Presidents Quotes

When a government is dependent upon bankers for money, they and not the leaders of the government control the situation, since the hand that gives is above the hand that takes.

At times we used questionable means to achieve our noble ends.

Niggah! Niggah! Niggah! That’s all they said to me all day. Hell, there’s one thing they’d better know. If I don’t achieve anything else while I’m President, I intend to make it impossible for people to come here and shout “Niggah! Niggah! Niggah! to me and the American people.

When I found out that there was eight Presidents before George Washington, I wanted to smack somebody.

Arabs will participate on an equal footing throughout all sectors of the country’s public life….In every cabinet where the prime minister is a Jew, the vice-premiership shall be offered to an Arab and vice versa.

You have so often been right that it is perfectly possible that I am wrong…

For the White House, victories beget victories and loses beget losses.

Do it now. Not next week. Not tomorrow. Not later this afternoon. Now.

I am an Irishman second: I am a Catholic first…. If the [Roman Catholic] hierarchy give me any direction with regard to Catholic social teaching or Catholic moral teaching, I accept without qualification in all respects the reaching of the hierarchy and the church to which I belong.

You can call anyyne here or call me. We have no formal chain of command.

In Mafia states government officials enrich themselves and their families and friends while exploiting the money, muscle, political influence, and global connections of criminal syndicates to cement and expand their own power…Top positions in some of the world’s most profitable illicit enterprises are no longer filled only by professional criminals; they now include senior government officials, legislators, spy chiefs, heads of police departments, military officers, and, in some extreme cases, even heads of state and their families.

Many people were grateful that President Johnson had not had hemorrhoid surgery.

I am going to build the kind of nation that President Roosevelt hoped for, President Truman worked for and President Kennedy died for.

All good Presidents are supple.

We could beat back Kennedy on Civil Rights, but Lyndon [Johnson] knows how to beat us.

A woman running for President. There is not a thing in the Constitution to prohibit it. I cannot vote but I can be voted for.

Great men don't 'move to the center' — great men move the center!

Nixon is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood tree and then mount the stump to make a speech for conservation.

As democracy is perfected, the office represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. We move toward a lofty ideal. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.

I’m a lover of the old Republic, and I deeply resent the empire that our Presidents put in its place.

I've been really privileged to work for two presidents - President Obama and President Clinton - who are both people of faith, who value faith, and who respect that others have the same feelings in their own lives.

Any man familiar with public life realizes the foul gossip which ripples just under the surface about almost every public man, and especially about every President

It's certainly true that presidents have confidantes who rise above what you would call just staff.

The chief is the chief. He is the eagle who flies high and cannot be touched by the spit of the toad.