Listen, I have a great affection and respect for Joe Biden. I think he's been a great vice president. He's taken on a lot of tough assignments for our administration. - David Axelrod Far be it from me to denigrate Senator McCain's advice on vice presidential nominees. - David Axelrod Except for the title 'father,' there is no title, including 'vice president,' that I am more proud to wear than that of United States senator. - Joe Biden Remember, no one decides who they're going to vote for based on the vice president. I mean that literally. - Joe Biden I don't doubt a number of those ballots, of those votes that were cast for me, probably were intended for Vice President Gore. - Pat Buchanan As his vice president for eight years, I learned more from Ronald Reagan than from anyone I encountered in all my years of public life. - George H W Bush When I talked to him on the phone yesterday. I called him George rather than Mr. Vice President. But, ...

US presidents can make all the commitments and declarations they want until they are blue in the face, in the Muslim world they will always be perceived as partisan. - Daniel Barenboim How many McDonald's gift certificates would it take to sway a lot of Americans to pledge to never publicly criticize the U.S, President? - James Bovard Americans, though apparently impressed by ghastly sentimentality and outrageous hypocrisy, are by nature much more politically cynical than Canadians. In their longer history they have had much more to be cynical about. They demand a vulgar show, enjoy it, guffaw, and forget it the next morning. When a new U.S. President takes office all bets are off and his campaign platform is dismantled and stored away. - Gordon Donaldson it's important to make sure that we're talking with each other in a way that heals, not in a way that wounds. - Barack Obama, 44th U.S. President - Barack Obama And we have done more in the two and a half years that I...

The American President resembles the commander of a ship at sea. He must have a helm to grasp, a course to steer, a port to seek. - Henry Brooks Adams On the contrary, I tried on numerous occasions to convince the American president not to go to war. I did what was within my capabilities to avoid that happening. - Silvio Berlusconi I believe the most solemn duty of the American president is to protect the American people. If America shows uncertainty and weakness in this decade, the world will drift toward tragedy. This will not happen on my watch. - George W Bush My message to the Americans, to the American President, is that I am coming from Poland, which is in good shape; it is much different than ten years ago when last state visit from Poland was here in the United States. - Aleksander Kwasniewski The true sovereign is not the American president nor the English king, but the Lord of the Second Advent. - Sun Myung Moon That loyal retainer of the Chase Manhattan Bank, the Amer...

Not one Republican president has balanced the budget in 34 years. You can not trust Republicans with your money. - Howard Dean We've not had one Republican president in 34 years balance the budget. You can't trust right-wing Republicans with your money. You ought to hire somebody who has balanced a budget. I'm much more conservative with money than George Bush is. - Howard Dean It was a Republican, President Dwight D. Eisenhower, who first protected the Arctic Refuge to balance the oil development at Prudhoe Bay with responsible conservation. - Robert Dold And so it was interesting for me to find myself very enamored of a Republican president, but Ronald Reagan was someone I thought captured the spirit of America. - Ed Gillespie The fact of the matter is it's very reasonable to ask the wealthiest estates to pay their share. We did that since Teddy Roosevelt, a Republican president. - Chris Van Hollen Every president since George Washington has taken executive priv...

They say President Wilson has blundered. Perhaps he has, but I notice he usually blunders forward. - Thomas A Edison President Wilson says a leader must treat public opinion the way a sailor deals with the wind, using it to blow the ship in one direction or another, but never trying to go directly against it. - Ken Follett

We support President Truman's civil rights program. - Eugenie Anderson That was the principle of reparations to which President Truman agreed at Potsdam. And the United States will not agree to the taking from Germany of greater reparations than was provided by the Potsdam Agreement. - James F Byrnes I would say that President Roosevelt probably was more intimately in touch with the press corps at the White House than President Truman was. - Clifton Daniel I would like to say that no man ever was given finer cooperation than that given me by President Truman. - Paul Hoffman At the time it seriously troubled me, but in drafting me as Marshall Plan Administrator, President Truman did as great a favor for me as one man can do for another. It opened my eyes to many things of which I was totally unaware and it was the beginning of my real education. - Paul Hoffman

