Top 1200 President Truman Quotes & Sayings - Page 6

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

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?'

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

What I have in common with the character in 'Truman' is this incredible need to please people. I feel like I want to take care of everyone and I also feel this terrible guilt if I am unable to. And I have felt this way ever since all this success started.

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.

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."

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

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.

I always go back to Harry Truman: Should we drop an atomic bomb to save 100,000 lives? That's a hell of a decision to make. Did he make that decision by himself? No, he had advisers.

1992 was the worst year of my life, to watch my dad lose. It was a painful experience. Yet when I became president, it was so much easier to be president.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

If you could have imagined that someone is happy that Obama is president, it has to be Jimmy Carter because he is no longer the worst president in our history.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

No one in the modern history of this country, no president, has done more to move toward a balanced budget than has President Bill Clinton.

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

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

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

[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.

I've known him for years, and I am supporting Chris Christie for president. Whether he will, in the final analysis, be the president, I don't know.

If anyone is crazy enough to want to kill a president of the United States, he can do it. All he must be prepared to do is give his life for the president's.

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

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.

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

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

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

[ New York ] is a place that worships incompetence particularly if it's combined with energy and paranoid self-confidence. Only in a city like New York could Truman Capote have made it, or John Simon.

When I mentioned about Adlai Stevenson, if he was vice president there would never have been an assassination of our beloved President Kennedy

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.

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

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

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

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

Whether it's a sitting president when I was an impeachment manager, or a Republican president who has taken liberties with adherence to the law, to me the standard is the same.

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

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 have somehow, continued to miss Oktoberfest so that's probably something that is better for me to do as a former president rather than as president, I'll have more fun.

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

The president in Finland has to understand that there are many different thoughts and opinions and that they must be taken into account so that he could be the president of the whole nation.