Bob Dole Quotes

Historians will eventually sort out the good and bad of each administration.

Most presidents have not considered 100 days a significant milepost.

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

Presidents are always also storytellers, purveyors of useful national mythologies. And surprisingly enough, Richard Nixon, this awkward man who didn't even really like people, had not been so bad at this duty - at least in the first four years of his presidency.

It is one thing to be elected President and quite another for a man to become President. Yesterday, you decisively became President of this great nation.

We’ve had some great presidents in my lifetime. I haven’t agreed completely with any of them.

Every president is not only a new president. He comes in a new age.

There's no question in my mind that I think I would have been a better president than Barack Obama has been.

I think President Obama has been an extraordinarily successful president, and that this period will record that with a bunch of exclamation points. But obviously, not everybody thinks that.

I cannot think of a president or administration that has taken seriously the 100 days.

Barack Obama will go down alongside George W. Bush in that realm as middling presidents because both made too many mistakes to be categorized as an effective, good president.

He was a great president in his first term; in his second term, he wasn't the same Grover Cleveland he was to begin with. ...Cleveland reestablished the presidency by being not only a chief executive but a leader.

When he entered the Oval Office - by fate, not by design - Citizen Ford knew that he was not perfect, just as he knew he was not perfect when he left. But what president ever was?

Thomas Jefferson once said, 'We should never judge a president by his age, only by his works.' And ever since he told me that, I stopped worrying.

In my opinion eight years as president is enough and sometimes too much for any man to serve in that capacity.

But presidents matter. That's one of the biggest lessons I learned being in the White House.

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

Well, Warren Harding, I have got you the presidency. What are you going to do with it?

I will focus on being substantive and I will focus on Barack Obama.

A failure to act is a terrible, stunning legacy for any leader. But far worse when it is the president of the United States. And that's the point driven home by Romney's selection of Ryan, who dared to lead when Obama did not.

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 once told Nixon that the Presidency is like being a jackass caught in a hail storm. You've got to just stand there and take it.

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.

Bill Clinton is the greatest president of the 20th century because I played touch football with him.

I think George W. Bush has a warm, engaging personality. But, you know, the presidency is more than just a popularity contest.