Rush Limbaugh Quotes

I don't think people realize how many decisions the president of the United States makes about military action.

The only person who counts in the administration is the president of the United States.

I would prefer to let the president make the decisions that the president needs to make.

I'm the President and the Commander-in-Chief. Do it my way.

I think I will be a great president having to do with the military and also having to do with taking care of our vets.

I respect the office of the president.

I'm not a policy and a strategy guy. I'm - you know, the military basically supports what the president wants, the decisions that he makes.

The president is the only one we have to make decisions. We have no one else.

Ultimately the Presidency is about the President.

Well, what the hell is the Presidency for?

The President has full responsibility, which cannot be shared, for military decisions in a world in which the difference between safety and cataclysm can be a matter of hours or even minutes.

A President who has served in the military is better able to serve as Commander in Chief …. I was a better President for having served …

When the president and the prime minister decide to implement reforms, they have all the measures they need to pass them and enforce them.

The president is in charge of the military so that a single individual - accountable to Americans - is responsible for its successes and failures.

If President [Barack] Obama - President [Donald] Trump shows up with a, you know, cleaver and just says, I can get rid of all these regulations, I can get rid of ObamaCare, no problem at all, then that would be a mistake.

The president does not have power under the Constitution to unilaterally authorize a military attack in a situation that does not involve stopping an actual or imminent threat to the nation. As commander in chief, the president does have a duty to protect and defend the United States. In instances of self-defense, the president would be within his constitutional authority to act before advising Congress or seeking its consent.

President Bush has proven he'll take a stand and fight for his programs and initiatives. It's the kind of leadership that makes things happen.

President [Ronald] Reagan never has tried to become an expert on military matters. He never has endeavored to learn the most important details in that field, which lead to a situation in which his aides played a much greater roles than aides would have played under President Ford or let us say in the whole Nixon-Ford-Kissinger era.

(President Nixon,) in the face of a vote to impeach he might try, as "commander-in-chief", to use military forces to keep himself in power.

A president has to provide leadership to gain support.

I do think the president's best role is usually as the sort of initiator.

The president [Barack Obama] himself has said he thought part of his job was to remind the American people that being president and commander in chief is a serious responsibility.

Presidents and Lyndon Johnson was really no exception, very rapidly learned the difference between a contingency plan and an authorized act.

When George W. Bush decided to save the American position in Iraq by going against the advice of all of his wise men, of Jim Baker and the whole Iraq Study Group, and 90% of his administration, that was George W. Bush's decision. So we have to bear in mind that this isn't an administration we're electing. It's a person that we are electing.

The day that the leadership of the military comes to me and says, "Senator, we ought to change the policy," then I think we ought to consider seriously changing it.