Mitt Romney Quotes

I don't think the first hundred days measures the success or failure of any President.

The truth is that I have never created a president to push a political point of view. I am often looking to create aspirational characters; that's true. But, you know, in the end, it is really up to the actor in front of the presidential seal to decide exactly what kind of president you're going to get.

It's not implausible that Donald Trump could have been a successful President.

But presidents matter. That's one of the biggest lessons I learned being in the White House.

Even if I disagree with Obama on many, many things, he is certainly qualified to be president. He is certainly competent to be president.

In the alternate universe of conservative talk radio, the killing of Bin Laden coincidentally happened on Barack Obama's watch. He had to be kicked dragging and screaming into authorizing it, and even then he made lots of mistakes.

I do have to say that I think that President Obama is the greatest President in the history of all of our Presidents, and that he can do no wrong in my book. So how's that for prejudice on the Democratic side?

To be fair, my analysis failed to spell out Obama's first-term accomplishments, although I did acknowledge his 'enormous skills' and tried to focus readers on the distinction between good and great presidencies.

I don't think there is one president that's come down the line that hasn't done something good somewhere.

What is wrong with George Bush? What is his problem?

Whether you are a Democrat or Republican, whether you are a liberal or a conservative, we know that neither this President nor prior Presidents of both parties did everything right or we would not have had a 9/11.

Giving Obama credit for killing Bin Laden is Ike giving Harry Truman credit for dropping the [atomic] bomb: any president would’ve pushed that button.

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?.

As everyone knows, I have never been a fan of George Bush's presidency.

Barack Obama was a good president, and hopefully, Donald Trump is a good president.

If Obama was fundamentally different from prior presidents, Trump seems to violate every tenet of what Americans have long sought as our national image.

Now, today is the day we honor, of course, the Presidents, ranging from George Washington, who couldn't tell a lie, to George Bush, who couldn't tell the truth, to Bill Clinton, who couldn't tell the difference.

I can't see any difference in government between Bush and Obama apart from the color of their skin.

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

When you see how the President makes political or policy decisions, you see who he is. The essence of the Presidency is decision-making.

Once you're done being president, you tend to want to defend your record more than plumb your inner feelings. I find it hard to imagine Obama going home at night and writing sensitive, introspective journal entries about his meeting with John Boehner.

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

George W. Bush will always do better than you expect.

The notion that it is desirable to have a President who can give his full attention to the "presidency" and not worry about reelection is quite a mistake.