician instead of a Business man. A Politician can't run any other kind of business. So there is no reason why he can run the U.S. That's the biggest single business in the World.

In the days of Caesar, kings had fools and jesters. Now network presidents have anchormen.

I don`t think the Donald Trump`s qualified to be president of the United States, and every time he speaks, that opinion is confirmed.

The true character of a society is revealed in how it treats its children.

The only title in our democracy superior to that of President is the title of citizen.

Censure is a limp noodle across the wrist of the president.

I think the way we vote on the articles will express the way we feel stronger than any censure vote.

If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged.

As we go from Abraham Lincoln to Theodore Roosevelt to Mitt Romney, I now understand why the Republicans don't believe in evolution.

I do not like green eggs and ham. I do not like them, Sam-I-Am.

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself-and possibly teh bogey man.

Transparency and the rule of law will be the touchstones of this presidency.

We have a president who stole the presidency through family ties, arrogance and intimidation, employing Republican operatives to exercise the tactics of voter fraud by disenfranchising thousands of blacks, elderly Jews and other minorities.

Famous people are deceptive. Deep down, they're just regular people. Like Larry King. We've been friends for forty years. He's one of the few guys I know who's really famous. One minute he's talking to the president on his cell phone, and then the next minute he's saying to me, Do you think we ought to give the waiter another dollar?

There is nothing more unequal than the equal treatment of unequal people.

Some people say the president is incapable of enforcing the law.

Let them say that once more and I will set the tanks on them.

The President of Iran has called for the destruction of Israel and the West and has even denied the holocaust took place. Iran and its terrorist arm Hezbollah are responsible for the current conflicts between Israel and Lebanon.

Four years of Jimmy Carter gave us two titanic Reagan landslides, peace and prosperity for eight blessed years - and even a third term for his feckless vice president, George H.W. Bush.

The United States brags about its political system, but the President says one thing during the election, something else when he takes office, something else at midterm and something else when he leaves.

I couldn't be happier that President Bush has stood up for having served in the National Guard, because I can finally put an end to all those who questioned my motives for enlisting in the Army Reserve at the height of the Vietnam War.

The selection of a Republican candidate for the presidency of this globalized and expansive empire is - and I mean this seriously - the greatest competition of idiocy and ignorance that has ever been.

I am not a newcomer, you know, so I want to be judged for what I did when I was prime minister last time in Italy and president of the European Commission for more than five years.

Elect me as your congressman today, I promise you an Ilocano president in 20 years.

If the Europeans want to intervene, that's their business.

But if I were president, I would remove every United States soldier from the Balkan peninsula.

I don't know anyone at the highest levels who approved Abu Ghraib.

If President Barack Obama for a moment thought that somebody at a high level had approved it, he would go after them.

The State of the Union may look rosy from the White House balcony or the suites of George Bush's wealthiest donors. But hardworking Americans will see through this president's efforts to wrap his radical agenda with a compassionate ribbon.

The president said that this is not removing a mole.

You know, removing a mole, that's an outpatient sort of an operation. This was removing a cancer, removing a cancer takes more time.

Mr. Lincoln was not only a great President, but a great man - too great to be small in anything. In his company I was never in any way reminded of my humble origin, or of my unpopular color.

The president requested me to restore order in the national team.

I have been designated to be part of the official delegation to Egypt to help boost the morale of our players.

The president said that this is not removing a mole.

You know, removing a mole, that's an outpatient sort of an operation. This was removing a cancer, removing a cancer takes more time.

What did the president know, and when did he know it?

Nothing would please the Kremlin more than to have the people of this country choose a second rate president.

And what does reward virtue? You think the communist commissar rewards virtue? You think a Hitler rewards virtue? You think, excuse me, if you'll pardon me, American presidents reward virtue? Do they choose their appointees on the basis of the virtue of the people appointed or on the basis of their political clout?

Hope, it is the only thing stronger than fear.

A little hope is effective, a lot of hope is dangerous.