Top 1200 President Truman Quotes & Sayings - Page 5

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

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

In an interview with Rolling Stone, Senator John Kerry, who is running for president, said that when he voted for the war in Iraq, he didn't expect President Bush to 'f--- it up as badly as he did.' Here's some breaking news, tomorrow former Vice President Al Gore expected to endorse Howard Dean as the Democratic nominee for president of the United States - and you thought John Kerry was using four letter words before! Actually, to John Kerry, Dean is a four letter word.

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.

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

There was a president imposed by Syria. Our battle... is to have a Lebanese president that we elect.

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

The problem is there are people in this country - maybe 10%, I don't know what the number, maybe 20% on a bad day - who want this President to have an asterisk next to his name in the history books, that he really wasn't President....They can't stand the idea that he is President, and a piece of it is racism. Not that somebody in one racial group doesn't like somebody in another racial group. So what? It is the sense that the white race must rule. That's what racism is. And they can't stand the idea that a man who is not white is President.

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

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

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

If Obama's vision of the public sector is socialism, then so too were the visions of Theodore Roosevelt, Franklin Roosevelt, Harry Truman, Dwight Eisenhower, John Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, and Richard Nixon.

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

Harry Truman, who was a Bible-believing Christian Zionist, defied the secretary of state he so admired, George C. Marshall, and won a place in Israel's history by recognizing the new state 11 minutes after it declared its independence in 1948.

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

The progress of evolution from President Washington to President Grant was alone evidence to upset Darwin.

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

I think President Barack Obama has been a good president.

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

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

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

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

I'm very proud of what Harry Truman turned out to be in office and the record he made. Certainly I think he'll go down in history as one of the greats, because of his conscience, his determination to stick with what he knew was right.

It's an undeniable fact, that President Jonathan has done well for Nigeria in such a very short time, and I think he is the answer to the prayer of many Nigerians. I must not be President, but I have vowed to support anyone who shares the same vision I have for Nigeria. And take it from me, President Jonathan has surpassed my vision for Nigeria

People made a big deal out of the fact this is the first time a sitting president has done a late-night show. We tried to have other presidents on, but President Bush went to bed every night at 9:00. And President Clinton always seemed to have other late-night plans.

We are trying to pick the next president, not review the birth of the current president.

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

There's nothing in the Constitution that says the President stops being President in his last year.

The Democrats have no evidence that President Trump colluded with Russia to win the 2016 president election.

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.

When I was appointed deputy president, I accepted it, and it is the president's prerogative to appoint or remove anyone to the Executive.

The role of the vice president is to break ties in the Senate and inquire daily into the health of the president.

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

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

If the president of the United States, if he's smart, if he needs help, he’d come. I could do a favor for the president

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

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

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.

Well, you know what, I'm 60 years old, and I've been interested in politics since I was on my daddy's knee. During the 1948 election, we were praying for Truman. I know a lot about politics.

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

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.

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

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

I don't think it's good for America to have a former president undermine a current president.

For decades, people right, left, and center complained that the presidency is too powerful. Trump's administration is shrinking the presidency. The president has less and less influence over Congress. This president is not fulfilling the usual role of the president in being the moral leader and the spokesman for the country. He's just not being looked to for leadership.

One of the predictions that I was the first to make is now materializing, and that prediction was that Obama isn't going away. That Obama is going to hang around Washington and do everything he can to undermine the next president, particularly if and when the next president tries to unravel any of the gigantic web of deceit and debauchery that Obama has implemented as president.

I've had to take roles that on purpose were not Will-like so that someone like 'The Hollywood Reporter' would write, 'McCormack shows great range; no Will Truman here.'

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

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 want to become the president of all the people of France - the president of the patriots in the face of the threat from the nationalists.

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

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

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

Whenever a new president comes in, people that are used to the previous president wonder if he has the same capacity.

'Pumped Up Kicks' is written from the perspective like Truman Capote wrote 'In Cold Blood' or Dostoevsky wrote 'Crime & Punishment.' It's psychologically breaking down someone's state of mind and diving in and walking in their shoes.

President Obama was the first president not to abide by the limits in the general election.

The single most important thing we want to achieve is for President Obama to be a one-term president.

I suspect it's because Truman Democrats have been replaced by Gruber Democrats - self-styled elitists who feed lavishly at the public trough and think government should serve them, not the hoi polloi they disdain and deceive.

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

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.