Presidential Failure Quotes

President Lincoln is timid, vacillating, and inefficient.

Whether Barack Obama is simply incompetent as president or has some hidden agenda to undermine this country, at home and abroad, he has nearly everything he needs to ruin America, including a fool for a vice president

The President has once again failed us. Millions of Americans are at risk of going without the flu vaccine this year because the administration failed to act proactively to ensure an adequate supply. There is simply no excuse for this.

I am saddened, saddened that this President [George W. Bush] failed so miserably at diplomacy that were now forced to war.

I think I was identified as a failed president because I wasn't re-elected.

Herbert Hoover failed through no fault of his own. The Crash of 1929 and the Great Depression were beyond his control, and every remedy he tried failed adequately to work.

The failure of a President to provide information to Congress about impeachment inquiries is itself and impeachable offense.

The sign of a failing President is his complaining about the limitations of the office

Trump's presidency will fail. Just don't ask me how and when. It will collapse because at its center is a hollow man, lacking ballast, whose chaos cannot be contained.

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

Probably the smartest president we've had in terms of I.Q. in the last 50 years was Jimmy Carter, and I think he is the worst president of the last 50 years.

This president failed so miserably in diplomacy that we are now forced to war.

I feel the political failings of the U.S.A. are presidential in length, but the aspirant narrative of the States is millennial in length.

Lyndon Johnson, his 44-state landslide in 1964 and Great Society notwithstanding, was by 1968 a failed president being repudiated in the primaries of his own party.

Richard Nixon will always go down as a failure because of one stupid, moral - and that goes back to that last chapter, on principles.

There is parallels these two great men John McCain and Ted Kennedy of great impact in the Senate, you don't agree with everything they did but certainly they had major impacts as senators. Their one major political failure not to be elected president but that didn't stop them from having enormous impact and at roughly the same age, exactly the same disease. It's kind of a poignant sad parallel.

Herbert Hoover was a man of genuine, fine character, but he lacked practical political sense. And he couldn't bend and shift and change with the requirements of the time. And he was a ruined President, because he was such a, I think, stiff-backed ideologue. And I think that speaks volumes about his character.

Don't talk to me about what's happened since [Nelson] Mandela! His successor was absolutely hopeless - "no such thing as AIDS" - and this present President... It's a tragedy, you know, what's happened there post-Mandela, because he was an iconic figure.

I think one of the many interesting things about [Donald] Trump is that people in the media did not take him seriously for months. Then, when it was clear he was going to be the nominee, they immediately hit the panic button. I think they overlook the possibility that he could just be a really bad president in the way that presidents are traditionally bad.

This President is a miserable failure on foreign policy.

Obama isn't just too big to fail. He's too big to know. Obama is so vital to the country and to the world, he must be kept out of the loop in order to save him from his failed presidency.

Should Hillary Clinton run for president, voters who ignore the difference between the image she seeks to project and the reality will have only themselves to blame if her presidency turns into a disaster.

President Bush said this Iraq situation looks like 'the rerun of a bad movie.' Well sure, there's a Bush in the White House, the economy's going to hell, we're going to war over oil. I've seen this movie, haven't I?

As with almost every significant aspect of the Bush presidency, its handling of 9/11 was a catastrophe from start to finish.

Woodrow Wilson is an abject coward…. The worst President since Buchanan.