Bill Cassidy Quotes

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

Every president makes the Oval Office theirs.

I think President Obama is weak, bored with the office, and an incompetent leader.

Presidents need to be critically studied and analyzed.

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.

I think that presidents don't give up power that has accrued to them by the precedent of previous presidents. Even when they say they would like to, I think once they get there they don't give it up.

Whose leadership, whose judgment, whose values do you want in the White House when that crisis lands like a thud on the Oval Office desk?

There are limits on what a president can achieve or do, but the expectations are so great.

There is but one man to whom I am willing to entrust their future and that man's name is George Bush.

A President must always be given credit for all his administration's successes and the final blame for the failures.

Every president of the United States federalizes his values.

A President has a character, and the whole administration takes its character from the President's.

The nature of the Presidency is such that you are always asking yourself what else could you be doing?.

There is one thing about being President—nobody can tell you when to sit down.

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

If you believe, as I do, that the scope and range of presidential authority is great, that puts a lot of weight on the civic virtue and decency of the individual who holds the office.

You don't go to war with the President you want, you go to war with the President you have.

Great presidents take stands, and they fight off these people who really are so far to the right. I don't want to call them names, even though they would call me names.

Every president since George Washington has taken executive privilege seriously. Every Republican president has.

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

How can a president not be an actor?

What's missing is leadership in the White House. And the story that Barack Obama does tell, forever shifting blame to the last administration, is getting old. The man assumed office almost four years ago - isn't it about time he assumed responsibility?

Barack Obama is not a man of The Gut, and it is driving official Washington crazy. This is a good thing, because resisting The Gut is what the Constitution is all about, especially in its war powers, which this president is conspicuously contemplative about exercising, at least in every context except launching drones.

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.

American presidential leadership never goes out of style.