H. W. Brands Quotes

Biden's about as disciplined as a puppy, OK?

Perhaps the mistake I made at the start of my mandate is not understanding the symbolic dimension of the president's role and not being solemn enough in my acts. A mistake for which I would like to apologise or explain myself and which I will not make again. Now, I know the job.

I never thought I would run for Congress. If you look back at a certain reality TV show, you know that.

I've never been a fan of presidents who place blame on their predecessors or who accept credit for events that couldn't have been engineered so soon in their tenure.

I'm not prepared for holding office any more than I think Arnold is.

I don't think you run just because political opportunity is there. That's how we wind up with politicians who aren't ready for their jobs.

President [Donald} Trump should stop tweeting and start leading.

I believe that the role of president of the United States is vastly different from the role of candidate and that the Donald Trump of the campaign will not succeed as president.

Donald Trump was an entertainer and is in many ways.

I am a reality TV legend. I am most famous for the first season of 'The Apprentice,' and then I had an opportunity to work in Washington in the Trump White House.

We can't cross our fingers and hope that President Donald Trump can 'learn and change.'

I'm not interested in being Donald Trump or anybody else's vice president, that's not what I'm aiming at.

The ones who are in the Senate have to have a position.

What about those [Donald] Trump supporters out there and we've seen several incidents of this, with racially-charged intimidation of students and things like that? Doesn't President-Elect Trump have some responsibility to say something about that?

He was making a very serious point. Donald Trump has a way of talking to get people's attention, and it's drawn attention to a very important issue.There was a time when a Democrat president knew where the buck stopped in the White House. And the responsibility for the failed policies in the Middle East that created the environment where ISIS developed belongs to President Barack Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, and the American people know that.

Being president isn't anything like reality TV.

Donald Trump is an entertainer. Okay. He goes on shows like Howard Stern's to get people to watch his program. "The Apprentice" or buy his books or whatever. When he goes in there, he back then when it happened was basically trying to entertain. All right. So he had no public policy on his mind, none of that. All right. He's an entertain.

We can hope that the responsibilities and realities will weigh on Donald Trump and he will not be the president we fear, but rather something more stable.

At the same time we receive different signals all around that in fact, everything is fine. The same situation occurred with the previous administrations during the election campaigns, claims that everything will be restored later. I do not think it matches the level of responsibility shouldered by the United States. I suppose it should be more sound, calm and balanced.

There was not a word of apology, not a word of explanation to the American people. The president's going to have to get a touch of reality.

It's a sad thing about politics that most people get power too late, in that they differ from ladies of easy virtue who get their pleasures too early.

I have a sense of this man [Donald Trump]. I have a sense of his heart.

Can we expect [Donald] Trump to have a thicker skin as president?

I would like to see more successful business people run for office.

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.