Can any of us even imagine, after Pearl Harbor, President Roosevelt suggesting we negotiate a resolution or that we could simply prosecute those involved? Of course it is unimaginable. We are right to be in the Middle East, and we are right to treat this as the war it is. - Marsha Blackburn My knowledge of the state of President Roosevelt's health was derived entirely from conversations, from newspaper articles and from photographs. - David Bruce I would say that President Roosevelt probably was more intimately in touch with the press corps at the White House than President Truman was. - Clifton Daniel President Roosevelt, the author of Social Security, was the first to suggest that, in order to provide for the country's retirement needs, Social Security would need to be supplemented by personal savings accounts. - John Doolittle

If the right people had been in charge of Nixon's funeral, his casket would have been launched into one of those open-sewage canals that empty into the ocean just south of Los Angeles. He was a swine of a man and a jabbering dupe of a president. Nixon was so crooked that he needed servants to help him screw his pants on every morning. Even his funeral was illegal. He was queer in the deepest way. His body should have been burned in a trash bin. - Hunter S Thompson I was so opposed to the war in Vietnam that I initially refused President Nixon's urgings for me to go there. - Sammy Davis Jr The Vietnam War required us to emphasize the national interest rather than abstract principles. What President Nixon and I tried to do was unnatural. And that is why we didn't make it. - Henry A Kissinger I firmly believed throughout 1971 that the major hurdle to winning the presidency was winning the Democratic nomination. I believed that any reasonable Democrat would defeat President...

The Chinese say that you should never, ever buy a used desk unless you know the history of it. They claim that if it belonged to a bad businessman, his karma will befall you. This one here belonged to President Kennedy. So what do you think that means? (Randy) I don't know, but if I were you, I wouldn't ride through Dallas in a convertible in November. Bad feng shui. (Steele) - Sherrilyn Kenyon And Hale was devoted to President Kennedy, and there was some talk following the assassination that Hale had warned the President not to go to Dallas, and the connotation was that it would be physically dangerous for him to do so. - Lindy Boggs I think he Oswald felt he was a failure and for the United States and for President Kennedy and all of us. He knew he was a failure at everything he tried, frustrated, with a very sad life, but he was a Marxist. - John Sherman Cooper President Kennedy was willing to go to war. He was not a coward. The man had been in war and so had Ken O'D...

The consequences of President Johnson's campaign of deliberate deception regarding Vietnam could hardly have been more catastrophic for the nation, the military, the president, his party, and the presidency itself. - Eric Alterman Well, Hale was one of the first people who suggested to President Johnson that there should be a commission. - Lindy Boggs I am very proud to come back, to speak on the disinterested effort we have made and I believe that, with all due respect, that the decisions we made, when we turned our final report over to President Johnson, will stand in history. - John Sherman Cooper President Johnson put destroyers in harm's way in the Tonkin Gulf not only once, but several times, with the, with a lot of his people hoping that it would lead to a confrontation and claiming that it had. And could have resulted in the lost of many lives in the course of it. - Daniel Ellsberg I'm sure that President Johnson would never have pursued the war in Vietnam if h...

I am grateful to President George W. Bush for PEPFAR, which is saving the lives of millions of people in poor countries and to both Presidents Bush for the work we've done together after the South Asia tsunami, Hurricane Katrina and the Haitian earthquake. - William J Clinton When President George W. Bush cut taxes, he cut them for everyone. - Ari Fleischer President George W. Bush is the first American president to call openly for two-states, Israel and Palestine, living side by side in peace and security. - Lee H Hamilton I think that when people hear the president [George W. Bush] speak, frankly, they think he's really stupid. But what people don't realize is that there's a genius behind that stupidity, and that genius is Harlan McCraney. - Arianna Huffington Not too many years ago, both parties acknowledged that our entitlement commitments were a sword hanging over our heads. But when President George W. Bush tried to begin discussions on Social Security reform...

