Presidential famous quotes
04-18-2025
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I know that the Lord is always on the side of the right. But it is my constant anxiety and prayer that I and this nation should be on the Lord's side.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
All that harms labor is treason to America.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
I am busily engaged in the study of the Bible. I believe it is God's word because it finds me where I am.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
You're a trivial part in a trivia game. Now what's your aim? A presidential campaign? Like Ross Perot? He lost it though... But he got a billion in tha bank fo' sho'!
-- Aceyalone -
The age of Lincoln and Jefferson memorials is over. It will be presidential libraries from now on.
-- Ada Louise Huxtable -
During my 2004 presidential campaign, I was fond of saying that it was high time for the Christian right to meet the right Christians.
-- Al Sharpton -
Who can guarantee that he [Alexander Milinkevich, a Belarussian opposition presidential candidate] is the most promising candidate capable of competing with the incumbent president?
-- Alexander Lukashenko -
This wasn’t just an attack against the Boston Marathon... It was an attack against the American public and our democratic use of the streets. We have used our public roadways for annual parades, protest marches, presidential inaugurations, marathons, and all manner of other events. The roads belong to us, and their use represents an important part of our free and democratic tradition.
-- Amby Burfoot -
I welcome the signing by the presidential candidates Dr. Abdullah Abdullah and Dr. Ashraf Ghani of an agreement on the formation of a government of national unity in Afghanistan,
-- Anders Fogh Rasmussen -
You are a den of vipers and thieves. I intend to rout you out, and by the eternal God, I will rout you out.
-- Andrew Jackson -
Honest conviction is my courage; the Constitution is my guide.
-- Andrew Johnson -
Legislation can neither be wise nor just which seeks the welfare of a single interest at the expense and to the injury of many and varied interests.
-- Andrew Johnson -
If the rabble were lopped off at one end and the aristocrat at the other, all would be well with the country.
-- Andrew Johnson -
I feel incompetent to perform duties...which have been so unexpectedly thrown upon me.
-- Andrew Johnson -
There is no more dangerous thing for a democracy than a foreign policy based on presidential preventive war.
-- Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. -
We did not come to fear the future. We came here to shape it.
-- Barack Obama -
Of all presidential perks, the pardon power has a special significance. It is just the kind of authority that would attract the special attention of someone obsessed with himself and his own ability to influence events.
-- Barbara Olson -
The fellow has absolutely no principles."Money and gall" is all he has.
-- Barry Goldwater -
We Americans have no commission from God to police the world.
-- Benjamin Harrison -
You must believe that you can help bring about a better world. A good society is produced only by good individuals, just as truly as a majority in a presidential election is produced by the votes of single electors.
-- Bertrand Russell -
When I hit the skins they all say, 'Damn Kane... You knock out the Bush like a presidential campaign!'
-- Big Daddy Kane -
How should we Democrats select the next presidential nominee? Smoke filled rooms? Brokered convention? National primary? Personally, I prefer jump shots from the top of the key.
-- Bill Bradley -
Did you see the 2000 Republican Presidential Convention? The last time the Republicans had that many Black people on a stage, they were selling them!
-- Bill Maher -
I am now a member of the private sector. I'm happy. I've got a little foundation. You never say never, but I may have had my last race and that was the Presidential race. I think that you only get one shot.
-- Bill Richardson -
My first presidential primary vote was for Bobby Kennedy.
-- Bob Gunton -
Not a season passes without new disclosures showing Nixon's numerous attempts at criminal use of his presidential powers and in fact the scorn he held for the rule of law.
-- Bob Woodward -
I was recruited by my family the day after the presidential election. My daughters were visually upset at the results and asked, ‘what are we going to do?’ I told my wife Christie that they were right, I had to do something. It was my time to step up and serve.
-- Bobby Schilling -
Lately even the harshest critics of President Bush have been forced to admit maybe he's right about freedom's march around the globe. What if we are watching an example of presidential leadership that will be taught in American schools for generations to come? It's an idea gaining more currency.
-- Brian Williams -
Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery.
-- Calvin Coolidge -
If American democracy is to remain the greatest hope of humanity, it must continue abundantly in the faith of the Bible
-- Calvin Coolidge -
Perhaps one of the most important accomplishments of my administration has been minding my own business.
-- Calvin Coolidge -
Public debt [is] a burden on all the people.
