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Presidents Say The Darndest Things

Below is a collection of some of my favourite quotes from various Presidents (and others included for filler.) I hope that some of these will amuse you. If you can think of any that belong on this list (and I especially mean you direcorrector), please tell us some of them in a comment.



1. "I may be President of the United States, but my personal life is nobody's damned business." -Chester Alan Arthur

2. "I have no trouble with my enemies. I can take care of my enemies in a fight. But my friends, my god-damned friends, they're the ones who keep me walking the floor at nights." - Warren G. Harding

3. "If you are as happy in entering the White House as I shall feel on returning to Wheatland, you are a happy man indeed." - James Buchanan

4. "I am not worried about the deficit. It is big enough to take care of itself." — Ronald Reagan

5. "After the White House what is there to do but drink?" - Franklin Pierce

6. "I've looked on many women with lust. I've committed adultery in my heart many times. God knows I will do this and forgives me." — Jimmy Carter, in a 1976 interview with Playboy Magazine

7. "When the President does it, that means it's not illegal." — Richard Nixon, in a 1977 interview with David Frost

8. "People have got to know whether or not their President is a crook. Well, I'm not a crook. I've earned everything I've got." — Richard Nixon at a November 17, 1973 news conference

9. "When they call the roll in the Senate, the Senators do not know whether to answer 'present' or 'not guilty.'" — Theodore Roosevelt

10. "He can compress the most words into the smallest ideas better than any man I ever met." — Abraham Lincoln, referring to a fellow lawyer

11. "If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read: 'President Can't Swim.'" — Lyndon Johnson

12. "Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt." — Abraham Lincoln

13. "In my many years I have come to a conclusion that one useless man is a shame, two is a law firm, and three or more is a congress." — John Adams

14. "My esteem in this country has gone up substantially. It is very nice now when people wave at me, they use all their fingers." — Jimmy Carter

15. "What makes him think a middle-aged actor, who's played with a chimp, could have a future in politics? — Ronald Reagan, on Clint Eastwood's bid to become mayor of Carmel

16. "Thomas Jefferson once said, 'We should never judge a president by his age, only by his works.' And ever since he told me that, I stopped worrying." — Ronald Reagan

17. "It was absolutely involuntary. They sank my boat." — John Kennedy, answering a little boy on how he became a war hero

18. "Too many good docs are getting out of the business. Too many OB-GYNs aren't able to practice their love with women all across this country." — George W. Bush

19. "There a few things in life harder to find and more important to keep than love. Well, love and a birth certificate." — Barack Obama

20. "I have left orders to be awakened at any time in case of national emergency -- even if I'm in a Cabinet meeting." — Ronald Reagan

21. "Being president is like running a cemetery: you've got a lot of people under you and nobody's listening." — Bill Clinton

22. "If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?" — Abraham Lincoln

23. "Never kick a fresh turd on a hot day." - Harry S Truman

24. "You lose." - Calvin Coolidge, in response to a woman who said that she had made a bet that she could get Coolidge to say more than two words.



25. “I know only two tunes: One of them is 'Yankee Doodle' and the other isn't.” - Ulysses S. Grant

26. "It's a good thing I am not a woman. I would always be pregnant. I can't say no." - Warren Harding
Tags: abraham lincoln, barack obama, bill clinton, calvin coolidge, chester alan arthur, franklin delano roosevelt, franklin pierce, george w. bush, harry s. truman, james buchanan, jimmy carter, john adams, john f. kennedy, lyndon johnson, richard nixon, ronald reagan, theodore roosevelt, ulysses s. grant, warren harding
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