Presidential Priorities Quotes

I'd rather be pro-life than President.

The more the President cares about things, the more the other people in the government will attend to them.

Of course I don't know what's going on in that meeting on in the mind of Donald Trump. But I do know one of the things President Barack Obama was struck by was how much time he spent on cyber-security as president. And one of the things he said was that, in the years ahead, the next president will be spending even more time. And cyber-security isn't a thing that goes away after this election. It's a constant flow.

The problem with State of the Union speeches is that they are, by their nature and design, alphabet soup. It's hard to know what a president really cares about when they run down a laundry list and check every issue box under the sun for fear they will offend some constituency if they don't.

Laura Bush is the same way. I mean, they both, um, understand, they understand the challenges of the moment and understand the responsibilities, he understands the responsibilities he has to protect the national security of America as well as the economic security of America.

Every president inherits a mixed bag when he comes to office, and Obama's was hardly the worst.

We need a president who realizes that there's no government business in show business.

The healthy presidency is one that never lets the press hustle the President's priorities.

As I travel around the country, the American people are focused on the very same things that President Trump is focused on every day. And that is: How do we advance our national security? How do we make the world a safer and more peaceful place? How do we make America more prosperous? And the president's gonna continue to focus.

We need to work as hard as President Trump is working.

I don't need a president with a bucket list!

In the White House there is nothing more valuable than the President’s time.

Republicans in Congress are getting concerned that President Obama will try to use the final year of his term to push through too many controversial laws. Obama would've responded but he was busy drafting his new 'mandatory Mexican gay weed' bill.

You would have thought that after 9/11 the president would have finished the job in Afghanistan, and kept the focus on capturing Bin Laden and his al-Qaeda deputies, but he and his team gave top priority to their original plan to invade Iraq.

George W. Bush has two policy meetings a week. Bill Clinton used to do that every day before breakfast.

Every damn President since I can remember has been so in love with foreign policy that they're just like a schoolboy with a new girl.

I cannot think of a president or administration that has taken seriously the 100 days.

The President has time to go to a rodeo but hasn’t got time to testify before the Presidential commission [investigating September 11.]

I think that Donald Trump is coming to this office with fewer set hard-and-fast policy prescriptions than a lot of other presidents might be arriving with.

I was honored to spend time with the President on an issue that is clearly important to him. I was also impressed by his wide receiver skills.

The book shows Clinton in the presidency as a profile in growth.

Based on history, many presidents come into office with lots of plans, and an agenda and things they want to start and an order in which they want to do those things.

Ms. Rice was a bad national security adviser and a bad secretary of state. She was on the wrong side of some of the administration's biggest internal policy fights. She had a tendency to flip-flop when it came to the president's core priorities, and her political misjudgment more than once cost Mr. Bush dearly.

When you look at that key question what is President-elect [Donald] Trump going to do, it's hard to glean that from his campaign. The kind of - the promise is vague and sweeping, but vague in places. Also contradictory at times.

I don’t care a damn about stocks and bonds, but I don’t want to see them go down the first day I am President.