Presidency Quotes

If you are as happy my dear sir on entering this house as I am in leaving it and returning home y...

Barack Obama's inspirational whoosh to the presidency in 2008 was unusual. Most campaigns are less e...

The four most miserable years of my life . . .

Had I been chosen president again I am certain I could not have lived another year.

Don't let it be forgot That once there was a spot -For one brief shining moment That was known as C...

A president's hardest task is not to do what's right but to know what's right.

... When Princes devote themselves rather to pleasure than to arms, they lose their dominions.

Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.

All respect for the office of the presidency aside, I assumed that the obvious and unadulterated dec...

But, in the Trump aftermath, I've measured the costsAnd benefits of loving those who don't loveStran...

No man will ever bring out of that office the reputation which carries him into it. The honeymoon wo...

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

I'll be damned if I am not getting tired of this. It seems to be the profession of a President simpl...

If forced to choose between the penitentiary and the White House for four years I would say the pen...

I desire to so conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end ... I have lost every ...

Seriously I do not think I am fit for the presidency.

I feel like the man who was tarred and feathered and ridden out of town on a rail. To the man who as...

Bigotry against any group should be disqualifying for high office.

I believe in (the American) people. I believe that people are more good than bad. I believe tragic t...

The most important thing you need to do [in this job] is to have big chunks of time during the day w...

I think the American public wants a solemn ass as a president and I think I'll go along with them.

The presidency does not yield to definition. Like the glory of a morning sunrise it can be experien...

Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the...

Th' prisidincy is th' highest office in th' gift iv th people. Th' vice-prisidincy is th' next highe...

Presidents are selected, not elected.

There should be no bitterness or hate where the sole thought is the welfare of the United States of ...

I have no expectation of making a hit every time I come to bat.

For nearly four years you have had an Administration which instead of twirling its thumbs has rolled...

The worst president is closer by nature to the best then either is to anyone who has not gone throug...

It’s clearly a budget. It’s got lots of numbers in it.

My movements to the chair of government will be accompanied by feelings not unlike those of a culpri...

I beg leave to assure the Congress that no pecuniary consideration could have tempted me to accept t...

The office of president requires the constitution of an athlete the patience of a mother the endur...

The buck stops here.

Within the first few months I discovered that being a president is like riding a tiger. A man has to...

The president is the representative of the whole nation and he's the only lobbyist that all the one ...

Well I wouldn't say that I was in the 'great' class but I had a great time while I was trying to b...

Harricum! Harricum! Give 'em hell Harricum!

I would rather be right than President.

I hear of a convention to be held at Baltimore, or elsewhere, for the selection of a candidate for t...