Famous Quotes & Sayings

George H. W. Bush

I want a kinder, gentler nation.

George H. W. Bush

We have ...drawn a line in the sand.

George H. W. Bush

The United States is the best and fairest and most decent nation on the face of the earth.

Jay Leno

It really kind of looks like now that John Kerry is on his way to the presidential nomination. The only thing that can sink John Kerry now is an Al Gore endorsement.

Jay Leno

Presidential Democratic front-runner Howard Dean admitted to Chris Matthews on the 'Hardball' show that he got out of the draft because of a bad back. He had a curvature of the spine. Apparently it curved too far to the left.

Lester Holt

I don't expect us to cover all the issues of this campaign [2016] tonight, but I remind everyone, there are two more presidential debates scheduled. We are going to focus on many of the issues that voters tell us are most important, and we're going to press for specifics.

Gerald R. Ford

I am a Ford, not a Lincoln.

Hillary Clinton

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.

Herbert Hoover

The slogan of progress is changing from the full dinner pail to the full garage.

Herbert Hoover

The course of unbalanced budgets is the road to ruin

Herbert Hoover

Our social and economic system cannot march toward better days unless it is inspired by things of the Spirit. It is here that the higher purposes of individualism must find their sustenance.

Herbert Hoover

We are now speeding down the road of wasteful spending and debt, and unless we can escape we will be smashed in inflation.

Herbert Hoover

The budget should be balanced not by more taxes, but by reduction of follies.

Herbert Hoover

Absolute freedom of the press to discuss public questions is a foundation stone of American liberty.

George Washington

The independence and liberty you possess are the work of joint efforts and common dangers, sufferings, and successes.

Franklin P. Adams

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.

Jack Abramoff

I try to avoid saying anything positive about any presidential candidate for fear that if I actually like them then I will kill their campaign.

Gwen Ifill

One of the unwritten rules in a presidential news conference is that he'll answer questions. If he chooses not to, there's not much you can do about it other than make yourself look like an idiot screaming, which to me is counterproductive.

John Waters

I care about the presidential elections. I always vote. Sometimes I've voted more than once, illegally. But you can't anymore. The picture ID has ruined everything.

John Podhoretz

This has always been the way of presidential politics. The president rises above the fray while his surrogates go on the attack. They throw the spears and fling the mud; he sits upon the throne.

Scott Simon

Bernie Sanders lost the Democratic presidential nomination to Hillary Clinton, but he won more than 12 million votes in the primaries and was respectfully and elaborately saluted by Hillary Clinton, whom he has endorsed.

Theodore Roosevelt

No other President ever enjoyed the Presidency as I did.

Theodore Roosevelt

I feel as fit as a bull moose.

Theodore Roosevelt

One of our defects as a nation is a tendency to use what have been called "weasel words."

Theodore Roosevelt

To discriminate against a thoroughly upright citizen because he belongs to some particular church, or because, like Abraham Lincoln, he has not avowed his allegiance to any church, is an outrage against the liberty of conscience, which is one of the foundations of American life.

Theodore Roosevelt

No President has ever enjoyed himself as much as I?

Theodore Roosevelt

Every reform movement has a lunatic fringe.

Theodore Roosevelt

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

Theodore C. Sorensen

Presidential candidates don't chew gum.

Peggy Noonan

Ted Sorrenson, JFK's presidential speech writer, when asked how it came about that he wrote the "ask not what you can do..." speech, he would answer 'ask not.'

John Quincy Adams

There is nothing so deep and nothing so shallow which political enmity will not turn to account.

John Quincy Adams

Slavery is the great and foul stain upon the North American Union.

Nina Totenberg

I saw a Harry Reid statement saying, there's nothing in the Constitution that says the Senate has to act on any presidential nominee. Well, that was back when President Bush was president and vice versa. So this is not a pretty carrying-on at the moment.