Presidency Quotes

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

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

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

“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.”

“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.”

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

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

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

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

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

“The first thing a president has to do is to make sure that he has a country to be president of.”

“I am a war president.”

“I did not become president to preside over the death of the Philippine Republic.”

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

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

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

“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.”

“The modern presidency is a back-breaking job. It's so much more than what Franklin Roosevelt had to do.”

“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.”