Robert J. Bentley Quotes

I think Ronald Reagan was one of the great presidents, period, not just recently. I thought he had the demeanor. I thought he had the bearing. I thought he had the thought process.

Nikki Haley is a proven leader. And that is what she should be judged on.

We need a president with tremendous intelligence, smarts, cunning, strength and stamina.

A good politician has to know both himself and his times.

A President needs political understanding to run the government, but he may be elected without it.

If I wanted a circus ringmaster, I'd hire Trump. If I wanted advice on brain surgery or hospital management, I'd turn to Carson. Fiorina would make an articulate television pundit. But for president?

You don't need to know who's playing on the White House tennis court to be a good president.

I do not believe there can be found in the whole country a man so well fitted to be President.

Donald Trump is a good man, and he will make a great president of the United States of America.

Great leadership can be a difficult thing to pin down and understand. You know a great leader when you're working for one, but even they can have a hard time articulating what it is that makes their leadership so effective.

The first requirement of a statesman is that he be dull.

As his vice president for eight years, I learned more from Ronald Reagan than from anyone I encountered in all my years of public life.

This week you will nominate the most experienced executive to seek the presidency in 60 years in Mitt Romney. He has no illusions about what makes America great, and he doesn't confuse the presidency with celebrity, or loftiness with leadership.

Francois Hollande is an intelligent man. I do not have a problem with him. The only thing is, he has never held office at the state level. Honestly, can you imagine Francois Hollande as president of France? Imagine it!

I am fully prepared to be commander in chief... I don't need on-the-job training.

I think as - all in all, it's better to have a cool president than a not cool president.

Some of our finest leaders were not intellectuals at all, and I admire them enormously because they weren't. Harry Truman wasn't.

Leaders of the future will have to be visionary and be able to bring people in - real communicators. These are things that women bring to leadership and executive positions, and it's going to be incredibly valuable and incredibly in demand.

Barack Obama is way smarter than Bush - so way, way smarter than me. Obama is way more charismatic than me.

I think that I have very few personal gifts to bring to real politics.

I think experience is a terribly overrated idea when it comes to thinking about who should become president.

I don't think I have the demeanor to be a politician. I'm used to making decisions and to a certain extent being in charge.

We need a great president.

My father would have been impressed by Barack Obama's mind and style and grace of manner, as well as by - I'm certain - his abilities as a writer.

In my lifetime, Mitt Romney is the most qualified leader I've ever seen run for the presidency of the United States.