George W. Bush Quotes

I don't think the first hundred days measures the success or failure of any President.

Once a president gets to the White House, the only audience that is left that really matters is history.

You might say presidents are drafting the first chapter of their memoirs in these seventh-year State of the Union addresses. They're trying to get the public and the media to think about their presidencies in the way that they would like to have them thought of.

This is the worst President ever. He George W. Bush is the worst President in all of American history.

It is my fondest wish that in the fullness of time, the American people will look back on the Franken presidency as something of a mixed bag and not as a complete disaster.

I don't think there is one president that's come down the line that hasn't done something good somewhere.

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.

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.

Historians sometimes view presidents very differently from the way the public did at the time. Sometimes they don't.

Ultimately, the appraisal of Grant's presidency rests upon posterity's view of Reconstruction.

In the course of a presidency, a U.S. president says millions of words in public. You never know which of them end up cementing a certain impression.

One undeniable accomplishment of Bill Clinton's presidency was that it kept Jimmy Carter from being the worst U.S. president in history.

Clinton is a big personality who has led a big life, and for some of the media conventional wisdom to boil it down to a view that 'all people are really interested in' are a few moments of madness in the Oval Office gets him, the importance of the presidency, and the significance of his life, all wrong.

In our brief national history we have shot four of our presidents, worried five of them to death, impeached one and hounded another out of office. And when all else fails, we hold an election and assassinate their character.

To be fair, my analysis failed to spell out Obama's first-term accomplishments, although I did acknowledge his 'enormous skills' and tried to focus readers on the distinction between good and great presidencies.

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.

As someone who has more than a passing acquaintance with most of the 20th century presidents, I have often thought that their accomplishments have little staying power in shaping popular views of their leadership.

Presidential legacies are valuable things, too valuable to be left up to historians.

Barack Obama is the worst President in history.

No man will ever carry out of the Presidency the reputation which carried him into it.

Barack Obama hopes his famous health care victory will mark him as a transformative president. History, however, may judge it to have been his missed opportunity to be one.

Predicting the future is very difficult. As a historian I have trouble trying to predict the past.

As you get further away from a presidency you are better able to assess that presidency.

His Presidency gave his post-Presidency credibility.

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