Petro Poroshenko Quotes

Never put the investor in the ultimate position of power.

Our purpose, as we face these challenges, remains clear - fair and orderly markets that allow for efficient capital formation, while protecting the interests of investors.

I don't feel any pressure at all to go along with anybody. I feel pressure to do the right thing for U.S. markets and U.S. investors.

Five years ago, when I was elected, I had the feeling that the president doesn't have much to do. I've realized, though, that this is not a rubber-stamp position.

Say no to politicians who sacrifice the interests of individual investors to corporate interests.

When the party holds the White House, all the political decisions are made in the White House. And being a party chair, you're just an artifact.

Politics is about realities, not logic.

There are institutional obligations I have to carry out that are important for a president of the United States to carry out, but may not always align with what I think would move the ball down the field on the issues that I care most deeply about.

I have to say that the judges and our judiciary system makes better decisions than the politicians.

My biggest prediction for the future is that people are going to start looking after individual investors.

I don't have to make a point. I'm George Bush. I'm the president. I built that arena, so I don't have to make a point.

I am a person who looks long-term, and I recognize the path we need to take. There will be moments when people are unhappy and disgruntled with some decision-making. Nonetheless, what matters most is to reach the destination. And my job as President is to see clearly where I want to go and be steadfast in my resolve to realize that vision

A statesman makes the occasion, but the occasion makes the politician.

Someone doesn't think immediately, "I want to be a lobbyist."

[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.

One of the little-celebrated powers of Presidents (and other high government officials) is to listen to their critics with just enough sympathy to ensure their silence.

I want to thank you for coming to the White House to give me an opportunity to urge you to work with these five senators and three congressmen, to work hard to get this trade promotion authority moving. The power that be, well most of the power that be, sits right here.

Oh, if only I could be President and Congress, too, just for ten minutes.

QUORUM, n. A sufficient number of members of a deliberative body to have their own way and their own way of having it. In the U.S. Senate a quorum consists of the chairman of the Committee on Finance and a messenger from the White House.

I'm not impressed with presidents. I have met a few, but I'm not impressed with them.

Behavioral economics can explain some things, but it's hard to explain a lot of the underlying processes that generate these decisions, much less some of these unconscious things that we don't have a handle on at all.

We must first note that economic factors are taken into account in a world in which ignorance, prejudice, and mental confusion, encouraged rather than dispelled by the political organization, exert a strong influence on policy making.

The presidency does not yield to definition. Like the glory of a morning sunrise, it can be experienced.

Putin is no different than any other powerful man, like a Senator, or a President.

Advisers advise, and ministers decide.