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Presidents today spend more time speaking than they do reading or thinking.
— Kathleen Hall Jamieson
If we start electing presidents on the basis of their sexual purity, some real monsters will get into the White House.
— Hunter S. Thompson
Everybody brings their personality to any position, and that's true for presidents like anyone else.
— Hillary Clinton
Botswana had three successive good presidents who served their legal terms, who did well for their countries - three, not one.
— Mo Ibrahim
At best, most college presidents are running something that is somewhere between a faltering corporation and a hotel.
— Leon Botstein
How many presidents, do you think, ever said to another guy: 'I can't believe we're doing this in the White House'?
— Greg Behrendt
What a welcome sight. You know, it's funny how often people forget that presidents need to eat, too, President
— Suzanne Collins
In the sweep of history, George W. Bush will be seen as one of our greatest presidents because of the decisions he made to keep us safe after 9/11.
— Ronald Kessler
The Presidents job, is not to wield power himself, but to lead attention away from it.
— Douglas Adams
Whenever I came up against presidents of other companies, I was always smarter, because I was from the streets.
— Berry Gordy
Refuse to accept the narrative of history laid down by presidents, prime ministers, generals and journalists.
— Robert Fisk
I find as I grow older, I love those most, whom I loved first.
— Thomas Jefferson
Many presidents have believed in God, but Donald Trump evidently believes that he is God.
— Michael R. Burch
Fuck money, I don't rap for dead presidents, I'd rather see the president dead, it's never been said, but I said precedents.
— Eminem
Someone once called Lincoln two-faced. "If I am two-faced, would I wear the face that I have now?" Lincoln asked.
— Judith St. George
Many of the presidents have sworn themselves in to similarly foolish titles: Governor of Cow Pastures, Commanding General of Standing Chickens.
— Karen Russell
If you're seeking progress, all presidents are the opposition. You're just fighting different kinds of battles -
— Sam Smith
Governors were once minors. Presidents were once residents.
— Michael Bassey Johnson
In the past, presidents had been consulted about those kinds of decisions by SGs, and I thought it was the right thing to do.
— Donald Verrilli Jr.
Presidents do not go off on leave without telling the country.
— Chinua Achebe
Hello fake Everett children.
— Monet Polny
Surveillance changes history. We know this through examples of corrupt presidents like Nixon.
— Mikko Hypponen
American university presidents are a nervous breed; I have never thought well of them as a class.
— John Kenneth Galbraith
Lincoln was not a type. He stands alone - no ancestors, no fellows, no successors.
— Robert Green Ingersoll
Presidents have only two moments of personal seclusion. One is prayer; the other fishing - and they cannot pray all the time!
— Herbert Hoover
On ships they call them barnacles; in business they attach themselves to desks and are called vice presidents.
— Fred Allen
I've been privileged to meet presidents and sing at inaugurations and other political events.
— BeBe Winans
Assassins and presidents invite the same basic question: Just who do you think you are?
— Sarah Vowell
Gerald Ford, one of the most admirable presidents of our time, once observed that if Lincoln were alive today, he'd be turning over in his grave. With
— David McCullough
Presidents hate the press. They hate me most of the time.
— Helen Thomas
Obama has had more fundraisers than the last six presidents combined. And he's still losing in the money race!
— Bill Maher
I deal with guys in their 20s and early 30s who are presidents of companies, who are movie directors.
— Peter Criss
Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln and Roosevelt faced adversities that, in their times, seemed impregnable. Great presidents overcome great odds.
— Ron Fournier
America's presidents tend to die young. Maybe it is in the nature of the men who reach such heights, or of the job once they attain it.
— Nancy Gibbs
All presidents get frustrated with Congress.
— Marco Rubio
When most presidents get in, they move to the center because they realize that this is a centrist country - even Reagan.
— Edward Brooke
The U.S. needs to do more than change presidents. It needs to change its political culture.
— Richard Lamm
Folks, I can tell you I've known eight presidents, three of them intimately.
