We need an attorney general for the people, not a presidential protector and puppet of the administration.

Republicans are having trouble luring Gov. Chris Christie into the presidential race. They should try pie.

We've got 50 percent voter turnout for presidential elections. That's appalling. We can do so much better.

Every dollar released from taxation that is spared or invested will help create a new job and a new salary.

Our most dangerous tendency is to expect too much of government, and at the same time do for it too little.

I may be the only person, the only presidential candidate who never carried the state in which he was born.

You are a den of vipers and thieves. I intend to rout you out, and by the eternal God, I will rout you out.

There is no more dangerous thing for a democracy than a foreign policy based on presidential preventive war.

For presidential power to meaningfully expand, it is not enough for a president to simply make a power grab.

When they call the roll in the Senate, the Senators do not know whether to answer 'Present' or 'Not guilty.'

We have a presidential election coming up. And I think the big problem, of course, is that someone will win.

In 2000, Trump could have won the Reform Party nomination. I chaired his presidential exploratory committee.

Hurricane Sandy interrupted Mr. Romney’s momentum and allowed Mr. Obama to look presidential and bipartisan.

If the rabble were lopped off at one end and the aristocrat at the other, all would be well with the country.

Congress has not unlimited powers to provide for the general welfare, but only those specifically enumerated.

Even at the end of a presidential election campaign, we have no way to know what Mitt Romney really believes.

Donald Trump is a candidate who divided his own party more deeply than any presidential candidate has before.

I will not be collateral damage in a presidential campaign, nor will I be a woman bullied by Hillary Clinton.

America's present need is not heroics but healing; not nostrums but normalcy; not revolution but restoration.

As a presidential candidate, Mr. Trump is going to get tough questions from the press and has to answer them.

I regret that a private comment I made to the vice presidential candidate made it through the public airways.

I like the job I have, but if I had to live my life over again, I would like to have ended up a sports writer.

Truly, if you can't cover a five-car pile-up on Route 128, you should not be covering a presidential campaign.

Sooner or later, I need to begin to do what any candidate does in a presidential race; I need to begin to win.

In Belarus, the government is a kind of presidential monarchy with no checks, no balances, and no rule of law.

Defeat doesn't finish a man, quit does. A man is not finished when he's defeated. He's finished when he quits.

Republican candidates have won whites with college degrees in every presidential election since polling began.

Presidential election results in 2008 and 2012 clarified that talk radio was not, in fact, running the country.

Presidential aspirants reach for the highest office to satisfy some yearning for greatness or even immortality.

I don't know whether it's the finest public housing in America or the crown jewel of the American penal system.

The problem to be solved is, not what form of government is perfect, but which of the forms is least imperfect.

I had supported Governor George W. Bush over Senator John McCain in the 2000 Rhode Island presidential primary.

Somebody has inquired as to whether I will be going to the opening baseball game. I hope to have that pleasure.

Reading a teleprompter is not what makes you presidential. It's your actions that you take, and it's democracy.

A lot of presidential memoirs, they say, are dull and self-serving. I hope mine is interesting and self-serving.

A presidential debate is a job interview. And voters look for certain traits in people applying to be president.

Everybody loved me running for president in '91 and '92 because they never knew a presidential candidate before.

The first presidential debate was down in Florida. Residents spent all day putting plywood on their televisions.

I love presidential campaigns. It is a time when people are feeling what is going on in the heart of our country.

The Federal Budget can and should be made an instrument of prosperity and stability, not a deterrent to recovery.

I see all four presidential candidates, the leading four, Cruz and Trump and Sanders and Clinton, all oppose TPP.

The lack of power to take joy in outdoor nature is as real a misfortune as the lack of power to take joy in books

An honest public servant can't become rich in politics. He can only attain greatness and satisfaction by service.

Stubbornness is a positive quality of presidential leadership - if you're right about what you're stubborn about.

Education never quite gets the attention it deserves in presidential campaigns, but monster flip-flops surely do.

The study of this Book in your Bible classes is a post-graduate course in the richest library of human experience.

I was very proud to support Obama's presidential campaign, from the primaries all the way to his historic victory.

I do not subscribe to the school of thought that I am leading the presidential polls because of my beautiful legs.

The storm of frenzy and faction must inevitably dash itself in vain against the unshaken rock of the Constitution.

In my lifetime, we have lost a President, a Civil Rights leader and a Presidential candidate - all to gun violence.

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