Head of State Quotes

Even in Poland, where the president is far less powerful than the prime minister, people have a deeper and more atavistic relationship with the person who is a serious contender to become head of state. They want their national leader - the tribal chief - to look like them, to live like them, to reflect their values.

I'm George Bush. I'm the president.

The Vice President has two duties: To daily inquire about the health of the President and to attend the funerals of third world dictators, neither of which interest me.

The president is the face of the State of Israel around the world: not a representative of a specific ideology but of the collective creativity and history of the Jewish people.

The President is the CEO of this business that we call America.

Well, what the hell is the Presidency for?

Unlike a monarch, the President is not the Sovereign.

As far as I'm concerned, when the Queen, who we all love very much, is finished with her reign then Britain should go and stop being a banana republic as it is when we have the royal family and become a real republic.

You need a head of state--with continuity. Sometimes this is more important than political power.

The President has only 190 million bosses. The Vice President has 190 million and one.

The President’s own

I seem to be the only Western playwright not personally acquainted with the new President of Czechoslovakia [Vaclav Havel]. I envy him though. What a relief to find oneself head of state and not have to write plays but just make history. And no Czechoslovak equivalent of Charles Osborne snapping at your ankles complaining that the history you’re making falls between every possible stool, or some Prague Steven Berkoff snarling that it’s not the kind of history that’s worth making anyway. I wonder whether Havel has lots of uncompleted dissident plays. To put them on now would be somehow inappropriate. Still, he could write a play about it.

I believe the Australian people have an affection for the Queen, and so they should have.

The presidency does not yield to definition. Like the glory of a morning sunrise, it can be experienced.

The president is the government.

Nature abhors a vacuum, even in the heads of statesmen.

I respect the office of the president.

God bless America. And no place else.

I think it's in the hands of each head of state: the future of peace in his own country.

The president today is the seat of all power.

Presidents are not only the country's principal policy chief, shaping the nation's domestic and foreign agendas, but also the most visible example of our values.

The presidency is not an office job.

Do you take the President of the United States to he a commission broker? You have come to the wrong place, and for you and every one who comes for such purposes, there is the door!

Hitler didn't snub me - it was our president who snubbed me. The president didn't even send me a telegram.

Folks, I can tell you I've known eight presidents, three of them intimately.