President Quotes

While you're saving your face, you're losing your ass.

Doing what's right isn't the problem. It is knowing what's right.

I will do my best. That is all I can do. I ask for your help - and God's.

No member of our generation who wasn't a Communist or a dropout in the thirties is worth a damn.

There are plenty of recommendations on how to get out of trouble cheaply and fast. Most of them come down to this: Deny your responsibility.

Every man has a right to a Saturday night bath.

Education is not a problem. Education is an opportunity.

What convinces is conviction. Believe in the argument you're advancing. If you don't you're as good as dead. The other person will sense that something isn't there, and no chain of reasoning, no matter how logical or elegant or brilliant, will win your case for you.

We are not about to send American boys 9 or 10 thousand miles away from home to do what Asian boys ought to be doing for themselves.

The vote is the most powerful instrument ever devised by man for breaking down injustice and destroying the terrible walls which imprison men because they are different from other men.

I am a freeman, an American, a United States Senator, and a Democrat, in that order.

Being president is like being a jackass in a hailstorm. There's nothing to do but to stand there and take it.

You do not examine legislation in the light of the benefits it will convey if properly administered, but in the light of the wrongs it would do and the harms it would cause if improperly administered.

When the burdens of the presidency seem unusually heavy, I always remind myself it could be worse. I could be a mayor.

If you let a bully come in your front yard, he'll be on your porch the next day and the day after that he'll rape your wife in your own bed.

There are no problems we cannot solve together, and very few that we can solve by ourselves.

If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read: 'President Can't Swim.'

If future generations are to remember us more with gratitude than sorrow, we must achieve more than just the miracles of technology. We must also leave them a glimpse of the world as it was created, not just as it looked when we got through with it.

The guns and the bombs, the rockets and the warships, are all symbols of human failure.

Peace is a journey of a thousand miles and it must be taken one step at a time.

I have learned that only two things are necessary to keep one's wife happy. First, let her think she's having her own way. And second, let her have it.

Who, then, will govern? The answer must be, Man - for we have no angels in the shape of men, as yet, who are willing to take charge of our political affairs.

There are no good laws but such as repeal other laws.

Slavery exists. It is black in the South, and white in the North.

If I am shot at, I want no man to be in the way of the bullet.

I hold it the duty of the executive to insist upon frugality in the expenditure, and a sparing economy is itself a great national source.

I feel incompetent to perform duties... which have been so unexpectedly thrown upon me.

I am sworn to uphold the Constitution as Andy Johnson understands it and interprets it.

If the rabble were lopped off at one end and the aristocrats at the other, all would be well with the country.

Outside of the Constitution we have no legal authority more than private citizens, and within it we have only so much as that instrument gives us. This broad principle limits all our functions and applies to all subjects.