Presidency Quotes

Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.

~ Douglas Adams

Presidents are selected, not elected.

~ Franklin D. Roosevelt

For nearly four years you have had an Administration which instead of twirling its thumbs has rolled up its sleeves. We will keep our sleeves rolled up. We had to struggle with the old enemies of peace--business and financial monopoly, speculation, reckless banking, class antagonism, sectionalism, war profiteering. They had begun to consider the Government of the United States as a mere appendage to their own affairs. We know now that Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob.

~ Franklin D. Roosevelt

But, in the Trump aftermath, I've measured the costsAnd benefits of loving those who don't loveStrangers. After all, I'm often the odd one—The strangest stranger—in any field or room.He was weird will be carved into my tomb.

~ Sherman Alexie

A president who has incited violence inspires citizens towards hate and violence.

~ Dashanne Stokes

Bigotry against any group should be disqualifying for high office.

~ Alan Dershowitz

It’s clearly a budget. It’s got lots of numbers in it.

~ George W. Bush

The most important thing you need to do [in this job] is to have big chunks of time during the day when all you’re doing is thinking.

~ Barack Obama

There should be no bitterness or hate where the sole thought is the welfare of the United States of America. No man can occupy the office of President without realizing that he is President of all the people.

~ Franklin D. Roosevelt

It's not doing what is right that's hard for a President. It's knowing what is right.

~ Lyndon Johnson

To vastly improve your country and truly make it great again, start by choosing a better leader. Do not let the media or the establishment make you pick from the people they choose, but instead choose from those they do not pick.

~ Suzy Kassem

I believe in (the American) people. I believe that people are more good than bad. I believe tragic things happen. I think there's evil in the world. But I think that at the end of the day, if we work hard, and if we're true to those things in us that feel true and feel right, that, the world gets a little better each time. That's what this presidency is trying to be about. And I see that in the young people i work with. This is not just drama-obama. This is what I really believe.

~ Barack Obama

No man will ever bring out of that office the reputation which carries him into it. The honeymoon would be as short in that case as in any other, and its moments of ecstasy would be ransomed by years of torment and hatred.

~ Thomas Jefferson

... When Princes devote themselves rather to pleasure than to arms, they lose their dominions.

~ Niccolò Machiavelli

The worst president is closer by nature to the best then either is to anyone who has not gone through what it requires to become president.

~ George Friedman

Selling the presidency like cereal! How can you talk seriously about issues with half-minute spots?

~ Adlai Ewing Stevenson

I hear of a convention to be held at Baltimore, or elsewhere, for the selection of a candidate for the Presidency, made up chiefly of editors, and men who are politicians by profession; but I think, what is it to any independent, intellegent, and respectable man what decision they may come to? Shall we not have the advantage of his wisdom and honesty, nevertheless? Can we not count upon some independent votes? Are there not many individuals in the country who do not attend conventions? But no: I find that the respectable man, so called, has immediately drifted from his position, and despairs of his country, when his country has more reason to despair of him. He forthwith adopts one of the candidates thus selected as his only AVAILABLE one, thus proving that he is himself AVAILABLE for any purposes of the demagogue. His vote is of no more worth than that of any unprincipled foreigner or hireling native, who may have been bought.

~ Henry David Thoreau

Not every President is a great speaker. Not every President is a great thinker. But in the modern era, every single President is a master of one thing: eye contact.

~ Brad Meltzer

All respect for the office of the presidency aside, I assumed that the obvious and unadulterated decline of freedom and constitutional sovereignty, not to mention the efforts to curb the power of judicial review, spoke for itself.

~ Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Barack Obama's inspirational whoosh to the presidency in 2008 was unusual. Most campaigns are less exhilarating; indeed, they are downright disappointing - until someone wins.

~ Joe Klein

To bolster his right flank and attract women voters, John McCain had cynically opted for a running mate who was, by any stretch of the imagination, unqualified for a position a heartbeat away from the presidency.

~ Jay Parini