Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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.

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.

John F. Kennedy

If all of you had voted the other way - there's about 5500 of you here tonight - I would not be the President of the United States.

John F. Kennedy

Je me sens vraiment entre amis. (I feel that I am truly among friends.)

John F. Kennedy

Our alliance is born, not of fear, but of hope. It is an alliance that advances what we are for, as well as opposes what we are against.

John F. Kennedy

For one true measure of a nation is its success in fulfilling the promise of a better life for each of its members. Let this be the measure of our nation.

John F. Kennedy

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.

Mary Cheney

The vice presidential candidate tends to be a bit of an afterthought.

Jimmy Fallon

In a new interview, the president discussed the upcoming election. He said that Hillary Clinton is going to do great as a presidential candidate. When asked how Biden would do, Obama said, 'Hillary's going to do great.'

Joan Blades

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

Karl Rove

Hurricane Sandy interrupted Mr. Romney’s momentum and allowed Mr. Obama to look presidential and bipartisan.

Monica Crowley

American presidential leadership never goes out of style.

Peter Breggin

Only in psychiatry is the existence of physical disease determined by APA presidential proclamations, by committee decisions, and even, by a vote of the members of APA, not to mention the courts.

Phil Donahue

The Commission on Presidential Debates is a corrupt stranglehold on our democracy.

John Lewis

I'm gonna say that I have followed every presidential campaign since the campaign of President [John F.] Kennedy in 1960.

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.

Nicki Minaj

Bought the president the Louis presidential briefcase Never been a cheapskate

Gloria Steinem

You can't be what you can't see, so it's harder for women to say, "I'm going to be a [presidential] candidate," so we need to go to women who would be good candidates and say, "You would be a good candidate and I'll help you." It's not a passive question, it's not when will it happen, but an active question, when will we make it happen?

Geraldine Ferraro

I am the first to admit that were I not a woman, I would not have been the vice-presidential nominee.

Harry S Truman

We seek a peaceful world, a prosperous world, a free world, a world of good neighbors, living on terms of equality and mutual respect, as Canada and the United States have lived for generations.

Harry S Truman

It is time that all Americans realized that the place of labor is side by side with the businessman and with the farmer, and not one-degree lower.

Harry S Truman

He "wasn't used to being criticized, and he never did get it through his head that's what politics is all about. He was used to getting his ass kissed."

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.

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.

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.