Presidency Quotes

No man will ever carry out of the Presidency the reputation which carried him into it.
Thomas Jefferson

Him, Reputation, Carry

I made a mistake by being ejected from the presidency. Next time, I will choose a Cabinet which will allow me to be life President.
Nelson Mandela

Life, Time, Made

Let me even say before I even get inaugurated, during the transition we are going to be having meetings all across the country with community organizations so that you have input into the agenda for the next presidency of the United States of America.
Barack Obama

Country, Before, America

I will begin my presidency with a jobs tour. President Obama began with an apology tour. America, he said, had dictated to other nations. No Mr. President, America has freed other nations from dictators.
Mitt Romney

America, Said, President

When the burdens of the presidency seem unusually heavy, I always remind myself it could be worse. I could be a mayor.
Lyndon B. Johnson

Seem, Worse, Heavy

I thought it completely absurd to mention my name in the same breath as the presidency.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

Thought, Same, Name

Millions of young Americans have graduated from college during the Obama presidency, ready to use their gifts and get moving in life. Half of them can't find the work they studied for, or any work at all. So here's the question: Without a change in leadership, why would the next four years be any different from the last four years?
Paul Ryan

Life, Change, Leadership

When you get to be President, there are all those things, the honors, the twenty-one gun salutes, all those things. You have to remember it isn't for you. It's for the Presidency.
Harry S. Truman

Remember, Gun, President

I just didn't want to get out there anymore; I didn't want to get back into what I call 'the swamp.' And the other reason why is I don't think it's good for the presidency for a former president to be opining about his successor. President Obama's got plenty of critics - and I'm just not gonna be one.
George W. Bush

Good, Why, Reason

If the Soviet empire still existed, I'd be terrified. The fact is, we can afford a fairly ignorant presidency now.
Newt Gingrich

Fact, Ignorant, Afford

The presidency has made every man who occupied it, no matter how small, bigger than he was; and no matter how big, not big enough for its demands.
Lyndon B. Johnson

Made, Small, Enough

So, for example, a country was into recession right after I was sworn in, a dot-com bust had taken place. Then the attacks of September the 11th, and then of course the great financial meltdown in the -the fundamental question facing any presidency is how do you deal with the hand you're dealt?
George W. Bush

Great, Country, After

The presidency has many problems, but boredom is the least of them.
Richard M. Nixon

Problems, Boredom

Scrubbing floors and emptying bedpans has as much dignity as the Presidency.
Richard M. Nixon

Dignity, Floors, Scrubbing

Watergate had become the center of the media's universe, and during the remaining year of my presidency the media tried to force everything else to revolve around it.
Richard M. Nixon

Everything, Become, Around

I have never been a quitter. To leave office before my term is completed is opposed to every instinct in my body. But as president I must put the interests of America first Therefore, I shall resign the presidency effective at noon tomorrow.
Richard M. Nixon

Tomorrow, Before, America

President Obama is the kind of politician who puts promises on the record, and then calls that the record. But we are four years into this presidency.The issue is not the economy as Barack Obama inherited it, not the economy as he envisions it, but this economy as we are living it.
Paul Ryan

Living, President, Economy

I once told Nixon that the Presidency is like being a jackass caught in a hail storm. You've got to just stand there and take it.
Lyndon B. Johnson

Storm, Once, Stand

Within the U.S., the Obama presidency will be mainly measured by the success or failure of his economic policies. And here, I fear, the monstrous stimulus package with which this administration stumbled out of the gate will prove to be Obama's Waterloo.
Camille Paglia

Success, Fear, Failure

Got good news and bad news for you, Mr. President. The good news is that Chief Justice John Roberts just saved your legacy and, perhaps, your presidency by writing for the Supreme Court majority to rule health care reform constitutional.
Ron Fournier

Good, Health, Care

My hope is that that person will come forward that can win the presidency that we can all get behind.
Rick Perry

Hope, Forward, Person

The presidency is not an entry-level electoral job.
John Podhoretz

Obama's presidency hasn't been dedicated to achieving economic growth in the short term, or about creating jobs.
John Podhoretz

Short, Growth, Economic

That distinctive presidential conduct is now gone forever, banished to the snows of yesteryear by Barack Obama. From the beginning of his presidency to the present, he has spoken specifically and in unprecedented fashion of Republicans as his rivals, his stumbling blocks, the primary cause of his troubles.
John Podhoretz

Fashion, Beginning, Present

In my lifetime, Mitt Romney is the most qualified leader I've ever seen run for the presidency of the United States.
Jack Welch

Leader, Seen, Run

We have a president who stole the presidency through family ties, arrogance and intimidation, employing Republican operatives to exercise the tactics of voter fraud by disenfranchising thousands of blacks, elderly Jews and other minorities.
Barbra Streisand

Family, Through, Arrogance

Clearly, the Obama presidency hasn't wiped out racial prejudices.
Ron Fournier

Clearly, Obama, Racial

Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton is the most influential woman in Washington - for what she has accomplished and for what she may yet do: win the presidency.
Ron Fournier

Woman, May, Win

Anything may be possible in America, but a Palin presidency is virtually implausible.
Ron Fournier

May, America, Possible

Say what you want to say about the rest of his presidency, including his tone-deaf response to Katrina and a war waged in Iraq on false pretenses, Bush connected with Americans in the aftermath of 9/11 because he looked as frail and unforgiving as we felt.
Ron Fournier

War, Rest, Felt

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