All Quotes

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.
‐‐ Conan O'Brien

President Clinton was able to achieve budget surpluses despite a divided government.
‐‐ Jim Cooper

President Clinton will, I think, lift everyone's spirit. He was a good president, an economic, balanced budget president. And President Obama, I believe, has been a very good president, too, and we will get reelected. You watch.
‐‐ Bill Richardson

President-elect Bush spoke in a forceful and candid manner that it is his passion that all children should have access to a first class education.
‐‐ George Miller

President Eyring is a wise, learned, and spiritual man.
‐‐ Joseph B. Wirthlin

President Ford used humor a great deal.
‐‐ Robert Orben

President Ford was a devoted, decent man of impeccable integrity who put service to his country before his own self interest. He helped heal our nation during a time of crisis, provided steady leadership and restored people's faith in the presidency and in government.
‐‐ Mark Udall

President Ford was taken for a ride by his predecessor, whom he unpardonably pardoned; Jimmy Carter was also taken for a ride, but by his successor, Ronald Reagan, over the return of the Iran hostages.
‐‐ Nigel Hamilton

President Franklin D. Roosevelt had to find a way to help the American people. In 1933, he created a relief program known as the New Deal. Two years later, he expanded the New Deal by adding the Works Progress Administration, which was renamed the Work Projects Administration in 1939.
‐‐ Kathi Appelt

President George H. W. Bush soon launched Operation Desert Shield, sending an enormous contingent of troops to Saudi Arabia. But once there, what exactly were they to do? Contain Iraq? Attack and liberate Kuwait? Drive on to Baghdad and depose Saddam? There was no clear consensus among foreign policy advisers or analysts.
‐‐ Greg Grandin

President George Herbert Walker Bush ran as a strong conservative, ran to continue the third term of Ronald Reagan, continue the Ronald Reagan revolution. Then he raised taxes and in '92 ran as an establishment moderate - same candidate, two very different campaigns.
‐‐ Ted Cruz

President George W. Bush, in his now-rare public appearances and interviews, still refuses to acknowledge he did anything to help Iran. But it doesn't really matter what he thinks.
‐‐ Richard Engel

President George W. Bush is the first American president to call openly for two-states, Israel and Palestine, living side by side in peace and security.
‐‐ Lee H. Hamilton

President George W. Bush's aggressive war on Islamic terrorism produced a 100 percent perfect track record of keeping the United States safe from another attack. The result has been increased security for the American people, who, in turn, have become complacent about the true nature of the threat.
‐‐ Monica Crowley

President George W. Bush won reelection in 2004 largely because he was seen as comfortable in his own skin, while rival John Kerry was viewed as a flip-flopping opportunist.
‐‐ Ron Fournier

President Gerald Ford was no intellectual, but he had served with distinction in combat as a naval gunnery officer and then as Congressman for a quarter century.
‐‐ Nigel Hamilton

President Gerald R. Ford was never one for second-guessing, but for many years after leaving office in 1977, he carried in his wallet a scrap of a 1915 Supreme Court ruling. 'A pardon,' the excerpt said, 'carries an imputation of guilt,' and acceptance of a pardon is 'a confession of it.'
‐‐ Scott Shane

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.
‐‐ Andrew Young

President Johnson and I have a lot in common. We were both born in small towns and we're both fortunate in the fact that we think we married above ourselves.
‐‐ Richard M. Nixon

President Johnson offered the middle of the road.
‐‐ Lew Wasserman

President Johnson put destroyers in harm's way in the Tonkin Gulf not only once, but several times, with the, with a lot of his people hoping that it would lead to a confrontation and claiming that it had. And could have resulted in the lost of many lives in the course of it.
‐‐ Daniel Ellsberg

President Kennedy has named two Negroes to District Judgeships and appointed Thurgood Marshall to the United States Court of Appeals. When I came to the Department of Justice, there were only ten Negroes employed as lawyers; not a single Negro served as a United States Attorney - or ever had in the history of the country. That has been changed.
‐‐ Robert Kennedy

President Kennedy knew every agent by name. President Johnson knew many of us, but not as many as President Kennedy, probably.
‐‐ Clint Hill

President Kennedy's election was such an enlargement. It expanded religious freedom to include the highest office in the land. President Kennedy's administration was such an enlargement. It advanced the day when the bars of intolerance against all minority groups will be lifted, not only for the presidency, but for all aspects of our national life.
‐‐ Robert Kennedy

