Famous Quotes & Sayings

James Madison

A public debt is a public curse.

Jimmy Fallon

Time magazine interviewed Bill Clinton about the current presidential campaign, and he claimed he had to ask Hillary to marry him three times before she said yes. Then Hillary was like, 'Yeah. That wasn't me.'

Jonathan Raban

Lincoln, steeped in the Bible and Shakespeare, set an impossibly high bar for presidential prose.

Lyndon B. Johnson

You ain't learnin' nothin' when you're talkin'.

Lyndon B. Johnson

All I have I would have given gladly not to be standing here today.

Lyndon B. Johnson

Come now. let us reason together.

Lyndon B. Johnson

A President's hardest task is not to do what is right, but to know what is right.

Lyndon B. Johnson

Our partnership has been built on four pillars The first pillar is peace. The second pillar is freedom. The third pillar is respect. The fourth pillar is cooperation.

Fred Thompson

Let's not overlook, though, what we do know about the campaign finance scandal, and the fact the Chinese were involved in our presidential campaign and our congressional campaigns.

Helen Thomas

The presidential news conference is indispensable because it is the only forum in our society where you can be questioned on a regular basis and held accountable.

John Jay Hooker

Sen. Frist has every right, and indeed the duty, to see that every presidential nominee for the Federal bench at every level gets an up or down vote.

John Irving

Patriotism is not necessarily defined as blind devotion to a president's particular agenda - and that to dispute a presidential policy is not necessarily anti-American.

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.

Gore Vidal

If you're not part of that club, as I certainly am not, you are not presidential.

James A. Garfield

When the shadow of the Presidential and Congressional election is lifted we shall, I hope to be in a better temper to legislate.

James A. Garfield

I have had many troubles in my life, but the worst of them never came.

Gary Vaynerchuk

I'm pretty good at sticking to what I know. You don't see me social commentating on health-care or presidential debates. I talk about what I know because I'm petrified of being wrong.

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.

Chris Hayes

Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz did their best Donald Trump impersonation. All three unleashing an unprecedented string of insults and attacks fit more for a barroom than a presidential debate stage.

George W. Bush

If you don't feel something strongly you're not going to achieve.

George W. Bush

It's important for the writers of the presidential daily brief to feel comfortable that the documents will never be politicized and/or unnecessarily exposed for public purview.

Jeff Goodell

Nowhere has the political power of coal been more obvious than in presidential campaigns.

Grover Cleveland

My greatest trials come through those professing to be near and attached friends, who expect things.

Grover Cleveland

Above all, tell the truth.

Ian Somerhalder

Thirty years ago, if you wanted to start a campaign against or for something, you had to print flyers, you had to make a million phone calls. Remember presidential campaigns and stuff? It was a very laborious thing. Now we can literally talk to each other in a nanosecond.

Hugh Sidey

The legions of reporters who cover politics don't want to quit the clash and thunder of electoral combat for the dry duty of analyzing the federal budget. As a consequence, we have created the perpetual presidential campaign.

Jane Mayer

Barack Obama was elected President in 2008 and re-elected in 2012. The natural thing would be to suggest money on the right [wing] doesn't really matter that much. The first thing you have to know is that the presidential elections are the ones where it's most difficult for money to hold sway, in that they're the most public elections.

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.