I consider a decent respect for Christianity among the best recommendations for public service.

There is nothing so deep and nothing so shallow which political enmity will not turn to account.

The typical presidential staff resents the vice-president even more than they do the first lady.

A pen is certainly an excellent instrument to fix a man's attention and to inflame his ambition.

I understand personally that it is frustrating to lose presidential elections by narrow margins.

Think about every problem, every challenge, we face. The solution to each starts with education.

It is weakness rather than wickedness which renders men unfit to be trusted with unlimited power.

Lincoln, steeped in the Bible and Shakespeare, set an impossibly high bar for presidential prose.

I can be the most presidential person ever, other than possibly the great Abe Lincoln, all right?

The ability to produce every necessity of life renders us independent in war as well as in peace.

It strikes me that presidential campaigns can often bring out the worst as well as the best in us.

The way we think about a presidential portrait is one that is imbued with dignity from the outset.

Competition is not only the basis of protection to the consumer, but is the incentive to progress.

The age of Lincoln and Jefferson memorials is over. It will be presidential libraries from now on.

We have no information that indicates that Ukraine interfered with the 2016 presidential election.

Declare church and state forever separate and distinct; but each free within their proper spheres.

I don't have any presidential aspirations. If the millennials want me to do it, I'd do it, though.

You won't have Nixon to kick around anymore, because, gentlemen, this is my last press conference.

He needs to get a hard slap of reality in the face every once in a while. He has an arrogant side.

I have always done my duty. I am ready to die. My only regret is for the friends I leave behind me.

It is still a fact that our common frontier grows stronger every year, defended only by friendship.

I am glad to see that a system of labor prevails under which laborers can strike when they want to.

My greatest trials come through those professing to be near and attached friends, who expect things.

U.S. nuclear weapons that are available for presidential use are targeted against broad ocean areas.

Governments don't control things. A government can't control the economy without controlling people.

I think that [James] Comey acted in an outrageous way during the [presidential ] campaign [in 2016].

Absolute freedom of the press to discuss public questions is a foundation stone of American liberty.

I understand personally, ... that it is frustrating to lose presidential elections by narrow margins.

To be considered presidential timber, there has to be a measure in the way you present your argument.

I am the first to admit that were I not a woman, I would not have been the vice-presidential nominee.

I will not seek, and I will not accept the nomination of my party for another term as your president.

We fed 'em Xmas and New Years; now all the poor have to do is just fill the few meals until next Xmas

A decent and manly examination of the acts of government should not only be tolerated, but encouraged.

When I hit the skins they all say, 'Damn Kane... You knock out the Bush like a presidential campaign!'

Because America is a democracy, public support for presidential foreign-policy decisions is essential.

Egypt has a presidential system. The president runs the state. Who the president is matters profoundly.

Today, the most important political instrument in the hands of the opposition is the presidential veto.

If government is to serve any purpose it is to do for others what they are unable to do for themselves.

The Commission on Presidential Debates must be replaced if we want to have a democracy in this country.

The number of American presidential candidates varies with the sunspot cycle and the phases of the moon.

I've been involved in five presidential campaigns, once as national campaign manager for Walter Mondale.

Perhaps one of the most important accomplishments of my administration has been minding my own business.

I want to help the 2016 Republican presidential nominee, whoever that is, get our country back on track.

I don't look presidential. I don't wear, you know, three-piece suits and have my hair perfectly coiffed.

Religious and racial persecution is moronic at all times, perhaps the most idiotic of human stupidities.

WikiLeaks is a service to the population. Assange should get an award for - presidential medal of honor.

I am busily engaged in the study of the Bible. I believe it is God's word because it finds me where I am.

Ambition is a commendable attribute, without which no man succeeds. Only inconsiderate ambition imperils.

No candidate can win a presidential race advocating gay marriage and opposing the military action in Iraq.

Despite the increasingly presidential style of political leadership in our country, teamwork is essential.

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