George W. Bush Quotes

The President of the United States has more than the responsibility for the people of this country. He has the responsibility of providing hope for the people of the world.

It is the President upon whom the Constitution devolves, as head of the executive department, the duty to see that the laws be faithfully executed; but as he cannot execute them in person, he is allowed to select his agents, and is made responsible for their acts within just limits. So complete is the presumed delegation of authority in the relation of a head of department to a President, that the Supreme Court of the United States have decided that an order made by a head of department is presumed to be made by the President himself.

The executive power is better to be trusted when it has no screen. Sir, we have a responsibility in the person of our President; he cannot act improperly, and hide either his negligence or inattention; he cannot roll upon any other person the weight of his criminality; no appointment can take place without his nomination; and he is responsible for every nomination he makes…. Add to all this, that officer is placed high, and is possessed of power far from being contemptible, yet not a single privilege is annexed to his character; far from being above the laws, he is amenable to them in his private character as a citizen, and in his public character by impeachment

To leave positions of great responsibility and authority is to die a little.

Every President has to have a scapegoat.

The President is responsible to the public for the conduct of the person he has nominated and appointed.

The Presidential function is difficult and full of responsibility. It calls from the incumbent a plenitude of his physical vigor. I am aware I am no longer strong enough for the task. Wherefore, I resign.

Civilian control of the military is an inviolable principle, which means that civilians should bear the chief responsibility when the military is misdirected.

A President finds that his job has shrunk to cajoling a recalcitrant Congress, exhorting and indifferent public, and reconciling warring factions in an administration—where he takes the blame for actions over which he has no control and that he probably would have opposed had he been given any advance notice of them.

Previous candidates who get elected are almost always sobered by the office and the responsibility they take on. Donald Trump shows no evidence of that. He's the same Trump that he was when he was host of his reality TV show. He's the same Trump that he was when he was a candidate.

I am the president now, the president of everybody.

The presidency has a funny way of making a person feel the need to pray.

To leave positions of great responsibility and authority is to die a little, but the time comes when that must be faced.

No one who has not had the responsibility can really understand what it is like to be President, not even his closest aides or members of his immediate family. There is no end to the chain of responsibility that binds him, and he is never allowed to forget that he is 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.

The presidency is not merely an administrative office...It is pre-eminently a place of moral leadership.

Membership in a conspiracy, as in an army, frees people from the sense of personal responsibility.

The fault of the horse is put on the saddle.

Grow up, Donald Trump. Grow up. Time to be an adult. You're president. You gotta do something. Show us what you have.

I happen temporarily to occupy this big White House. I am living witness that any one of your children may look to come here as my father's child has.

Someone now has to step up and take on the mantelpiece.

Donald Trump ought to realise that being a president is different to being a candidate and that there is a responsibility that comes with the office.

If you look at the other people around at the time - Charles Clarke, Alistair Darling, Jack Straw - they've all gone. And they're not old. What's happened is that someone who is quite old - Jeremy Corbyn - is now leader. We have to take some responsibility for that.

I feel it is my duty to plod on, while daylight shall last.

I still don't feel responsible for what Donald Trump says or does. But I do feel a responsibility as president of the United States to make sure that I facilitate a good transition and I present to him as well, as the American people my best thinking, my best ideas about how you move the country forward. To speak out with respect to areas where I think the Republican party's wrong, but to pledge to work with them on those things that I think will advance the causes of security and prosperity and justice and inclusiveness in America.