Famous Quotes & Sayings

Stephen Ambrose

I thought Nixon was the worst President we had ever had, save only perhaps Andrew Johnson.

Stephen Colbert

Northwestern's alumni list is truly impressive. This university has graduated best-selling authors, Olympians, presidential candidates, Grammy winners, Peabody winners, Emmy winners, and that's just me!

Tim Bishop

However, this President sees no problem eliminating funding for Perkins Loans in his budget, even though the cost of tuition is rising and will continue to rise as the administration's policies force inflation.

Thomas Jefferson

Botany I rank with the most valuable sciences.

Thomas Jefferson

Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.

Thomas Frank

Above all else stands the burning question of bipartisanship. Whatever else the politicians might say they're about, our news analysts know that this is the true object of the nation's desire, the topic to which those slippery presidential spokesmen need always to be dragged back.

Thomas Frank

Presidential legacies are valuable things, too valuable to be left up to historians.

William McKinley

The mission of the United States is one of benevolent assimilation.

William McKinley

In the time of darkest defeat, victory may be nearest.

William J. Clinton

Thomas Jefferson believed that to preserve the very foundations of our nation, we would need dramatic change from time to time. Well, my fellow citizens, this is our time. Let us embrace it.

William J. Clinton

President Obama's record on national security is a tribute to his strength, and judgment, and to his preference for inclusion and partnership over partisanship.

William J. Clinton

If President Reagan could be an actor and become president, maybe I could become an actor. I've got a good pension. I can work for cheap.

William J. Clinton

Edgar Wayburn has worked to preserve the most breath-taking examples of the American landscape. In fact, over the course of more than a half-century, both as President of the Sierra Club and as a private citizen, he has saved more of our wilderness than any person alive.

William J. Clinton

I did not have sexual relations with that woman

William Gibson

Hollis thought he looked like William Burroughs, minus the bohemian substrate (or perhaps the methadone). Like someone who'd be invited quail shooting with the vice-president, though too careful to get himself shot.

Sarah Palin

What does the vice president do?

Sarah Palin

It's very noble of President Obama to want to stay at the helm and maybe go down with this sinking ship.

Warren G. Harding

I don't know much about Americanism, but it's a damn good word with which to carry an election.

Ronald Reagan

How can a president not be an actor?

Ronald Reagan

Welfare's purpose should be to eliminate, as far as possible, the need for its own existence.

Valerie Jarrett

The President has been a big proponent of the public option since the campaign.

Ulysses S. Grant

Declare church and state forever separate and distinct; but each free within their proper spheres.

Ulysses S. Grant

If you see the President, tell him from me that whatever happens there will be no turning back.

Roger Ailes

I want to elect the next president.

Rob Woodall

To be fair, Republicans are not blameless. The deficit began to spiral out of control on President Bush's watch.

Ryan Lochte

Abe Lincoln is my favorite president of all time - and he pulls off that top hat pretty well.

Russell Baker

The best thing about being President is that it gets you out of American life. I don't know what the theory is behind this, but it is a fact. The first thing we do with a President is shunt him off to a siding where nothing American can ever happen to him.

Rob Portman

There has never been a campaign where there hasn't been sniping from the outside and second-guessing. I hear the same sometimes from the Democratic side in terms of President Obama's campaign, so that's to be expected.

Richard M. Nixon

If the President does it, it can't be illegal.

Richard M. Nixon

What kind of nation we will be, what kind of world we will live in, whether we shape the future in the image of our hopes, is ours to determine by our actions and our choices.

Richard M. Nixon

You won't have Nixon to kick around anymore, because, gentlemen, this is my last press conference.

Richard M. Nixon

The great silent majority.

Rich Little

If you become president, you're guaranteed to develop some nervous habit.