-- Calvin Coolidge -
The more I study it [the Constitution], the more I have come to admire it, realizing that no other document devised by the hand of man ever brought so much progress and happiness to humanity.
-- Calvin Coolidge -
Coolidge expressed his "sympathy with the deep and intense longing which finds such fine expression in the Jewish National Homeland in Palestine."
-- Calvin Coolidge -
Even at the end of a presidential election campaign, we have no way to know what Mitt Romney really believes.
-- Carl Bernstein -
Not a day goes by that I don't click on RealClearPolitics at least once, the presidential poll charts, graphs and moving averages are great. If RCP didn't already exist, somebody would have to invent it.
-- Charlie Cook -
If it were not for the reporters, I would tell you the truth.
-- Chester A. Arthur -
No higher proof exists of the strength of popular government than, though the chosen of the people be struck down, his constitutional successor is peacefully installed without shock or strain.
-- Chester A. Arthur -
Wouldn`t it be great for some of the Republican candidates to stand up to the money guys and say, if you want a presidential nominee who will do what the Bushes did, go from war to war, look elsewhere.
-- Chris Matthews -
Mitt Romney has won the 2012 presidential nomination by promising Republicans that he would end a so-called 'culture of dependency' on welfare - welfare defined as 'free stuff' and food stamps for poor folks, not tax breaks for Big Oil or tax shelters for Bain executives.
-- Christine Pelosi -
No Republican presidential candidate is a viable option for pro-choice voters of any political philosophy - Democrat, Republican or otherwise.
-- Christine Pelosi -
Jeb Bush announced today on the Internet that he may run for president. The next presidential election could be Bush vs. Clinton. It will be like 1992 all over again except I won't be in rehab.
-- Craig Ferguson -
I read the book [My Life by Bill Clinton] completely. And I think it compares very favorably with Ulysses S. Grant's gold standard of presidential autobiographies.
-- Dan Rather -
As someone who's been covering presidential campaigns since the 1950s, I have no delusions about political reporting. Candidates bargaining access to get the kind of news coverage they want is nothing new.
-- Dan Rather -
New fathers, political prisoners, traumatised presidential aides, resolute schoolboys, MEPs addressing unfriendly chambers - we all find that Shakespeare has magically anticipated our precise circumstances. How he was possible, I still don't understand; but there isn't a day I'm not grateful that he speaks to me in my own language.
-- Daniel Hannan -
A presidential speech is always the work of many hands.
-- David Frum -
I'm not sure Lincoln would fare well if he were a presidential candidate today.
-- David Herbert Donald -
There is one catagory of advertising which is totally uncontrolled and flagrantly dishonest: the television commercials for candidates in Presidential elections.
-- David Ogilvy -
A little tough talk in the midst of a campaign or as part of a presidential debate cannot obscure a record of 30 years of being on the wrong side of defense issues.
-- Dick Cheney -
The typical presidential staff resents the vice-president even more than they do the first lady.
-- Dick Morris -
Our nation must engage with the rest of the world. But to be successful, we must listen. Our interaction with the world must be a conversation, not a monologue... these exchanges are a strategic pillar of our nation's public diplomacy.
-- Dina Powell -
Don't automatically obey Presidential directives if you disagree or if you suspect he hasn't considered key aspects of the issue.
-- Donald Rumsfeld -
In the execution of Presidential decisions work to be true to his views, in fact and tone.
-- Donald Rumsfeld -
America is best described by one word, freedom.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower -
Our forms of government - though both cast in the democratic pattern - are greatly different. Indeed, sometimes it appears that many of our misunderstandings spring from an imperfect knowledge on the part of both of us of the dissimilarities in our forms of government.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower -
You, of Canada, are building a magnificent record of achievement. My country rejoices in it.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower -
By mutual respect, understanding and with good will we can find acceptable solutions to any problems which exist or may arise between us.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower -
I assure you that it is our desire and intention to keep the doors of consultation always and fully open. There must never be a final word between friends.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower -
It is still a fact that our common frontier grows stronger every year, defended only by friendship.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower -
Your country, my country - each is a better and stronger and more influential nation because each can rely upon every resource of the other in days of crisis. Beyond this, each can work and grow and prosper with the other through years of quiet peace.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower -
Mob rule can not be allowed to override the decisions of our courts.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower -
Despite the present, temporary interests that Israel has in common with France and Britain, you ought not to forget that the strength of Israel and her future are bound up with the United States.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower -
As lawmakers, we must assure the people of America that our nation will not experience the nightmare of the 2000 presidential election.