President Kennedy said that those who make peaceful revolution impossible make violent revolution inevitable. I would say that the converse is true.
‐‐ Jacqueline Novogratz

President Kennedy understood the importance of equal pay for equal work and signed historic legislation that gave women around the country hope that one day their wages would be on par with that of their male counterparts.
‐‐ Rosa DeLauro

President Kennedy was a voracious reader and was forever coming up with fascinating bits of information.
‐‐ Pierre Salinger

President Kennedy was the greatest man I ever met, and the best friend I ever had.
‐‐ David Powers

President Kennedy was willing to go to war. He was not a coward. The man had been in war and so had Ken O'Donnell. He was ready to protect this nation, but he was not ready for a military solution just because it was being rammed down his throat.
‐‐ Kevin Costner

President Lincoln chose to fight a bloody and unpopular war because he believed the enemy had to be defeated. He was right.
‐‐ Pete Hegseth

President Lyndon Johnson was very, very unpredictable. We never knew for sure what he is going to do next, and he preferred to have it that way; if he could do something as a complete surprise, that was his preference.
‐‐ Clint Hill

President Mandela was not a hands-on president at any time.
‐‐ F. W. de Klerk

President Nixon has lost his effectiveness as the leader of this country, primarily because he has lost the confidence of the people.
‐‐ Edward Brooke

President Nixon was a pragmatic strategist. He would engage, not contain, China, but he would also quietly set pieces into place for a fallback position should China not play according to the rules as a good global citizen.
‐‐ Lee Kuan Yew

President Obama and Democrats won a mandate to move us forward with jobs, healthcare reform, equality, and nation building here at home.
‐‐ Christine Pelosi

President Obama and Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi represent what mainstream America is rejecting about Washington, D.C. And that is this out of touch with the people.
‐‐ Sharron Angle

President Obama and his radical feminist enforcers have had it in for Catholic medical providers from the get-go. It's about time all people of faith fought back against this unprecedented encroachment on religious liberty. First, they came for the Catholics. Who's next?
‐‐ Michelle Malkin

President Obama and I disagree on policy with Israel. He seems to say... 'We want peace, but we want to act like Switzerland. We're going to be a neutral party to everyone.' I think that's negotiating from weakness.
‐‐ James Lankford

President Obama and I recognize the importance of strong economic engagement for the continued growth of both the Philippines and the United States.
‐‐ Benigno Aquino III

President Obama and members of his administration constantly express rage and anger over events totally within their control. It's an odd and unsettling fact of American life that so many Americans seem to think that such expressions of frustration should substitute for actual competence.
‐‐ Ben Shapiro

President Obama and our all-of-the-above energy strategy is the real deal. We are proud of the fact that we are importing less oil than at any time in modern history, and it has been because of the president's vision and courage.
‐‐ Ken Salazar

President Obama and Secretary Duncan have made stronger teacher evaluation a key part of their education reform efforts. Under their signature plan, called 'Race to the Top,' states can win federal support for schools by improving teacher evaluations.
‐‐ Juan Williams

President Obama became our first African American president, and for me, it is the stuff of which dreams are made.
‐‐ Kenny Leon

President Obama believes in a country where we invest in education, in roads and bridges, in science, and in the future so we can create new opportunities so the next kid can make it big and the kid afer that and the kid after that, that's what President Obama believes.
‐‐ Elizabeth Warren

President Obama believes in a level playing field.
‐‐ Elizabeth Warren

President Obama believes that income inequality is one of the most pressing matters facing the nation. If we are going to be a country that provides ladders of opportunity and believes in a thriving middle class, then we have to raise the minimum wage.
‐‐ Thomas Perez

President Obama called for a 'we' nation in his Inauguration Address. Art convenes. It is not just inspirational. It is aspirational. It pricks the walls of our compartmentalized minds, opens our hearts and makes us brave. And that's what we need most in our country today.
‐‐ Anna Deavere Smith

President Obama came to office proclaiming that he aims to solve problems, not hand them on to our children. Most presidents say that sort of thing.
‐‐ Christopher Buckley

President Obama came to visit me in the hospital. He said, 'I wish you were still in the Senate; I need your help.' I'm not certain I can help on everything. Maybe some things.
‐‐ Bob Dole