Woodrow Wilson Quotes

Pinochet and Barack Obama both have the same primary goal, and that's to be president and stay president as long as allowed.

If the people of the United States can be trusted to elect a President for one term, or two terms, they also can be trusted to determine whether he should be considered in office for a third term.

What a President says and thinks is not worth five cents unless he has the people and Congress behind him. Without the Congress I'm just a six-feet-four Texan. With the Congress I'm President of the United States in the fullest sense.

I never believed that surrendering the executive power should be a condition of getting the second term. The second term should stand on its own feet.

If I were the president, I would be very concerned... and I would do what was reasonably necessary to find a way to get my people confirmed.

Weak presidents are neither respected nor electorally rewarded by their publics.

There is a substantial difference between the President being able to wave to the crowd from a hospital window and being able to govern.

I don't believe the President of the United States should debate with anybody.

Presidents cannot seem to be hesitating in any area that concerns their propriety.

When you become president, they don't give you a magic wand that you wave. You have to get legislation passed. You have to get agencies to run programs.

It is not the function of the leader of government business to discipline members of the executive.

A President has a great chance; his position is almost that of a king and a prime minister rolled into one.

To execute laws is a royal office; to execute orders is not to be a king. However, a political executive magistracy, though merely such, is a great trust.

When you're the commander in chief, you're the commander in chief on day one. You don't get like a six-month grace period. The world doesn't just stop and say, well, let's wait until the president catches up before we start challenging America.

'This is how democracy works,' Barack Obama lectured the country before giving everyone the specifics of his expansive one-man executive overreach on immigration. If you enjoy platitudinous straw men but are turned off by open debate and constitutional order, this speech was for you.

The presidency does not yield to definition. Like the glory of a morning sunrise, it can be experienced.

I am president, I don't own the country so they are not my forces.

Even the country's first president chafed at the limits placed on him by the writers of the U.S. Constitution. From the nature of the Constitution, ... I must approve all the parts of a bill, or reject it in toto.

I'm of the belief that you can have only one commander-in-chief at a time, only one president at a time. President Bush is our president. Whatever he decides vis-a-vis war or peace in Iraq is what we will do as a country. And I for one will swing in behind him as a citizen ... and support whatever his decision is.

The president has the authority to end this dragnet surveillance immediately

Most presidents come to Washington bright as freshly minted dimes and leave much diminished.

What [President Donald Trump] is doing is taking away the executive overreach that President [Barack] Obama did which we thought exceeded his powers.

By statute, Congress has given the president the authority to suspend immigration - any class of immigration if he deems it in the national interest.

In four short years he has turned our country from a prosperous nation at peace into a desperately indebted nation at war. But so what? He is the President of the United States, and you're not. Love it or leave it.

Military tribunals to lock people up the way Lincoln did.