Being president is like being a jackass in a hailstorm. There's nothing to do but to stand there and take it.
~ Lyndon B. Johnson
I think there is one higher office than president and I would call that patriot.
~ Gary Hart
Normally, I stay away from politics - unless I'm going to run for president.
~ Grace Jones
I was in elective politics for 24 years. I've made four national races, two for President, two for Vice President. I have found there are other ways to serve, and I'm enjoying them.
~ Al Gore
You may think the president is all-powerful, but he is not. He needs a lot of guidance from the Lord.
~ Barbara Bush
Politics, where fat, bald, disagreeable men, unable to be candidates themselves, teach a president how to act on a public stage.
~ Jimmy Breslin
Frankly, I don't mind not being President. I just mind that someone else is.
~ Edward Kennedy
The president we have today is a typical Washington politician that's prone to hyperbole and decisiveness and false outrage. And I think it's very sad - very sad to watch.
~ Marco Rubio
Ohio claims they are due a president as they haven't had one since Taft. Look at the United States, they have not had one since Lincoln.
~ Will Rogers
In recent years, anyone in the government, certainly anyone in the FBI or the CIA, or recently, in again, Clint's film, In the Line of Fire, the main bad guy is the chief advisor to the president.
~ Charlton Heston
Making recess appointments when the Senate isn't in recess is neither rational nor moderate. It's a raw misuse of executive power by a president whose love of government is his most vulnerable spot with the electorate.
~ John Podhoretz
Obama might think of himself as one, but he is not a dictator. We are not a banana republic yet. This is not an authoritarian form of government. This is a constitutional republic, and the president doesn't allow or disallow. The president can't buy or purchase.
~ Rush Limbaugh
We need a president who realizes that there's no government business in show business.
~ Penn Jillette
As President Franklin Delano Roosevelt learned when he tried to pack the Supreme Court, the three branches of government are coequal for a reason. Neither the executive branch or the legislative branch should use the third branch to a pursue a partisan agenda.
~ Dan Pfeiffer
As far as the men who are running for president are concerned, they aren't even people I would date.
~ Nora Ephron
Get inside information from the president and you will probably lose half your money. If you get it from the chairman of the board, you will lose all of your money.
~ Jim Rogers
Common wisdom dictates that the vice president should provide balance to the ticket by representing a different part of the country, another set of experiences, or a basketful of electoral votes.
~ Madeleine M. Kunin
Enough Americans saw fit to give president Obama a second term. I don't think there will be many people keeping their Romney/Ryan bumper stickers on their cars.
~ Henry Rollins
I would rather have peace in the world than be President.
~ Harry S Truman
Peace in the Middle East has been on the Obama administration's mind from the beginning. Two days after his inauguration, the president traveled to the State Department to announce the appointment of George Mitchell as his Middle East peace negotiator.
~ Elliott Abrams
In one way or another, President Obama's critics will dog him all the way to Oslo for the Nobel Peace Prize ceremony, and even his admirers will continue to have doubts about his accomplishments if not his promise.
~ Tom Brokaw
The idea of being a novelist is really romantic, but it's kind of the same as being president of the United States - it's not gonna happen.
~ Richard Paul Evans
There is but one way for a president to deal with Congress, and that is continuously, incessantly, and without interruption. If it is really going to work, the relationship has got to be almost incestuous.
I kept a very full diary of my relationship with Nixon, for some strange reason, until he became president.
~ Billy Graham
Many years ago, I concluded that a few hair shirts were part of the mental wardrobe of every man. The president differs from other men in that he has a more extensive wardrobe.
~ Herbert Hoover
Can anyone understand how it is to have lived in the White House and then, suddenly, to be living alone as the President's widow?
~ Jackie Kennedy
I have voted against only one of President Obama's nominees: Michael Froman, a Citigroup alumnus who is currently storming the halls of Congress as U.S. Trade Representative pushing trade deals that threaten to undermine financial regulation, workers' rights, and environmental protections.
~ Elizabeth Warren
Human-rights advocates, for example, claim that the mistreatment of Iraqi prisoners is of a piece with President Bush's 2002 decision to deny al Qaeda and Taliban fighters the legal status of prisoners of war under the Geneva Conventions.
~ John Yoo
We do not believe voters gave President Bush a mandate to turn back the clock decades on so many of our legal protections.
~ Ralph G. Neas
It serves notice that President Bush is serious about promoting freedom, because free societies are a lot more peaceable than dictatorships and monarchies.
~ Tony Snow
The nation will be shaped for decades by decisions that are made by President Bush and the Senate about the future of the Supreme Court.
