Presidency Quotes

“I like to say that the presidency is a series of choices.”

“The two most important things that a president can do for us is to choose our judges and to have a strong foreign policy.”

“You cannot have a president of the United States who uses the office to tear down the institutions of our government.”

“Character is the most important quality for a president.”

“I believe a president can't be indicted, can't be prosecuted while in office.”

“Since I came here I have learned that Chester A. Arthur is a very different man from Chester A. Arthur of New York.”

“I don't think that we should be in the business of second-guessing the president of the United States on a tactical decision.”

“My father is a very shy man, and he's a very lonely man. It's because he has achieved so much that he's lonely.”

“A president has to be a unifying figure, not a divisive one.”

“I am a war president.”

“There doesn't seem to be anything else for an ex-president to do but to go into the country and raise big pumpkins.”

“A president can be disabled temporarily. A president can be disabled permanently.”

“Anybody who wants the presidency so much that he'll spend two years organizing and campaigning for it is not to be trusted with the office.”

“My hope is that the Supreme Court will hold that the President is subject to the rule of law just like any other citizen.”

“Ronald Reagan was a great president. He was a great president because he was a great man.”

“Presidents are also always storytellers, purveyors of useful national myth.”

“A President is a high-level official who is elected to carry out a function. He is not a king, not a tsar, not a dictator.”

“My duty is to execute the laws and not my individual opinions.”

“What we have here is a president who is exercising his authority as president of the United States.”

“A president can be impeached for non-criminal acts.”