Best 411 quotes in «presidential quotes» category

Vice President Dick Cheney reportedly has been disturbed over what he sees as the erosion of presidential powers since the Watergate scandal and has urged Bush to take a stronger stand against what Cheney sees as congressional intrusions into the executive branch.

want to get to the substance of the book ["Thank You for Being Late"], but it is so closely connected to this presidential election. And you also wrote a series of columns during the campaign, very tough on Donald Trump. You called him a disgusting human being and now you're calling the election a moral 9/11 only 9/11 was done to us from the outside. We did this to ourselves.

War should never be entered upon until every agency of peace has failed.

War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today.

Wealth can only be accumulated by the earnings of industry and the savings of frugality.

We are creating a political demolition derby, not a presidential debate. Those strange impulses in the American soul that have produced mud wrestling and The Gong Show seem to have claimed the national campaign.

We are a nation that has a government-not the other way around. And that makes us special among the nations of the earth.

We are seeing Republicans uniting behind this [presidential] campaign [2016].

We asked for God's help; and now, in this shining outcome, in this magnificent triumph of good over evil, we should thank God.

We can say with some assurance that, although children may be the victims of fate, they will not be the victims of our neglect.

We Americans have no commission from God to police the world.

We can have national dialogue where different Syrian parties sit and discuss the future of Syria. You can have interim government or transitional government. Then you have final elections, parliamentary elections, and you're going to have presidential elections.

We establish no religion in this country. We command no worship. We mandate no belief, nor will we ever. Church and state are and must remain separate.

We have a presidential election coming up. And I think the big problem, of course, is that someone will win.

We did not come to fear the future. We came here to shape it.

We have become more and more not a nation of athletes but a nation of spectators.

We have certain things where we know they exist or "everybody knows they exist," but naturally nobody can photograph them, because they are so super secret. For example, the PEOC, the Presidential Emergency Operations Center exists, but nobody knows how it looks, but it's a so called bunker where he can survive a nuclear attack.

We have nothing in our history or position to invite aggression; we have everything to beckon us to the cultivation of relations of peace and amity with all nations.

We keep hearing how qualified Hillary Clinton is. She's well prepared to be president, more exposure to the president than anybody else. Hillary Clinton is the most prepared to be impeached in advance of any presidential candidate America has ever had!

We celebrate the past to awaken the future.

We have learned that social injustice is the destruction of justice itself.

We must not be misled by the claim that the source of all wisdom is in the government.

We need to be more precise in how we talk about these issues. People around the word follow our presidential campaigns so closely, trying to get hints about what we will do.

We must teach our children to resolve their conflicts with words, not weapons.

We need a spirit of community, a sense that we are all in this together. If we have no sense of community, the American dream will wither.

We're going to let foreign corporations and their CEO's decide the outcomes of the [presidential elections] you just can't do this.

We the people tell the government what to do, it doesn't tell us.

We must use time as a tool, not as a couch.

We've seen it in the last U.S. presidential campaign 2016: both sides were trading graphs and circulating data visualizations to make their point. So the political establishment is waking up to the power of a good graph as well.

Whatever one's religion in his private life may be, for the officeholder, nothing takes precedence over his oath to uphold the Constitution and all its parts - including the First Amendment and the strict separation of church and state.

What if Barack Obama established a Presidential Advisory Committee that would meet once every couple of months, bringing together the former presidents for a conference in order to seek their collective wisdom? There is a wealth of experience in former presidents that generally goes untapped.

What I see of the US Presidential elections from down here makes me want to disengage from that particular reality and just hole up and read. It's true. I think if I were living in the US, I would just turn my television and radio off for a year right now, and just read.

We're more than friends and neighbors and allies; we are kin, who together have built the most productive relationship between any two countries in the world today.

What Washington needs is adult supervision.

What is happening to Donald Trump in terms of the way he's being reported on and cast with the media is the way every Republican presidential candidate has been treated in my life.

When I first started working in politics, as a junior aide on Walter Mondale's 1984 presidential campaign, it never occurred to me that I would one day work in the White House. There were plenty of women among the volunteers who stuffed envelopes and walked precincts. But there were fewer and fewer on each successive level of influence and access.

When I hit the skins they all say, 'Damn Kane... You knock out the Bush like a presidential campaign!'

When the Presidential virus attacks the system there is a tendency for the patient in his fever to move from the Right or the Left to the Center where the curative votes are.

When they call the roll in the Senate, the Senators do not know whether to answer 'Present' or 'Not guilty.'

When Uganda got debt relief in 1999, the first item President Museveni bought was a presidential jacket for himself.

When I cover a major presidential, when I vote for a major presidential, or when I cover a major presidential candidate out on the campaign trail, I make it a policy not to vote on the presidential ballot in that election.

We've got 50 percent voter turnout for presidential elections. That's appalling. We can do so much better.

When you are in any contest, you should work as if there were - to the very last minute - a chance to lose it. This is battle, this is politics, this is anything.

When you have a president in his campaign who ran saying things that not are just contrary to a fact, but literally threatening to use presidential power in a way that would erode the rights and privileges and equality of large sections of Americans, God bless the protestors.

While men inhabiting different parts of this vast continent cannot be expected to hold the same opinions, they can unite in a common objective and sustain common principles.

When you're the presidential nominee you get to pick whomever you choose to be on the ticket, and that person gets to say yes or no because, obviously, it's a very important decision.

Why would there be any contacts with Russian between the presidential campaign? This is all a distraction, and it's all part of a narrative to delegitimize the election and to question the legitimacy of this presidency. The American people see right through it.

With the Republican Party`s presidential front-runner proposing that all Muslims should be banned from entering the United States, that perhaps there ought to be a national registry of Muslims, that we ought to looking into Muslims having to carry government ID cards that state their religion, now, the word fascist is being used to describe this ascending and leading Republican politician.

Working on your biceps? Try chopping down a cherry tree.

Yes, the presidential race is very close, and some public polls show it getting closer as we go into the final hours, but in one sense it's actually been stable for months.