Presidency Quotes

"The President is the last person in the world to know what the people really want and think."
-James A. Garfield

"A woman will be elected President before Wade Boggs is called out on strikes. I guarantee that."
-George Brett

"The President seems to extend executive privilege way out past the atmosphere. What he says is executive privilege is nothing but executive poppycock."
-Sam Ervin

"It was as simple as this: The Kennedys had a feeling of being heightened and it rubbed off on the people who came in contact with them. They were a unit."
-Charles Spalding

"President Bush left for Canada today to attend a trade summit. Reportedly, the trade summit got off to an awkward start when the president pulled out his baseball cards."
-Conan O'brien

"Frankly, I don't mind not being President. I just mind that someone else is."
-Edward M. Kennedy

"This could truly be a defining moment for his presidency or, depending on what he does, empty promises."
-Karen Wayland

"It's been the least successful year of his presidency."
-Stephen Wayne

"In my lifetime, I have never felt more ashamed of, or more frightened by my leadership in Washington, including the presidency, or the Senate."
-Harry Taylor

"I think I've heard that one before. But it comes down to the person. Anybody can deliver the line. The question is: Can you compartmentalize these issues so they don't consume you? And I think Bush's job is more difficult than Clinton's because the questions here go right to the heart of the presidency."
-Mark Fabiani

"I told the caller that first they should let me know who had instructed for my presence in the meeting. Was it the Presidency or the Board?"
-Javed Miandad

"I think he might well decide that the end of the G-8 presidency is the time to go. I don't think he would want to go in the middle of it."
-Jeremy Corbyn

"I will regain the presidency by way of the constitution, the truth and popular support."
-Lucio Gutierrez

"If the French vote 'no,' most analysts believe it would destroy any possibility of Chirac standing again for the presidency in 2007."
-Robin Oakley

"This is the biggest revolt Bush has faced and it comes on the issue that has been the core and heart of his presidency, namely security."
-David Birdsell

"Nothing he has done throughout his presidency has drawn more fire from conservatives."
-Ron Brownstein

"I believe there is a moment of sorrow in the country. We join with that sorrow from the presidency."
-Tony Saca

"The issue of the presidency should be done with. It must be rescued from its current state."
-Samir Geagea

"If Karl Rove were indicted, that would be like George W. Bush losing his right arm at a time when he needs every limb he's got to climb out of the hole he's in and to rebuild his presidency."
-David R. Gergen

"The presidency should show objectivity and bear in mind the collective interests of all its members, of the EU, and not a special interest which it itself has."
-Kypros Chrysostomides

"The presidency, whoever is in it, has real advantages in the struggle, but we may see that the Congress finally believes that the Bush administration has gone too far."
-John Samples

"You can't win the presidency if you don't carry Florida. That gives us a leg up."
-Al Austin

"The most challenging of his presidency, but not that unusual from a historical perspective."
-Whit Ayres

"When you're giving a tour of the Oval Office, you're trying to point to things that emphasize what you're trying to do. For him, the optimism is very symbolic of what he wants his presidency to be about."
-Nicolle Wallace

"Republicans are spending at a rate not seen since Lyndon Johnson's presidency, ... They're legislating as if deficits don't matter."
-Pete Sepp

"This is a shot to the solar plexus of George Bush's agenda. The ripples go out in so many different directions, to so many different areas of policy, domestic and foreign. It's second only to 9/11 in its impact on the course of the presidency."
-William Galston

"Not only did he regularly order criminal activity, lie to grand juries, stonewall the grand jury, abuse the CIA, the FBI and the IRS, it was almost as if Nixon was using the presidency as an instrument of personal revenge. Screw so-and-so who was against Nixon."
-Bob Woodward

"The best America is a nation where the son of Greek immigrants, with your help, can seek and win the presidency of the United States."
-Michael Dukakis