President Eisenhower Quotes:

I think it is important that we go and bring both of the parties together. The more we go to the left, the more we go to the right, I believe of what President Eisenhower said, "Politics is like the road. The left and the right represents the gutter, and the middle is drivable."

- Arnold Schwarzenegger

source: Source: www.nbcnews.com

topic: President Eisenhower

The day before my inauguration President Eisenhower told me, You'll find that no easy problems ever come to the President of the United States. If they are easy to solve, somebody else has solved them. I found that hard to believe, but now I know it is true.

- John F. Kennedy

topic: Believe, President, United States, President Eisenhower

President Eisenhower has given up golf for painting. It takes fewer strokes.

- Bob Hope

topic: Golf, President, Painting, President Eisenhower

President Eisenhower saw it coming, and it is here. Patriotism no longer exists among many of these corporations. Some companies have more economic clout than entire countries. They can make or break a politician.

- Byron Dorgan

topic: Country, Political, President, Clout, President Eisenhower

President Eisenhower was a fine general and a good, decent man, but if he had fought World War II the way he fought for civil rights, we would all be speaking German now.

- Roy Wilkins

topic: War, Men, Rights, Decent Man, President Eisenhower

President Roosevelt and President Truman and President Eisenhower had the same experience, they all made the effort to get along with the Russians. But every time, finally it failed. And the reason it failed was because the Communists are determined to destroy us, and regardless of what hand of friendship we may hold out or what arguments we may put up, the only thing that will make that decisive difference is the strength of the United States.

- John F. Kennedy

source: Speech by Senator John F. Kennedy, Democratic Rally, George Washington High School Stadium, Alexandria, VA, www.presidency.ucsb.edu. August 24, 1960.

topic: Hands, Differences, Effort, Truman, President Eisenhower

In 1953, after the armistice ending the Korean War, South Korea lay in ruins. President Eisenhower was eager to put an end to hostilities that had left his predecessor deeply unpopular, and the war ended in an uneasy stalemate.

- Noah Feldman

topic: War, Korea, President, Uneasy, Korean War