Top 1200 President Nixon Quotes & Sayings - Page 8

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

In many ways when Jerry Ford pardoned Nixon, in a certain way, he did speak for the country.

Richard Nixon was a criminally insane Monster - Bill Clinton is a black-hearted Swine of a friend.

You need a president whom you can trust, someone who will not steal your money, a president who is sincere, brave and just.

Even before Watergate and his resignation, Nixon had inspired conflicting and passionate emotions.

I didn't say 'former president,' I said 'president,' and I have the constitutional rights according to the constitution, including immunity from prosecution.

It's one thing to have a president with whose politics you disagree; it's another to have a president who doesn't even seem to care about your welfare.

You think the world was shocked when Nixon resigned? Wait till I whup George Foreman's behind.

I happen to be a Republican President... ah... the Vice President.

No one really speaks for the president other than the president.

A president has - and I had it even before I became president - a very special relationship with the people, a connection based on feelings.

I think probably, you know, from my perspective, the folks who say a sitting president cannot be indicted have the better of the argument that the president can't be indicted - put, you know, through a criminal trial while he is president - and that the proper way to do it is to impeach him first, remove him, and then seek criminal prosecution.

I think President Obama is going to be a one-term president.

One day the President and Mrs. Coolidge were visiting a government farm. Soon after their arrival they were taken off on separate tours. When Mrs. Coolidge passed the chicken pens she paused to ask the man in charge if the rooster copulates more than once each day. "Dozens of times, was the reply." "Please tell that to the President," Mrs. Coolidge requested. When the President passed the pens and was told about the roosters, he asked "Same hen every time?" "Oh no, Mr. President, a different one each time." The President nodded slowly, then said, "Tell that to Mrs. Coolidge."

Here in Brazil, the president and the vice president are elected together.

Of course a lot of the journalists hated Nixon, but they were always blown away by how smart he was.

I always say, 'Obama is my president - the president of the world.'

President Mandela was not a hands-on president at any time.

If I'm vice president of the United States and Donald Trump is president, we're going to put the safety and security of the American people first.

I sometimes lie awake at night trying to think of something funny that Richard Nixon said.

Why should we allow a Democrat President in the White House to use executive orders and not do the same with a Republican President?

I would say that President Roosevelt probably was more intimately in touch with the press corps at the White House than President Truman was.

Pinochet and Barack Obama both have the same primary goal, and that's to be president and stay president as long as allowed.

President Clinton was often known as the first black president. I wouldn't be upset if I could earn the right to be the second.

As soon as a regular guy like Bill Clinton becomes the president, he wears a mantle of greatness. He's the president.

President Obama is going to take two weeks to unwind, as opposed to President Bush, who never wound.

I confirm that and Donald Trump now confirms that President Barack Obama is a legitimately elected president of the United States].

Nixon's attempts to order subversion of various departments was bound to come out in some form.

The death of JFK to the resignation of Richard Nixon marked a great turning point in American life.

To be sure, President Clinton reached an accord called "The Agreement" in 1994 that purports to address some of President Reagan's concerns.

Only Nixon could have gone to China. Anyone else would have been criticised from the Right.

We began to see the renovation of our offices as a subtle part of the Nixon war against the press.

I don't want to be the president of the world. I'm the President of the United States.

The American political system is based on the president taking the initiative and Congress responding. With President Trump, it's been the opposite.

In a president, character is everything. A president doesn't have to be brilliant... He doesn't have to be clever; you can hire clever... You can hire pragmatic, and you can buy and bring in policy wonks. But you cant buy courage and decency, you cant rent a strong moral sense. A president must bring those things with him. He needs to have, in that much maligned word, but a good one nonetheless, a vision of the future he wishes to create.. But a vision is worth little if a president doesn't have the character - the courage and heart - to see it through.

Earlier today, the White House released President Bush's tax return. Not surprisingly, under dependents, the president listed Iraq

You can't have thousands of people being shot in a city, in a country that I happen to be president of. Maybe it's OK if somebody else is president.

Correct. President Wallis was the president before the Chinese assault and continued leading the United States throughout the war

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

We've flown the president since Eisenhower, and we're going to continue to fly the president for generations to come. This is something we're very proud of.

If President Obama or any president ever attempts gun confiscation in America, there should be and will be a second civil war.

Second, the President's popularity has not translated into increased support for the Republican party or for the policies and approaches on domestic policy championed by the President.

Dr Urbino did not agree: in his opinion a Liberal president was exactly the same as a Conservative president, but not as well dressed.

I love President Bush. I think it's great we have a president who always looks like he's looking directly into the sun.

President Biden is the duly-elected president and we will do everything we can to work with him to help the citizens of Mississippi.

Everybody's had their differences with President Trump. He's a polarizing president, but I think a majority of the people like what he's doing.

I do not believe any president can bind a successor president to give up his fundamental role as protector of the country.

I think I should be a president. President of the United States.

When the President picks someone who is his ideological soul mate, that's his right, in my reading of "advise and consent." I do think, though, the more you get up the ladder, when someone is no longer accountable to the President, and more importantly, will stay in office after the President, the standard gets tougher and tougher.

Do you realize the responsibility I carry? I'm the only person standing between Richard Nixon and the White House.

The decision he made with Usama bin Laden was a tactical decision. It wasn't a strategic decision. The strategic decision was made by President Bush to go after him. What President Obama has done on his watch, the issues that have come up while he's been president, he's gotten it wrong strategically every single time.

President Bush intends to abrogate U.S. sovereignty to the North American Union, a new economic and political entity which the President is quietly forming....Why doesn't President Bush just tell the truth? His secret agenda is to dissolve the United States of America into the North American Union.

The man with the best job in the country is the vice-president. All he has to do is get up every morning and say, 'How is the president?'

Which founders have these presidents cited - and why? What did, say, President [Ronald] Reagan's view of George Washington, or President [Bill] Clinton's view of Thomas Jefferson, tell us about their view of America and where they intended to lead the country?In many cases, it told us a lot about the president.

The president does not have power under the Constitution to unilaterally authorize a military attack in a situation that does not involve stopping an actual or imminent threat to the nation. As commander in chief, the president does have a duty to protect and defend the United States. In instances of self-defense, the president would be within his constitutional authority to act before advising Congress or seeking its consent.

The president of Mexico, or the ex-president, or whatever, whoever, who cares, he said, we will not even consider paying for the wall.

Kennedy is remembered as a success mainly because of what came after: Johnson and Vietnam. Nixon and Watergate.

I can't imagine that I would be asked that by the president-elect [Donald Trump], or then-president [Barack Obama]. But it's - I'm very clear. I voted for the change that put the Army Field Manual in place as a member of Congress. I understand that law very, very quickly and am also deeply aware that any changes to that will come through Congress and the president.

Nixon was so crooked that he needed servants to help him screw his pants on every morning.

[The American President] has to take all sorts of abuse from liars and demagogues.… The people can never understand why the President does not use his supposedly great power to make ’em behave. Well, all the President is, is a glorified public relations man who spends his time flattering, kissing and kicking people to get them to do what they are supposed to do anyway.