Quotes about Presidents
One of the embarrassing problems for the early nineteenth-century champions of the Christian faith was that not one of the first six Presidents of the United States was an orthodox Christian.
— Mortimer Adler
There are only two occasions when Americans respect privacy, especially in Presidents. Those are prayer and fishing.
— Herbert Hoover
Her husband stops by on his way to the cashier and suggests I see the huge statue of Crazy Horse that's being dynamited out of the Black Hills. "Crazy Horse riding his pony," he says, "is going to make all those Indian-killing presidents on Mount Rushmore look like nothing.
— Gloria Steinem
Of all races and eras these States with veins full of poetical stuff most need poets, and are to have the greatest, and use them the greatest, Their Presidents shall not be their common referee so much as their poets shall.
— Walt Whitman
I've worked for four presidents and watched two others up close, and I know that there's no such thing as a routine day in the Oval Office.
— Dick Cheney
This is what Jesus had in mind: folks coming together, forming close-knit communities and meeting each other's needs-- no kings, no major welfare systems, no presidents necessary. His is a theology and practice for the people of God, not a set of suggestions for empire.
— Shane Claiborne
While they came from a variety of religious backgrounds and held a wide variety of religious beliefs, each of our presidents in his own way has placed a special trust in God.
— John F. Kennedy
Different presidents have different strengths, they bring different life experiences.
— Hillary Clinton
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.
— Billy Graham
Folks, I can tell you I've known eight presidents, three of them intimately.
— Joe Biden
Some of the presidents were great and some of them weren't. I can say that, because I wasn't one of the great presidents, but I had a good time trying to be one, I can tell you that.
— Harry S. Truman
Presidents have only two moments of personal seclusion. One is prayer; the other fishing - and they cannot pray all the time!
— Herbert Hoover