-- Eddie Bernice Johnson -
At the unveiling at the White House of the presidential portrait, President Bush pointed out that Hillary Clinton was the first sitting Senator in history to have her portrait hanging in the White House.
-- Eleanor Clift -
One of the many, many salutary aspects of Barack Obama's impending presidential nomination is the sea change his victory marks in the battle for the mind-set of the American foreign policy establishment.
-- Eric Alterman -
This generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt -
The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much it is whether we provide enough for those who have little.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt -
We have nothing in our history or position to invite aggression; we have everything to beckon us to the cultivation of relations of peace and amity with all nations.
-- Franklin P. Adams -
While men inhabiting different parts of this vast continent cannot be expected to hold the same opinions, they can untie in a common objective and sustain common principles.
-- Franklin Pierce -
There is nothing left to do but get drunk.
-- Franklin Pierce -
Frequently the more trifling the subject, the more animated and protracted the discussion.
-- Franklin Pierce -
Let's not overlook, though, what we do know about the campaign finance scandal, and the fact the Chinese were involved in our presidential campaign and our congressional campaigns.
-- Fred Thompson -
Natural Texas politicians make terrible, terrible presidential candidates. Phil Gramm, I remember the 'Phil Gramm for President' campaign. I thought that was the worst thing in the history of the world, but Rick Perry was possibly worse.
-- Gail Collins -
When Uganda got debt relief in 1999, the first item President Museveni bought was a presidential jacket for himself.
-- George Ayittey -
...for two centuries supporters of the Electoral College have built their arguments on a series of faulty premises. The Electoral College is a gross violation of the cherished value of political equality. At the same time, it does not protect the interests of small states or racial minorities, nor does it serve as a bastion of federalism. Instead the Electoral College distorts the presidential campaign so that candidates ignore most small states - and many large ones - and pay little attention to minorities.
-- George C. Edwards III -
International exchanges are not a great tide to sweep away all differences, but they will slowly wear away at the obstacles to peace as surely as water wears away a hard stone.
-- George H. W. Bush -
Think about every problem, every challenge, we face. The solution to each starts with education.
-- George H. W. Bush -
I wish I had known more firsthand about the concerns and problems of American businesspeople while I was a U.S. senator and later a presidential nominee. That knowledge would have made me a better legislator and a more worthy aspirant to the White House.
-- George McGovern -
Recognizing and confronting our history is important. Transcending our history is essential. We are not limited by what we have done, or what we have left undone. We are limited only by what we are willing to do.
-- George W. Bush -
By the time a man gets to be presidential material, he's been bought ten times over.
-- Gore Vidal -
Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.
-- Grover Cleveland -
Communism is a hateful thing, and a menace to peace and organized government.
-- Grover Cleveland -
Every citizen owes to the country a vigilant watch and close scrutiny of its public servants and a fair and reasonable estimate of their fidelity.
-- Grover Cleveland -
My greatest trials come through those professing to be near and attached friends, who expect things.
-- Grover Cleveland -
I know that human prejudice - especially that growing out of race and religion - is cruelly inveterate and lasting.
-- Grover Cleveland -
Americans have not had a presidential choice since 1932. Roosevelt was our man; every president since Roosevelt has been our man.
-- Harold Wallace Rosenthal -
It is time that all Americans realized that the place of labor is side by side with the businessman and with the farmer, and not one-degree lower.
-- Harry S. Truman -
I am proud of my part in the creation of this new state. Our Government was the first to recognize the State of Israel.
-- Harry S. Truman -
I had faith in Israel before it was established, I have faith in it now.
-- Harry S. Truman -
This government has been informed that a Jewish state has been proclaimed in Palestine, and recognition has been requested by the provisional government thereof. The United States recognizes the provisional government as the de facto authority of the new State of Israel.
-- Harry S. Truman -
Canada is a broad land - broad in mind, broad in spirit, and broad in physical expanse.
-- Harry S. Truman -
Canada and the United States have reached the point where we no longer think of each other as 'foreign' countries. We think of each other as friends, as peaceful and cooperative neighbors on a spacious and fruitful continent.
-- Harry S. Truman
