Presidential Criticism Quotes

“You are a gutless son of-a bitch and you ought to resign the Presidency of the United States.” That’s about as mean as they get. Let’s use it.

Thomas Jefferson once said, 'We should never judge a president by his age, only by his works.' And ever since he told me that, I stopped worrying.

I think that presidents deserve to be questioned. Maybe irreverently, most of the time. Bring 'em down a size. You see a president, ask a question. You have one chance in the barrel. Don't blow it.

Bad presidents don't deserve holidays. They deserve scorn.

When things don't go well they like to blame the Presidents, and that is one of the things that President's are paid for.

I normally try to ignore presidential tweets.

I think President Obama is weak, bored with the office, and an incompetent leader.

I'm sick and tired of only being asked about everything that Donald Trump says or does.

I'm not saying that President Obama should be exempt from criticism, nor do I believe it is some act of racial treason for a black person to hold our president accountable for his actions.

No self respecting white man can ally himself with the President [Theodore Roosevelt] after what has occurred.

Yes, Barack Obama had his clashes with the press. I witnessed those first-hand covering the second term of his administration. But we did not have Barack Obama on almost a weekly basis referring to the press as the enemy of the people and accusing reporters of treason and calling legitimate stories fake news.

Barack Obama will go down alongside George W. Bush in that realm as middling presidents because both made too many mistakes to be categorized as an effective, good president.

If the Trump White House and their allies in the media want to have this conversation about decency, I welcome them to the table to talk about it. But there's a bunch of stuff that they need to get caught up on before we get to a comedian at the White House dinner.

I’ve never felt that his private life was the way to judge him. We should judge a president by the way he performs as president.

Mr. President, I love you, but you're wrong. (To Richard Nixon, on the Vietnam War)

Donald Trump has been president for nearly three years. He's been on Twitter for more than 10. Yet the only thing more surprising than Trump's increasingly awful, hideously unpresidential, deeply divisive tweets is that we still manage to be surprised by them.

To announce that there must be no criticism of the president... is morally treasonable to the American public.

I wish this president would learn to be an American

George W. Bush is the worst President in U. S. history.

Was any criticism of Obama permitted? It was not. We can't criticize the president of the United States. Why? Because he's African-American. And any criticism is said to be racist. And so we have more racists in America today than we've ever had by definition of criticizing the president.

The President has become increasingly the depository of all national ills, especially if things go wrong.

When it comes to the president, we have to respect him, we have to protect him, and we have to correct him. And in my career, since he'd been on the national stage at least, I've had - I've always respected the president.

All I'm saying is [John McCain] cannot look a soldier in the eye and say "Questioning the president is less supportive to you than extending your tour three months." You should be coming home to your family.

President Obama and members of his administration constantly express rage and anger over events totally within their control. It's an odd and unsettling fact of American life that so many Americans seem to think that such expressions of frustration should substitute for actual competence.

[Donald Trump] knows he's going to get hit, though. He's the president.