John Legend Quotes

He's the president of the United States. He's got to work 14 to 16 hours a day, run foreign and domestic policy. If he's got time for mistresses after all that, what the hell difference does it make?

My fellow citizens, the American Presidency is not supposed to be a journey of personal discovery.

There are blessed intervals when I forget by one means or another that I am President of the United States.

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

The office of the President is so staggeringly complicated that nobody can ... be a good President.

When it comes to the qualifications that we should demand of our president, to start with, we need someone who will take the job seriously.

Every president learns in the course of your time in office, but the American people have the right to expect that you walk in the door prepared for the job.

Being president does seem a lot more stressful than being vice president.

As a public figure, you deserve to be treated fairly.

President Trump, who made his name in the business world and built a brand as a successful CEO via a reality TV show that punished incompetence, was not just elected for a series of tough policy views.

I have grown used to the fact that public repentance is the most unacceptable option for the modern politician.

As you approach the presidency, no one seems worthy of it, since it wasn't designed for a human in the first place.

Who could have predicted this, that the presidency is kind of a hard job? Nobody knew that. I also like the fact that Trump is a detail-oriented person. I find his interviews amazing. He's actually kind of remarkably candid.

Being president isn't anything like reality TV.

Boris Johnson needs to be challenged, with passion, heart and precision.

Being the front guy is a hard job.

I've been on reality TV since I was 23.

If President Obama were to enroll in an American government class, the professor would mark him absent on most days. In the first 100 days of his second term, the president has failed to show up to class, take notes and complete the daunting task of rising to the challenges facing him.

There was a perception that reality-show people are just mere personalities, that they don't have real talent, and I worked real hard to change peoples' minds, one show at a time, and proved a lot of people wrong. I'm proud I was the first to do that for 'Idol' on Broadway!

We are ambassadors. We are leaders of our own brands, and then in life things are thrown at you, you have to stand up for what's right. That brings on a whole new role. It's not on the front of the agenda that you see, but if you read the fine print it's part of becoming an athlete and the pedestal you get with that.

I want people to see the full measure of Donald Trump.

If a man's public record be a clear one, if he has kept his pledges before the world, I do not inquire what his private life may have been.

I'm going to do everything I can to be the best president I can be for all America.

The job of being president, understanding the particular policies that America has gotten itself into over the past 400 years.

I've written a book that hopefully will give people a sense of what [presidency] was like. I hope my friends read it and say, "Now I understand." I hope my detractors read it and say, "Well, I better understand."