Presidential Frustration Quotes

Because he drives Lyndon Johnson crazy

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

I'll be damned if I am not getting tired of this. It seems to be the profession of a President simply to hear other people talk.

Every president I worked for, at some point in his presidency, would get so pissed off at the Israelis that he couldn’t speak.

We have seen presidents from both parties express their frustrations with the press. That's absolutely normal.

Like their predecessors, the Presidents of today just throw up their hands.

No one felt it more than the President. I saw him repeatedly, and he fairly groaned at the inexplicable delay in the advent of help from the loyal States.

The Congress has sometimes been a sore trial to Presidents.

The White House has something in common with the rest of America, and that is disdain for Congress. It is hard to blame them.

How frustrating would it be if you're the president of the United States, and every single time you turn on the TV on most of the channels, they're misconstruing what you say?

All presidents get frustrated with Congress.

Every President I think I've ever known, except Truman, has thought they didn't quite get done what they wanted done. And toward the end of their Administrations, they were disappointed and wished they had done some things differently.

Never has any one office had so much power as the President of the United States possesses. Never has so powerful a leader been so impotent to do what he wants to do, what he is pledged to do and what he knows he must do.

I think that where I've gotten frustrated during the course of my presidency has never been because I was getting pushed too hard by activists to see the justness of a cause or the essence of an issue.

I did attempt to find out if there were any secret government documents that revealed things. If there were, they were concealed from me too. And if there were, well I wouldn't be the first American president that underlings have lied to, or that career bureaucrats have waited out. But there may be some career person sitting around somewhere, hiding these dark secrets, even from elected presidents. But if so, they successfully eluded me...and I'm almost embarrassed to tell you I did (chuckling) try to find out.