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The whole issue of healthcare is very complicated. There have been seven Presidents who've tried to get healthcare reform passed.
— Valerie Jarrett
Presidents are selected, not elected.
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
I've played three presidents, three saints and two geniuses - and that's probably enough for any man.
— Charlton Heston
Presidents are not elected anymore; they are hired.
— Michel Templet
I've decided Mom's boyfriends are a lot like U.S. Presidents. You keep thinking they can't get any worse. And then she comes up with a Lance Wescott.
— C.D. Payne
But Nancy is right - Presidents don't have vacations - they just have a change of scenery";
— Ronald Reagan
All modern U.S. presidents are perforce politicians, prisoners of their past pronouncements, their party, their constituency, and their colleagues.
— Tony Judt
Bill Clinton was in the line of great progressive presidents who faced the realities in his own time and applied innovative solutions to problems.
— Sidney Blumenthal
I want to kill the president because I no like the capitalists. I have the gun in my hand, I kill kings and presidents first and next all capitalists.
— Giuseppe Zangara
As President Nixon says, presidents can do almost anything, and President Nixon has done many things that nobody would have thought of doing.
— Golda Meir
If presidents and prime ministers can find time to stay fit, others of us can find ways to do it, too.
— Julian Goater
We all learn submission because we all have 'bosses', whether we're presidents of companies or not. The easiest place to learn it is in family.
— Richard Foster
Money is just dirty paper with dead presidents' pictures on it.
— Carolyn Brown
Seven presidents before him - Democrats and Republicans - tried to expand health care to all Americans. President Obama got it done.
— Julian Castro
presidents had to make
— David Baldacci
Presidents don't make new friends. That's why they've got to keep their old ones. Adm. Fitzwallace
— Aaron Sorkin
Nowadays even presidents, vice-presidents, and heads of big agencies are opening their minds to accept psychic phenomena, because they know it works.
— Uri Geller
Over the last few years, the Islamic world has produced more female presidents and prime ministers than both Europe and North America combined.
— Reza Aslan
But presidents matter. That's one of the biggest lessons I learned being in the White House.
— Sidney Blumenthal
A long life in journalism convinced me many presidents ago that there should be a large air space between a journalist and the head of a state.
— Walter Lippmann
Vice presidents are supposed to be eternally loyal, which is why it is so difficult for some to figure out how to succeed their bosses.
— Susan Estrich
Desperate people are dangerous people.
— Bob Ritter
I head a nation of a million presidents.
— Chaim Weizmann
It is a long revisionist road up from the bottom for George W. Bush. He is ranked toward the bottom rung of presidents.
— Douglas Brinkley
Presidents always want to do nice, noble, long-run things, and Congress is less keen to do so. We've seen that throughout the history of this country.
— Tyler Cowen
Wow. Losing 95 percent of your audience in just five years. That basically makes Obama the NBC of presidents.
— John Oliver
The people who influence our presidents matter.
— Paul Kengor
I don't know anything about American history or presidents. I don't know what tailgating is! I've never been to an Olive Garden!
— Emma Watson
Conservatives don't want to read good, smart books. They mostly want to read Fox and talk radio hosts writing about presidents.
— Alex Pareene
The presidents of colleges have to have some courage to step forward. You can't limit alcohol in college sports, you have to get rid of it.
— Dean Smith
Presidents grow up in the White House. The times shape the man.
— Thomas Friedman
Presidents by six years have been there long enough for the media and the country to see their flaws.
— Robert Dallek
Ex-Presidents of the United States get state subsidies. Not so in Russia. You get no government support.
— Mikhail Gorbachev
even the presidents of Harvard and Yale saw the War of Independence as part of God's design for the overthrow of Catholicism.
— Karen Armstrong
Great presidents don't just fight good fights - they win them.
— Rush Limbaugh
Presidents need to be critically studied and analyzed.
— Robert Dallek
I've met a handful of presidents, from Jimmy Carter to Bill Clinton to George Bush to Barack Obama.
— Jimmie Johnson
Welcome to the Hall of Presidents.
— Ted Theodore