Since Social Security was established by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1935 to ensure economic security for American workers, poverty among American seniors has dramatically declined. - Steve Israel The bible says no man can take your joy. That means no person can make you live with a negative attitude. No circumstance, no adversity can force you to live in despair. As Eleanor Roosevelt, wife of wheelchair-bound President Franklin D. Roosevelt, often said, 'No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. - Joel Osteen

The standard rumor at the time was that Rumsfeld, as chief of staff, had persuaded President Ford to appoint George H.W. Bush as director of Central Intelligence, assuming that that got rid of a potential competitor for the presidency. - Bobby R Inman There needs to be a planned series of speeches, interviews, etc., over the next two or three months by administration officials and other public figures talking about President Ford, what he is trying to do and what he has accomplished. - Robert Teeter This person should not be directly connected with the President Ford Committee nor should he be seen as a member of the liberal wing of the Republican Party. He should be someone like Laird or Rogers Morton. - Robert Teeter President Ford was a devoted, decent man of impeccable integrity who put service to his country before his own self interest. He helped heal our nation during a time of crisis, provided steady leadership and restored people's faith in the presidency and in govern...

We make a lot of fun at President Clinton's expense. But this transition is going to be tough because it's been 25 years since this guy has gotten laid in the private sector. - David Letterman We put together a one-sentence petition asking Congress to censure President Clinton and move on to other pressing issues. We sent it to under 100 friends and family, and within a week we had 100,000 people sign the petition. - Joan Blades 22 million new jobs under President Clinton. 3 million lost under Bush. - Sidney Blumenthal For President Clinton, according to this discussion I had with him, Rwanda was a marginal problem. - Boutros Boutrosghali It was OK for the media to pursue Former President Clinton year after year for lying about a private, consensual sexual affair, but we have five justices who committed one of the biggest crimes in American History, and it ceased to be a big story. - Vincent Bugliosi You know, it's been President Clinton's dream that we'll hav...

In his 4 years in the White House, President Carter worked to make the Federal Government more competent and compassionate and more responsive to the American people. - Nathan Deal We saw what happened in Jimmy Carter's administration. President Carter was a good man with the best of intentions. But he came to Washington without a good working relationship with Democratic members of Congress, which played a big part in his administration's problems. - Jim Hunt I'm a political scientist and I study these things, and I know that economic problems, with the rising unemployment and inflation and low productivity and so forth, were a factor in that election, in that defeat of President Carter. - Jeane Kirkpatrick

We expect President Bush to implement his own vision of a two-state solution, the birth of the Palestinian State and the ending of the occupation that started in 1967. - Mahmoud Abbas I'd like President Bush to think maybe there's another way to think, that maybe Kissinger was wrong when he says we had to go in there because he was wrong about Vietnam. - F Murray Abraham I'd like President Bush to get a gun in his hands. I'll go with him. I can't think of anything better than to die in place 's just beginning their lives. - F Murray Abraham I think back a little bit when President Bush was elected President and what kind of economy he inherited from the Clinton administration. The economy was going down. It was not doing well. - Wayne Allard President Bush's mercury rule is a gift to the big energy companies that helped put him in office. - Tom Allen President Bush, have a hot dog with me. - Stephen Colbert Sir, pay no attention to the people who say ...

The American President resembles the commander of a ship at sea. He must have a helm to grasp, a course to steer, a port to seek. - Henry Brooks Adams On the contrary, I tried on numerous occasions to convince the American president not to go to war. I did what was within my capabilities to avoid that happening. - Silvio Berlusconi I believe the most solemn duty of the American president is to protect the American people. If America shows uncertainty and weakness in this decade, the world will drift toward tragedy. This will not happen on my watch. - George W Bush If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged. - Noam Chomsky I found myself thinking about President William McKinley, the third American president to be assassinated. He lived for several days after he was shot, and towards the end, his wife started crying and screaming, "I want to go too! I want to go too!" And with his last measure of strength, McKinley tu...