Top 1200 President Ronald Reagan Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

Under President (George W.) Bush, prosecution of gun crimes was 30 percent higher than it is under President Obama.

The relationship between the prophet and the President, the priest and the President, is a sacred one.

I want to tell the vice president and everybody else that when I'm president there will be a controlling legal authority.

A new report just came out that says President Obama has mentioned Jesus Christ in more speeches than President Bush did. Can you believe that? Still, neither has used the phrase 'Oh God, oh God,' more than President Clinton.

I think he [President Clinton] was probably the brightest President of the 20th century.

It's going to be very difficult. I don't see the president-elect [Donald Trump] as a legitimate president.

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

I'm the only American alive or dead who presided unhappily over the removal of a vice president and a president.

We, Norton I, do hereby decree that the offices of President, Vice President, and Speaker of the House of Representatives are, from and after this date, abolished.

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

This president goes into office with more expectations than any president I can ever remember in my lifetime.-2008

Every new president inherits headaches, but President Obama has inherited an entire emergency room.

I prefer that people remember me as a president who made reforms rather than a president who did nothing.

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.

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

I don't think you can run for president or be president unless you're a busy person.

[On President Kennedy's assassination Nov. 22, 1963:] Something dreadful is going to happen to the president today.

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.

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

President Obama has asked me to chair his new President's Council on Jobs and Competitiveness.

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

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.

I think if you're president, color goes away completely: you're president and it doesn't matter if you're white, green or purple.

I had great admiration for the election of President Obama. I believe that the U.S. at that moment showed tremendous capacity to show that it is a great nation, and it surprised the world. It may be very difficult to be able to elect a black president in the U.S. - as it was very difficult to elect a woman president in Brazil.

A president should take action to defend the United States against eminent threat. You have to. The president has to do that.

All special assistants to the president are typically political appointees of the first year of the new president.

Instead of a president who boycotts Prime Minister Netanyahu, imagine a president who stands unapologetically with the nation of Israel.

If President Trump were to say, 'I'm am now the first female president,' who would celebrate that?

President Obama has created the image of an America under President Bush that routinely violated international law.

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

I think President Clinton was probably the brightest President of the 20th century.

I think a lot of presidents learn to be president by being president.

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

There is a fact-based belief system available to you if you want to believe in facts. But this is the weirdest time. I mean, after Nixon I thought nothing could be weirder. Then there was Reagan, and after Reagan I thought nothing could be weirder. Then there was Bush and Bush's son, and it all just seemed like nothing could be a badder joke than George W. Bush. And now we're here. It seems to just yo-yo around, but hopefully we'll get to another level.

I think President Barack Obama has been a good president.

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

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 think the generosity of President Trump's spirit, recognizing that in the patriot's heart, there's no room for prejudice is part of who this president is.

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

Do you want a you're hired president in Hillary Clinton or a you're fired president in Donald Trump? I don't think that's such a hard choice.

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

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.

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

I don't know how many people run for vice president and president and lose both.

I am ready and prepared to work with the President, but I will not be a rubber stamp for any president.

You serve the country, and you help the President. If the President wants you to leave, you know, you are two corridors down.

To go into Ukraine and to take over, to invade Crimea, is a huge step. And [Russian President Vladimir Putin] would only have done it with a president who has shown from the very beginning that [President Obama] is living in a fantasy world...They imagine the world as a new interconnected world where climate change is the biggest threat and they are shocked that the Russians actually are interested in territory.

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

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.

The most important aspect of the relationship between the president and the secretary of state is that they both understand who is president.

But I also directed Jack Barrymore and Ronald Colman and James Stewart, to name a few.

A president who is concerned about an ongoing criminal investigation is almost inevitably going to do a worse job as president.

The reason we have Christian president and Muslim vice president or Muslim president and Christian vice president is to have balance.

Reagan was no neocon.

Your hair is much too long, Ronald, for a moment I thought you were Ginevra.

Running for president is hard. But it's good preparation. Because being president is a lot harder.

Me as president would not be like anybody else as president. Everyone does the job differently.

I am happy that I can go to Tottenham but want to thank Southampton and coach Ronald Koeman.

President Obama is the least transparent president in the history of this country.

Unlike President Obama, President Nixon was a capitalist who did not believe in 'remaking' the very character of America.