Presidential Politics Quotes

If I am nominated [for the presidency], I will not run. If I am elected, I will not serve. But if you beg me, I just might reconsider.

I've been intrigued by politics my whole life. And, yes, I am very close to the Clintons. I was a Hillary person until I was an Obama person. And she was a Hillary person, too, until she was an Obama one, evidently.

It’s like a presidential press conference. Information goes in and information goes out, but there is not necessarily a connection between the two.

I know the women in the Trump Corporation, have gotten to know them very well recently. Obviously, let the record reflect it was Donald J. Trump who elevated the first female in Republican presidential politics to that role, and then albeit successfully, owing in large part, if not most part, to him, and the campaign that he stewarded.

The Bush campaign for re-election has officially begun. They're actually running television commercials. Have you seen any of the television commercials? In one of the commercials, you see George Bush for thirty seconds. In another commercial, you get to see George Bush for sixty seconds - kind of like his stint in the National Guard.

A coalition of groups is waging a massive propaganda campaign against the president of the United States. an all-out attack. Their aim is total victory for themselves and total defeat for him.

I know Obama knows better than George W. Bush.

Presidential politics is not like a golf tournament. There’s no prize for second place.

President-elect Donald Trump is not happy that he lost the popular vote. And this stat is probably not going to make him feel any better.

Richard Nixon ran on a promise that he had a secret plan for peace (in Vietnam). He kept his promise and kept it a secret.

Although I wasn't invited to shake hands with Hitler, I wasn't invited to the White House to shake hands with the President either.

American presidential elections usually amount to a series of overcorrections: Clinton begat Bush, who produced Obama, whose lax border policies fueled the rise of Trump.

Re-election campaigns of sitting presidents are always about the sitting president.

There are a lot of misconceptions regarding the Bush tax cuts, all of them deliberately propagated by none other than President Obama and his pals. The biggest lie of them all is that these tax cuts will only affect the wealthiest two percent.

Previous presidents, including great ones like Roosevelt, have used the IRS against their enemies. But I don't think Barack Obama ever wanted to be on the same page as Richard Nixon.

Barack Obama now says he is open to offshore oil drilling. So, apparently, when he promised change, he was talking about his mind.

Despite an unqualified understanding that U.S. national security was inextricably bound up with Britain's survival, F.D.R. knew that his reelection in part rested on the hope that he would keep the country out of war.

As Mike Tyson says, everybody has a plan until they get hit in the mouth. The one thing we know about American presidential politics is you're going to get hit in the mouth.

Enough! Donald Trump should not be President. He should withdraw.

A skillful playwright might have a good time with the story of the assassination of President William McKinley, and especially with the three most flamboyant political figures involved: Mark Hanna, Theodore Roosevelt, and Emma Goldman.

President Ford was taken for a ride by his predecessor, whom he unpardonably pardoned; Jimmy Carter was also taken for a ride, but by his successor, Ronald Reagan, over the return of the Iran hostages.

Yesterday during a speech on national security, Jeb Bush mispronounced Boko Haram and got confused between Iran and Iraq. When reached for comment, his brother George W. said, 'He sure sounds presidentiary to me.'

He [previous President Uribe] has criticized this government for unveiling a lot of corruption: he thinks it is an attack on his government. But I have said no, it is not an attack on his government, it is an attack on the corrupt people, and I will continue to do that.

The fact is, presidential politics has become a game of inches.

Hillary [Clinton] was selected by only 8 percent of the population. [Donald] Trump, by only 7 percent