Hodding Carter Quotes

I'm going to be a vice president very much like George Bush was. He proved to be a very effective vice president, perhaps the most effective we've had in a couple of hundred years.

I think I should be a president. President of the United States.

The presidency is more than a popularity contest.

Presidents ought to get the appointments they want for the cabinet and then be responsible for them.

The American presidency combines elements of the efficient and the dignified. The president presides over governance - not making legislation but proposing it, cajoling the co-equal federal legislature and then signing and executing the laws.

When the President makes something a priority, we see action.

The president of the United States is a commander-in-chief, and the president of the United States, you know, executes the laws and tries to motivate the American public to make changes that are necessary. It's not necessarily a CEO type of position.

If you want to understand what is going on in the White House today, you have to begin with Barack Obama.

The presidency is not an office job.

The presidency is the most visible thread that runs through the tapestry of the American government. More often than not, for good or for ill, it sets the tone for the other branches and spurs the expectations of the people.

Secretary of state is far superior to vice president, because it's involved in continuously solving problems and making policy and not being on standby.

I am well aware of what three past presidents have said, but that will not be worth five cents if the people and the Congress do not support their president now.”

Every president of the United States federalizes his values.

We elect our presidents to protect U. S. national interests.

The President must stay in office to steer these changes through.

The President sets the policies and Congress does not. Our lawmakers in Washington ratify and implement what the President wants, but if he is a strong leader and can hold his own party together, even with the majority of the opposition against him he usually can win over enough members of Congress to carry what legislation he really feels is essential.

The Executive [Abraham Lincoln] is frequently compelled to affix his signature to bills of the highest importance, much of which he regards as wholly at war with the national interests.

The shelf life of a seventh-year State of the Union address is about five minutes. Presidents can propose stuff. They're probably not likely to get it done.

We need to work as hard as President Trump is working.

I would never say President Obama doesn't have the capacity to continue to serve because of his statement that there are 56 states.

I think the end of last year when we were aware of that transition was for everyone in their own way kind of bittersweet, but it's also what the show's about, one administration ends and another begins.

I think there was a pretty smooth hand-off from the administration of President Clinton to the administration of President Bush, particularly in the counterterrorism area. The reason I say that is because there was, for transitions, I think a stunning continuity.

I've never covered the president in any way other than that he is ultimately responsible.

The man with the best job in the country is the vice-president. All he has to do is get up every morning and say, 'How is the president?'

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.