Presidential Evaluation Quotes

One undeniable accomplishment of Bill Clinton's presidency was that it kept Jimmy Carter from being the worst U.S. president in history.

Thomas Jefferson once said, 'We should never judge a president by his age, only by his works.' And ever since he told me that, I stopped worrying.

I think Ronald Reagan was the best President of my lifetime.

You elect a President for four years and then you judge him in 100 days.

Barack Obama will go down alongside George W. Bush in that realm as middling presidents because both made too many mistakes to be categorized as an effective, good president.

Any reasonable person looking at the policy results... the substance... the facts would agree that the Trump presidency is one of the most successful in American history.

Ultimately, the appraisal of Grant's presidency rests upon posterity's view of Reconstruction.

George W. Bush is the worst President in U. S. history.

I'm not going to critique every utterance of the president.

I don't think the first hundred days measures the success or failure of any President.

A major Iowa newspaper published an op-ed against Trump calling him a 'self-absorbed, wholly unqualified feckless blowhard.' Or as Trump put it, 'You forgot very rich ... I'm a very rich, self-absorbed, wholly unqualified feckless blowhard. Very, very rich.'

I - obviously, I'm not a big fan of President Obama. I think he's been one of our weakest presidents. I just fundamentally disagree with him philosophically.

I can think of no better reason to vote against Obama than the prospect of an administration where any criticism of the President is treated as racism.

Now that President Trump is a reality, I happily have been giving him a chance to see how he does.

Thomas Jefferson once said. He said , "We should never judge a President by his age, only by his works." And ever since he told me that, I've stopped worrying. There are those who say I've stopped working.

I think Barack Obama is gonna go down as the worst president ever, frankly. I used to say that about Jimmy Carter but I think he's gonna be surpassed.

We’ve had some great presidents in my lifetime. I haven’t agreed completely with any of them.

If you look back at past administrations, they're probably a little bit behind where former President George W. Bush was.

Bill Clinton is the greatest president of the 20th century because I played touch football with him.

Sometimes a President seems greater after he has left office than while he was in it.

Reagan's dead, and he was a lousy President.

Pundits are saying that President Obama is starting to lose support among his own party. To give you an idea of how bad it's gotten, today Jimmy Carter compared him to Jimmy Carter.

Some might think that George W. Bush had his shortcomings, but let me tell you something - history's going to be kind to George W. Bush.

I think President Obama has been an extraordinarily successful president, and that this period will record that with a bunch of exclamation points. But obviously, not everybody thinks that.

The way you judge presidents is the way you judge plumbing fixtures. It doesn't matter whether plumbing fixtures are orchid or white. What really matters about a plumbing fixture is—does it flush?