Famous Quotes & Sayings

Calvin Coolidge

One of the first lessons a president has to learn is that every word he says weighs a ton.

Calvin Coolidge

If American democracy is to remain the greatest hope of humanity, it must continue abundantly in the faith of the Bible

Calvin Coolidge

Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery.

Al Franken

When the president during the campaign said he was against nation building, I didn't realize he meant our nation.

Al Franken

I want a president who can handle a cream soda.

Al Gore

I don't have the illusion that there's any position or role in the world with as much potential for bringing about change as that of president of the United States.

Al Gore

I pledge to you today that as president, in my first budget, I will introduce the largest increase in special education ever.

Just imagine in 20 years, when candidates will have grown up with social media their entire lives. We're going to have a president where we have - where someone could go through their timeline, or someone could go through their Snapchat, or someone will find - a future president will have sent a d### pic.

Barry Goldwater

The fellow has absolutely no principles."Money and gall" is all he has.

Arjuna Ranatunga

There is no ICC anymore. It is just BCCI. It is not International Cricket Council it is International Crime Council. If you take all the cricket board Presidents am sure they are all puppets. ICC is the toothless tiger.

Bruce Babbitt

We had kind of a rocky start, but I spent a lot of time working with the President and handing him statistics and showing him what we were doing as we went along and kind of saying to him, you know, this is really important.

Brian Williams

I am not interested in being vice president of the United States. I've let the candidate know. If the candidate asks me to be vice president, the answer is I got to say yes. But he's not going to ask me.

Conan O'Brien

In an interview, former vice-presidential candidate Paul Ryan said he does not have a racist bone in his body. However, he admitted he has three sexist bones and his spine is homophobic.

Conan O'Brien

Arnold Schwarzenegger is in some trouble. Today, the Los Angeles Times broke a story that quoted six women who claimed that Arnold Schwarzenegger sexually harassed them. When asked about it, President Clinton said 'six? That's not enough experience to be governor.'

Conan O'Brien

President Obama has decided that he wants his presidential library to be in Chicago, not Hawaii. Today Hawaii's governor said, 'Great, who's going to want to come to Hawaii now?'

Conan O'Brien

President Obama, by the way, has set a Guinness World Record as the fastest person to get a million Twitter followers. Obama now has as many followers as the Republicans have presidential candidates.

Conan O'Brien

Donald Trump called George W. Bush 'the worst president in the history of the United States.' Then he added, 'Until, of course, I'm elected.'

Conan O'Brien

President Obama announced that he's going to reopen diplomatic relations with Cuba. He wants to act before Seth Rogen makes a movie about Castro.

Conan O'Brien

President Obama has pledged $3 billion to aid poor nations. All of that $3 billion is going to the United States.

Conan O'Brien

A congressman sent a tweet that compared president Obama to Adolf Hitler. He has now apologized. It's not helping that he apologized to Hitler.

Conan O'Brien

On Election Day, Ralph Nader will appear on the presidential ballot in only 45 states. Yeah, Nader said, this is really disappointing, I wanted to embarrass myself in all 50 states. That was the plan.

E. W. Howe

A women could never be President. A condidate must be over 35, and where are you going to find a woman who will admit she's over 35?

Colin Powell

I would sit and talk to any president who wishes to talk to me, but I'm not anxious to rule it in.

Helen Thomas

Presidents hate the press. They hate me most of the time.

Donald Sutherland

It's the things we love most that destroy us.

Doris Kearns Goodwin

(from John Hay's diary) “The President never appeared to better advantage in the world,” Hay proudly noted in his diary. “Though He knows how immense is the danger to himself from the unreasoning anger of that committee, he never cringed to them for an instant. He stood where he thought he was right and crushed them with his candid logic.

Andrea Tantaros

Maybe Republicans should get nukes and the president [Barack Obama] will talk to them.

Andrew Sullivan

...when a reporter is quoting Sid Blumenthal on president Bush, you know he's scraping the barrel.

Amelie Nothomb

I thought maybe I would become a god, or a goddess, or a president or a Nobel Prize winner.

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

I can be President of the United States, or I can control Alice. I cannot possibly do both.

Drew Gilpin Faust

I’m not the woman president of Harvard, I’m the president of Harvard.

Don DeLillo

There's never a dearth of reasons to shoot at the President.

Donald Trump

Senator [Ted] Cruz is not qualified to be president because he doesn't have the right temperament and acted like a maniac when he arrived in the Senate.