Top 1200 Presidents Day Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

You're going to struggle. You're going to do well. You can't really let the past or the day before - whether you had a good day or bad day - dictate the day you have that certain day.

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

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

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

As a longtime career guy, I like quiet diplomacy behind closed doors. This is not what we're getting with Donald Trump. At the end of the day, it's what America does, how people perceive us, in the long run, our reliability and such, and, thirdly, the personal relationships presidents have with their counterparts. The tweeting and some of the explosive conversations can hurt the third and can have an impact on the second, but, in the end, what we really should focus on is the policies. Some of them have been bad, the rollout of the immigration ban. Others, we have to wait and see.

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

Our best presidents have really combined domestic leadership with heroic achievements in foreign affairs or war.

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

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

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

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

Even if you assume presidents were democratically elected they still have no right to keep secrets from the American people.

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

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.

Presidents have only two moments of personal seclusion. One is prayer; the other fishing - and they cannot pray all the time!

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Presidents are only seen on August 15 and January 26. Who knows what they do for five years other than this?

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

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

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?

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

I believe in term limits for presidents because I think that there is no doubt I'm a better president now than I was when I start.

Remember Henry Adam's jest that the succession of presidents from Washington to Grant disproved the theory of evolution?

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

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

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!

It is incredibly presumptive for somebody who has not yet earned his party's nomination to start speculating about vice presidents.

President-elect John F.Kennedy said to Robert McNamara that there's no school for presidents, or, for that matter, for secretaries of defense.

There are examples of ex-presidents speaking out. Jimmy Carter has not held back on a variety of issues. Harry Truman didn't.

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

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

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

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

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

Part of me knows one more day won't do anything except postpone the heartbreak. But another part of me believes differently. We are born in one day. We die in one day. We can change in one day. And we can fall in love in one day. Anything can happen in just one day.

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

In order to get big things done, sometimes, presidents have to be deft at moving the pea around under the shells.

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

Our great presidents have been stewards, men who broadly identified with the whole of America.

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

How many presidents, do you think, ever said to another guy: 'I can't believe we're doing this in the White House'?

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

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

The presidents of colleges have to have some courage to step forward. You can't limit alcohol in college sports, you have to get rid of it.

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

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