Rod Lurie Quotes

When he entered the Oval Office - by fate, not by design - Citizen Ford knew that he was not perfect, just as he knew he was not perfect when he left. But what president ever was?

But presidents matter. That's one of the biggest lessons I learned being in the White House.

What is wrong with George Bush? What is his problem?

There's no question in my mind that I think I would have been a better president than Barack Obama has been.

If Obama was fundamentally different from prior presidents, Trump seems to violate every tenet of what Americans have long sought as our national image.

Now, today is the day we honor, of course, the Presidents, ranging from George Washington, who couldn't tell a lie, to George Bush, who couldn't tell the truth, to Bill Clinton, who couldn't tell the difference.

Every president of the United States federalizes his values.

A President has a character, and the whole administration takes its character from the President's.

As everyone knows, I have never been a fan of George Bush's presidency.

This is the worst President ever. He George W. Bush is the worst President in all of American history.

Presidents need to be critically studied and analyzed.

Well, Warren Harding, I have got you the presidency. What are you going to do with it?

How can a president not be an actor?

I do have to say that I think that President Obama is the greatest President in the history of all of our Presidents, and that he can do no wrong in my book. So how's that for prejudice on the Democratic side?

Every year since 1990, the Gallup poll has asked Americans to assess all the presidents since John F. Kennedy. And every year, Kennedy comes out on top.

If you do a serious presidential bio, you want to supply the reader with maximum material because otherwise you're offending the reader. A president for many people is a serious thing and they want to know everything.

Whose leadership, whose judgment, whose values do you want in the White House when that crisis lands like a thud on the Oval Office desk?

In daring to re-tell the stories of the last twelve American presidents, both public and private, I knew I would incur some outrage with 'American Caesars.'

I don't think there is one president that's come down the line that hasn't done something good somewhere.

The presidency awed me, but presidents do not. Perhaps I have always expected too much of them, but I believe that when they reach the highest office in the land, they should live up to the greatest honor that can come to a person in American political life. Some have stood the test better than others.

Presidents seem to fall into two positive categories: they're one of us, or they're heroes. Both McCain and Obama probably see themselves as potential heroes - presidents who will be looked up to, not presidents everyday people will remark are 'just like me.'

I've worked for four presidents and watched two others up close, and I know that there's no such thing as a routine day in the Oval Office.

I think George W. Bush has a warm, engaging personality. But, you know, the presidency is more than just a popularity contest.

White House cultures inevitably reflect the president's character. Jimmy Carter is a thoroughly honest, good person. So was his White House.

Whether you are a Democrat or Republican, whether you are a liberal or a conservative, we know that neither this President nor prior Presidents of both parties did everything right or we would not have had a 9/11.