American President Quotes
Views on the office and the people in it
Several quotes here reflect on the American president from unusual vantage points, including a former intelligence officer's surprise and a foreign leader's personal impressions. See Important quotes for more.
Over the course of my career as an undercover officer in the C.I.A., I saw Russian intelligence manipulate many people. I never thought I would see the day when an American president would be one of them.
The true sovereign is not the American president nor the English king, but the Lord of the Second Advent.
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I liked Kennedy. So far, he is the only American president who could talk with me and with whom I could talk. I know Johnson, but I have not yet a clear opinion of him.
I think it is so great right now that we are in an age where there's an African American president in office. I think it is important for our generation to really witness that.
American Quotes
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.
Trump is the first post-World War II American president to view the burdens of world leadership as outweighing the benefits.
There's no doubt we'd be very angry if the American president had come to the Knesset and argued against the government of Israel.
We went into Iraq because Saddam Hussein refused to account for his weapons of mass destruction, consistently violated UN resolutions and in a post-9/11 world no American president could afford to give Saddam Hussein the benefit of the doubt.
The Arab Spring showed that people are not going to wait for an American president to make good on his big talk about democracy and human rights; they are going to fight for those rights themselves and overthrow pro-American dictators...
Doubt Quotes
If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged.
Fighting back against Iran is difficult and costly. No American president from Carter to Obama has been willing to take it on.
The world is fortunate - for the time being, at least - that it has an American president in Obama who is prepared to take a conciliatory and concessive attitude towards America's decline and that it has a Chinese leadership...
I'm not going to tell the American president how to run America, but I think it is important that when friends are speaking to each other that they are able to be very frank in the views that are exchanged,...
One of the banners I would put up in front of any American president and new administration is 'Do not overreact to your predecessors' policies.'
Go Quotes
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.
What would happen if an angel appeared before the American president and told him there was no more need for war? Everything would collapse.
I don't think anybody can take the word of Saddam Hussein and his regime, and certainly an American president and allies who are obligated to worry about the safety and security of our countries, cannot take the word of this...
Well, Mr Obama inherited probably the biggest inventory of problems, certainly foreign policy problems, than any American president ever has. I think the entire inventory of problems that he inherited is probably as big overall as any president, certainly since...
It's odd to say we had our first African American president before our first African-American-owned movie studio, but we're making progress.
Important Quotes
Most Americans are unaware that Thomas Jefferson was the first American president to go to war against radical Islam. Jefferson was very concerned with Islam's war-like doctrine and its inability to separate mosque and state.
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