Theodore Roosevelt Quotes

His Presidency gave his post-Presidency credibility.

When you leave the White House, you wonder if you’ll ever draw a crowd again.

Presidents live and work in a house of history. They dwell with ghosts. Present power and the weight of the past are ambient realities of daily life in the presidency, and the two are intimately connected.

The office of President is a great one; to every true American it seems the greatest on earth. And to me, as I was engaged in weaving a background of music for the pageantry of it, there came a deeper realization of the effect of that office on the man.

The presidency awed me, but presidents do not. Perhaps I have always expected too much of them, but I believe that when they reach the highest office in the land, they should live up to the greatest honor that can come to a person in American political life. Some have stood the test better than others.

The White House used to belong to the American people. At least that's what I learned from history books and from covering every president starting with John F. Kennedy.

We all obviously need others to look up to, and be inspirational to us. Ford did a great job as far as putting the presidency back where it belonged, getting the trust back after Nixon. And President Reagan has been one of the most influential presidents.

Washington's birthday is worthy of celebration - he is one of the greatest men in history. But Washington himself would likely have seen celebration of the office of the presidency itself as monarchic in nature.

I will make a prophecy that may now sound peculiar. In fifty years Lincoln's name will be inscribed close to Washington's on this Republic's roll of honor.

I can't deny I'm a better ex-president than I was a president.

It is a national disgrace that after having occupied the highest position in the country, that our presidents should be cast adrift, and perhaps be compelled to keep a corner grocery for substance.

Oh, what a lovely title, ex-president

The actions of our president systematically provide both the legal and political justifications for similar initiatives undertaken by later presidents.

As Obama prepares to begin the last year of his presidency, he stands in an unusual position on the national stage: He is the rationalist, a creature of intellect rather than emotion.

If every senator looks into the mirror and sees a future president, then every president looks into that same mirror and sees himself on Mount Rushmore.

I'll always respect that institution of the presidency, and I'll respect President Trump.

There is one good thing about no longer being President. You can make your own notes and say what you want. Of course no one cares any more what you say.

I can't stand that Richard Nixon fellow.

It has been a habit of presidents to try to write their own history, to establish themselves as a legitimate embodiment of America's past and shaper of America's future.

The President wants to avoid being a lame duck. He’s trying not to limp and quack at the same time.

Someday, someone will follow in my footsteps and preside over the White House as the President's spouse. And I wish him well.

President [William Howard] Taft is an amiable man, completely surrounded by men who know exactly what they want.

I believe that [Bill] Clinton is the best tactical politician, certainly in my lifetime.

Most ex-Presidents would be glad to become ex-officio members of the Senate without a vote.

Most people still believe that the White House is a moral address and that only men and women of good character should occupy it.