Top 1200 Great Presidents Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

Everybody brings their personality to any position, and that's true for presidents like anyone else.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt and J.F Kennedy were Presidents in very different times.

I've been privileged to meet presidents and sing at inaugurations and other political events.

There are only two occasions when Americans respect privacy, especially in Presidents. Those are prayer and fishing.

We reject: kings, presidents and voting. We believe in: rough consensus and running code.

I get to deal with presidents and prime ministers and - and employees from tellers on up. And I love it.

The American people want their presidents to articulate big ideas and leave the details to the eggheads.

We have seen presidents from both parties express their frustrations with the press. That's absolutely normal.

Whenever I came up against presidents of other companies, I was always smarter, because I was from the streets.

Kings and queens are expected to have offspring to carry on the name. There are no such demands on American presidents, but there is an expectation. There is a hope.

Do people still shoot at presidents? I thought there were more stimulating targets.' (20)

I deal with guys in their 20s and early 30s who are presidents of companies, who are movie directors.

When I found out that there was eight Presidents before George Washington, I wanted to smack somebody.

So I start my mission- leave my residence Thinkin how could I get some dead presidents

Maxwell's Equations have had a greater impact on human history than any ten presidents.

What people can't possibly imagine is what it's like to have two presidents who have a relationship as father and son.

All modern U.S. presidents are perforce politicians, prisoners of their past pronouncements, their party, their constituency, and their colleagues.

Doctrines provide an architecture for both Republican and Democrat presidents to carry out policies.

I was in the drama club, and I was one of seven co-presidents of the student body. Students elected me - I don't know why!

Occasionally, you see presidents come in and provide a clear change in direction of leadership.

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

[Ronald]Reagan and[George W.] Bush were far more radical than other presidents.

It was funny, when I got to Australia to The Presidents Cup, I ate about 6,000 calories.

When the going gets tough in Washington, presidents appoint 'blue ribbon' commissions.

If you're seeking progress, all presidents are the opposition. You're just fighting different kinds of battles -

I'm a little uncomfortable with the idea of judges overruling presidents on national security matters.

American presidents always avoid shaking hands with brutal dictators, except when it's advantageous to do so.

Calvin Coolidge was one of the best presidents. Why? Because he did absolutely nothing.

Only kings, presidents, editors, and people with tapeworms have the right to use the editorial 'we.'

We can't in any way criticize or at least indict or impeach administration [of Democratic presidents] for doing what they did.

I'm of the minority opinion that presidents should be given more power for less time.

Presidents are elected not by direct popular vote but by 538 members of the Electoral College.

Taxpayers should not be on the hook for subsidizing former presidents' lives to the tune of millions of dollars.

Few American presidents have been unhappier or lonelier in office than Woodrow Wilson.

Marijuana was a new phenomenon when we started. Now it's for everyone - doctors, lawyers, presidents.

On ships they call them barnacles; in business they attach themselves to desks and are called vice presidents.

In going too far, they [presidents] have taken away the individual rights of American citizens.

Presidents by six years have been there long enough for the media and the country to see their flaws.

When most presidents get in, they move to the center because they realize that this is a centrist country - even Reagan.

American university presidents are a nervous breed; I have never thought well of them as a class.

We elect our Presidents, be they Republican or Democrat, then start daring 'em to make good.

Most presidents come to Washington bright as freshly minted dimes and leave much diminished.

At best, most college presidents are running something that is somewhere between a faltering corporation and a hotel.

Presidents make their hard decisions and then abide forever with their mistakes and regrets.

I have been chastised by a president, I have antagonized and angered presidents, and I have taken on my own leadership.

Presidents today spend more time speaking than they do reading or thinking.

Presidents don't have the benefit of hindsight. You have to make difficult decisions based on the information that's before you at that moment.

Surveillance changes history. We know this through examples of corrupt presidents like Nixon.

Why are stamps adorned with kings and presidents? That we may lick their hinder parts and thump their heads.

Mission presidents hold keys of responsibility for the welfare, safety, and success of their missionaries.

Refuse to accept the narrative of history laid down by presidents, prime ministers, generals and journalists.

I’m never wrong? Who besides Republican presidents and evil masterminds can say that with a straight face?

It's certainly true that presidents have confidantes who rise above what you would call just staff.

It is a key fact about American policy in Vietnam that the withdrawel of American troops was built into it from the start. None of the presidents who waged war in Vietnam contemplated an open-ended campaign; all promised the public that American troops would be able to leave in the not-too-remote future. The promise of withdrawel precluded a policy of occupation of the traditional colonial sort, in which a great power simply imposes its will on a small one indefinitely.

Ginnifer Goodwin said it very well - we're not doing the Hall Of Presidents at Disneyland. This is my interpretation of [J.F] Kennedy.

While I do not think it was so intended I have always been of the opinion that this turned out to be much the best for me. I had no national experience. What I have ever been able to do has been the result of first learning how to do it. I am not gifted with intuition. I need not only hard work but experience to be ready to solve problems. The Presidents who have gone to Washington without first having held some national office have been at great disadvantage.

We have at least learned that the offspring of presidents don't necessarily make good politicians themselves.

I've met a handful of presidents, from Jimmy Carter to Bill Clinton to George Bush to Barack Obama.

Presidents have to be very organized to govern successfully, and solo artists rarely succeed.

Decision making in a democracy depends above all on knowledge and not just the intel available to presidents and policymakers.