Top 156 Truman Quotes & Sayings

Despite its flaws, the American electoral system has produced Lincoln, the two Roosevelts, and Harry Truman.

I never graduated from Iowa, but I was only there for two terms - Truman's and Eisenhower's.

My life is not unlike Truman's. I can't go anywhere.

Harry Truman wrote scathing letters, but he almost never sent them.

Almost everything Truman did in foreign affairs I approve of.

Truman left in the middle of an unpopular war, a war of choice. Truman didn't have to go into South Korea. And he was reviled and ridiculed for the stalemate that resulted. Now, he's seen as one of the great presidents of the 20th century.

The first election I remember was Dewey Truman in '48. I was, I guess, seven years old.

Truman Capote is really an interesting cat.

It was such a leap in my career when 'Truman Show' came along. It's always been a long process for me insofar as recognition goes, but that's OK because you appreciate it when it comes.

President Truman made his name by looking into contracting. And that's how integrity within the military procurement started in the United States.

I love Truman Capote, Tennessee Williams, Flannery O'Connor. I read a lot of American writers.

I am the heterosexual Truman Capote.

If Truman hadn't published 'Answered Prayers' in parts, he'd have had the drive to finish it. The peacocks took it away from him.

It fell to President Harry Truman to contain Soviet expansionism. He built America's first peacetime alliances, starting in Western Europe, then in Asia.

When you first saw 'The Truman Show,' did anyone else walk around for the next week not picking your nose just in case?

Everyone is against Harry (Truman) except the people.

Some of our finest leaders were not intellectuals at all, and I admire them enormously because they weren't. Harry Truman wasn't.

Harry Truman was courageous enough to command that racial segregation be ended in the military. I was serving in a submarine in the U.S. Navy at the time he issued the order.

Harry Truman, with what he did in dropping and having the guts to drop the bomb in 1944, saved - saved millions of American lives.

I loved Harry Truman with all my heart and soul.

Trump has the opportunity to be the president who, like Harry Truman, redirected U.S. foreign policy for a generation.

Harry S. Truman had his moods. His birthplace is the only tourist attraction in America where you don't see Japanese with cameras.

I do like 'The Truman Show.'

Eisenhower was a pretty peace-oriented president. Truman was a pretty hawkish. I would argue, if we had more time, I would argue Truman had a lot to do with getting the Cold War going.

Harry Truman's decision to fire Douglas MacArthur at the height of the Korean War in April 1951 shocked the American political system and astonished the world. Much of the world didn't realize the president had the power to fire a five-star general; much of America didn't realize Truman had the nerve.

I was in Independence, Missouri when Johnson signed the Medicare bill, with Truman standing there. Truman had first proposed Medicare, but couldn't get it through.

My dream dinner party guests would be Ethel Kennedy, Truman Capote and Hunter S. Thompson.

My favourite president, and the one I admired most, was Harry Truman.

We support President Truman's civil rights program.

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

He [Harry S. Truman] loved politicians - even Republicans.

I've reached a point in my life where my Truman Show boat has hit the painting.

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

I went to a little liberal-arts college in Missouri called Truman State University.

For The Truman Show, I worked for a few weeks, do my gig, then I was done.

Anticommunism in its modern form was invented by liberals like Harry Truman, the architect of the national security state. The proportion of the voting population that was not anticommunist in 1961 was miniscule.

Harry Truman proves that old adage that any man can become President of the United States.

I always said little Truman had a voice so high it could only be detected by bats.

Anyone who ever gave you confidence, you owe them a lot". ~Truman Capote, Breakfast at Tiffany's, 1958, spoken by the character Holly Golightly

Are there any writers on the literary scene whom I consider truly great? Yes: Truman Capote.

I would like to say that no man ever was given finer cooperation than that given me by President Truman.

[President Truman] was free of the greatest vice in a leader, his ego never came between him and his job.

If there had been any formidable body of cannibals in the country, Harry Truman would have promised to provide them with free missionaries fattened at the taxpayer's expense.

During his presidency, Truman and the Republicans were locked in a series of furious assaults on each other that outraged him and made Truman an enduring foe of a party and its representatives, which he saw as on the wrong side of almost every domestic and foreign policy issue he considered important.

Truman is now seen as a near-great president because he put in place the containment doctrine boosted by the Truman Doctrine and the Marshall Plan and NATO, which historians now see as having been at the center of American success in the cold war.

Nobody wants to hear that you met Harry Truman... I met Harry Truman... But you know what I mean? Nobody's interested. They want to know you met Rihanna. And that kills me.

My favorite monologue in the book is Kate Harrington's story of her relationship with Truman.

Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him.

What happened to the America we grew up in, the America of Truman, Ike, JFK and Reagan?

Hysterical in The Mask; funny yet moving in The Truman Show.

[Truman Capote] was not only just selling his writing, but he was selling himself as a person.

The biggest blunder in the history of this country was when President Truman pulled General MacArthur out of China.

I liked Truman very much. He was precise and businesslike. After a while, it was his turn.

My father's political heroes were Franklin Roosevelt and Harry Truman.

Will Truman will be on my epitaph, but as an actor, I have to challenge myself.

Truman has become the patron saint of failed presidents because he left office with a 27 percent approval rating, and people were saying, 'To err is Truman,' yet look at what he did: the Marshall Plan, the creation of NATO, the Truman Doctrine.

Truman Capote was a magical, beautiful writer.

Truman Capote has made lying an art. A minor art.

I'm a Harry Truman, JFK, Scoop Jackson and Bill Clinton Democrat.

All the other members of the U.N. were admitted, at the outset or subsequently, but Israel was created by the U.N. as a Jewish state, on the motion of Stalin's ambassador, seconded by President Truman's.