Presidential Dignity Quotes

You know, for one glorious half hour, I was the mother of the president-elect.

I respect the office of the president.

Any man who has ever been honored by being made President of the United States is thereby forever after rendered the American people.

Presidents have a right to certain prerogatives, including the expectation of a certain deference. He's the president; this is history. But we seem to have come a long way since Ronald Reagan was regularly barked at by Sam Donaldson, almost literally, and the president shrugged it off.

We've flown the president since Eisenhower, and we're going to continue to fly the president for generations to come. This is something we're very proud of.

It is impossible and incompatible with the dignity of the United States to have its senior official [President Nixon] and to have its Secretary of State under this sort of attack in the face of the dangers we confront and the risks that may have to be run and the opportunities that may have to be seized.

When it comes to the president, we have to respect him, we have to protect him, and we have to correct him. And in my career, since he'd been on the national stage at least, I've had - I've always respected the president.

Trump continues to diminish the office of the Presidency.

The president of the United States, whoever it is, deserves a certain level of reverence and respect just because of the office he holds.

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.

There should be some civility when it comes to being president of the United States.

Ronald Reagan would never go into the Oval Office without his jacket on - that's how much he revered the presidency.

If you are an American, you have got to defend the standards of the presidency of the United States.

I think the president should be accessible, should answer questions that aren't pre-screened, but I think there should be a little bit of dignity to the presidency.

I'll always respect that institution of the presidency, and I'll respect President Trump.

This is the President of the United States. Move over!

I really think it's important for presidents to exit the stage gracefully.

Obama's pop-cultural focus may seem demeaning to the office of the presidency. It may be mockable. But it is also tremendously effective.

I cannot, whilst President of the United States, descend to enter into a newspaper controversy.

It's time to restore honor and dignity to the White House.

Jimmy Carter used to walk off the airplane carrying his own luggage. Do you remember that? I don't want my president carrying - I want the freaking Marines to be carrying his luggage, and they want to carry his luggage.

It would never do for the President to have guards with drawn sabers at his door, as if he fancied he were, or were trying to be, assuming to be, an Emperor.

When you get to be President, there are all those things, the honors, the twenty-one gun salutes, all those things. You have to remember it isn't for you. It's for the Presidency.

For the president to resign now would be wrong. President Clinton may have debased himself with his behavior, but we shouldn't debase the office with an impulsive overreaction.

Coolidge liked the dignity of the presidency. He didn't get on the phone easily. It's possible that he banished the phone from his desk. He was known to use it from time to time. The person who was hilarious with the phone was Hoover. He was a real engineer. He made a closed circuit phone where he could call the important people and they could call him, a government hotline, but it was closed. He shut out the possibility of input from people he didn't expect to get input from.