Quotes about Presidential Behavior

Jimmy Breslin

Politics. Where fat, bald, disagreeable men, unable to be a candidate themselves, teach a president how to act on a public stage.

Joseph R. Biden Jr.

Grow up, Donald Trump. Grow up. Time to be an adult. You're president. You've got to do something. Show us what you have.

Hillary Clinton

[Donald Trump] suggestions are not only offensive but, in certain cases, dangerous and sometimes even illegal, like his dismissal of the laws of the United States international law when it comes to torture.

Brandice Canes-Wrone

Highly popular and unpopular Presidents do not engage in policy pandering.

Canes-Wrone developed Conditional Pandering Theory. The very popular Presidents do not have to engage in pandering. The unpopular presidents will not be helped much so they have little to gain by using this technique which is personally distasteful to almost all politicians. It is the middle of the road Presidents who tend to make the biggest use of policy pandering.

H. L. Mencken

He slept more than any other president, whether by day or by night. Nero fiddled, but Coolidge only snored.

Jeff Flake

Just when you think [Donald Trump] can stoop no lower, he does.

George T. Conway III

If there's one thing we know about President Trump, it's that he lies and he cheats. Endlessly. And shamelessly. But still, mostly, incompetently.

S.E. Cupp

Donald Trump has been president for nearly three years. He's been on Twitter for more than 10. Yet the only thing more surprising than Trump's increasingly awful, hideously unpresidential, deeply divisive tweets is that we still manage to be surprised by them.

Camille Paglia

I'm for a high libido president! I applaud him if he gets up and picks up women.

Cher

You don't have to be smart to act - look at the outgoing president of the United States.

Newt Gingrich

If under the pressure of Washington Donald Trump starts dissembling and saying things that aren't true, he'll decay as much as Obama did well on that.

James H. Rowe

Roosevelt was usually available to each member of the staff.

FDR did not have a chief of staff. Some say that he acted as his own chief of staff. Unlike most other modern presidents, FDR liked to hear different points of view informally. He did not respect lines of authority and talked to people privately throughout the government without going through channels.

Carlos Lozada

American presidents get the scandals they deserve. Richard Nixon's paranoia produced Watergate. Ronald Reagan's indifference contributed to Iran-contra. Bill Clinton's appetites led to impeachment. And Donald Trump's delusions - about his singular abilities and the impunity of his office - are propelling the crisis of legitimacy threatening his presidency. No matter how distinct presidential scandals appear in their origins, however, there is also a weary sameness to how presidents react to them, how Washington mobilizes for them, how history looms over them.

Brian Schatz

It is certainly not news that the president is making mistakes; that he's been intemperate. I think what shouldn't be lost on the American people is that his first tweet around tapes was essentially designed to intimidate James Comey.

Louis Farrakhan

When they say [Donald Trump] is not "presidential": I asked myself what does it mean to be "presidential"? You wear a suit; you talk to the American people like you possess the character and the dignity of one who seeks the highest office in the land, and behind the door you're the worst criminal on the planet, plotting the overthrow of nations and governments, and regime change, and sending drones to kill people you don't like? That's presidential.

Gore Vidal

Of all recent presidents, Clinton was expected to behave the most sensibly in economic matters. He understood how the economy works. But because he had used various dodges to stay out of the Vietnam War, he came to office ill at ease with the military.

Mika Brzezinski

When the President of the United States attacks a movie star it is undignified and it casts a poor light on the United States of America. When the President of the United States attacks a sitting judge and questions his legitimacy, that actually can lead to a Constitutional crisis.

Jorge Ramos

When you talk to a Latin American president, they make you feel so tiny right from the beginning, right from the moment when they shake your hands.

H. W. Brands

There is a certain kind of sobering, civilizing effect that being president imposes on people. There is a certain kind of dignity with which you comport yourself. As an observer of the presidency, I have to wonder if Trump would follow that pattern.

Mohsin Hamid

I think that there is a degree of petulance around President Trump and also a degree of sort of blundering incompetence, which is unlike most businesspeople.

Chuck Todd

I think the worst thing [Donald Trump]did was the tweet the other night about illegal votes.

Robert M. Gates

I don't think any president that I worked with has ever said 'pretty please.'

Kellyanne Conway

When I see Twitter feeds, when I see words that are people are using to describe Donald Trump, it is incredibly disrespectful to the office.

Stephen A. Smith

If you are the president of the United States of America, you are 70 years of age, and you are tweeting - literally competing with 15- and 17-year-olds - that is a problem.

Robin Williams

We have a president for whom English is a second language. He's like 'We have to get rid of dictators,' but he's pretty much one himself.

Presidential Behavior Quotes