President Quotes - Page 8

• The long-continued and useful public service and eminent purity of character of the deceased ex-President will be remembered.

  Ulysses S. Grant

  Character, Long, Purity

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• In 1856...I preferred the success of a candidate whose election would prevent or postpone secession, to seeing the country plunged into a war the end of which no man could foretell. With a Democrat elected by the unanimous vote of the Slave States, there could be no pretext for secession for four years.... I therefore voted for James Buchanan as President.

  Ulysses S. Grant

  Country, War, Men

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• He was a great president in his first term; in his second term, he wasn't the same Grover Cleveland he was to begin with. ...Cleveland reestablished the presidency by being not only a chief executive but a leader.

  Harry S. Truman

  Leader, Firsts, Cleveland

  Harry S. Truman (2015). “Where the Buck Stops: The Personal and Private Writings of Harry S. Truman”, p.21, New Word City

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• I tend to pair up Benjamin Harrison and Dwight Eisenhower because they're the two presidents I can think of who most preferred laziness to labor.... There's not much else you can say about Harrison except that he was president of the United States.

  Harry S. Truman

  Thinking, Two, Pairs

  Harry S. Truman (2015). “Where the Buck Stops: The Personal and Private Writings of Harry S. Truman”, p.50, New Word City

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• When the death of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt thrust him suddenly into the Presidency in April of 1945 at one of the most critical moments of our history, he met that moment with courage and vision. His farsighted leadership in the postwar era has helped ever since to preserve peace and freedom in the world.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Vision, Eras, Critical Moments

  Nixon, Richard M. (1974). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Richard M. Nixon, 1972”, p.1160, Best Books on

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• My president will boldly throw 1 million into poverty.

  Charles Rangel

  Poverty, Millions

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• I've always thought that the President could do so much here to help change images. If the President would go into a public bathroom in the Capitol, and have the TV cameras film him cleaning the toilets and saying 'Why not? Somebody's got to do it!' then that would do so much for the morale of the people who do the wonderful job of keeping the toilets clean. I mean, it is a wonderful thing that they're doing.

  Andy Warhol

  Jobs, Mean, People

  Andy Warhol (2014). “The Philosophy of Andy Warhol: From A to B and Back Again”, p.113, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• We are divided between those who think with their heads and those who know with their heart. Consider Harriet Miers. If you think about Harriet Miers, of course her nomination is absurd. But the President didn't say he thought about his selection. He said this: "I know her heart." Notice how he said nothing about her brain? He didn't have to. He feels the truth about Harriet Miers.

  Stephen Colbert

  Heart, Thinking, Brain

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• President Lorenzo Snow declared that it is "the grand privilege of every Latter-day Saint . . . to have the manifestations of the spirit every day of our lives."

  Dallin H. Oaks

  Snow, Saint, Privilege

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• No one has died from giving a bad presentation. Well, at least one person did, President William Henry Harrison, but he developed pneumonia after giving the longest inaugural address in U.S. history. The easy lesson from his story: keep it short, or you might die.

  Scott Berkun

  Pneumonia, Giving, Stories

  Scott Berkun (2009). “Confessions of a Public Speaker”, p.13, "O'Reilly Media, Inc."

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• Eventually, somebody is going to be a hero, and somebody's going to be president. Not necessarily the same person.

  Howard Baker

  Hero, Persons

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• One of the most meaningful things that's happened to me since I've been the governor - the president - governor - president. Oops. Ex-governor. I went to Bethesda Naval Hospital to give a fellow a Purple Heart, and at the same moment I watched him-get a Purple Heart for action in Iraq - and at that same - right after I gave him the Purple Heart, he was sworn in as a citizen of the United States - a Mexican citizen, now a United States citizen.

  George W. Bush

  Meaningful, Heart, Purple

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• Obama is a tyrant the same way FDR was a tyrant. He has a view of presidential power that states: the government is in control of the country, and the president is in charge of the government. He's taken an imperial view of the presidency.

  David Mamet

  Country, Taken, Government

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• Maxwell's Equations have had a greater impact on human history than any ten presidents.

  Carl Sagan

  Impact, Maxwell, Equations

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• When Reagan left office, he was the most unpopular living president, apart from Nixon, even below Carter. If you look at his years in office, he was not particularly popular. He was more or less average. He severely harmed the American economy.

  Noam Chomsky

  Average, Years, Office

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• Anyone willing to do what is required to become president of the United States is thereby barred from taking that office. I'm only half joking

  Alan Greenspan

  Office, United States, Half

  Alan Greenspan (2008). “The Age of Turbulence: Adventures in a New World”, p.60, Penguin

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• Before any American points a finger at President Putin and calls him nasty names, they should recognize that a lot of Americans agree with Putin on his stance against homosexual and transgender people.

  Henry Rollins

  Names, People, Nasty

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• I hate painting with a broad brush, but I think the birther thing, at its root, is racist. The guy was born in Hawaii. A black guy is president. It's cool. Get over it. Just deal with it. There's nothing you could show these birther people that would shut them up.

  Henry Rollins

  Hate, Thinking, Roots

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• I wonder what it's like to be from a state that is spread across a few islands way out in the Pacific Ocean, only added to the United States in 1959. Not only that but to be the birthplace of America's first black president? Pretty cool, I bet.

  Henry Rollins

  Ocean, Birth Place, America

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• Americans have been dumbed down to the point where more people watching 'American Idol' than listen to the state of the union address. And that's too bad. I'm not trying to take any bread out of the mouth of Simon Cowell, but if the president is speaking to the people of the United States, and people are going to watch 'American Idol,' that's sad.

  Henry Rollins

  Idols, People, Trying

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• The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was vigorously and vociferously opposed by the Southern states. President Lyndon B. Johnson signed it into law nonetheless.

  Henry Rollins

  Rights, Law, Southern

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• 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

  Thinking, People, Giving

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• Every politician, every president gets votes by getting people that don't like him to like him. That's why politicians are slippery: because they talk out of both sides of their mouth.

  Henry Rollins

  People, Mouths, Sides

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• I don't believe it mattered to Timothy McVeigh who was president or who his congressional representative was when he blew up the Murrah Building in 1995.

  Henry Rollins

  Believe, Building, Representatives

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• President Bush, yes, spent money like a drunken sailor, and left the nation with a record $400-billion deficit. President Obama, however, is spending far more money than Bush, with a record $1.8 trillion deficit projected for his first year.

  Paul Kengor

  Years, Records, Sailor

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