My obligation as president, and what I promise the country, is that the courts will be able to do their job free of all pressure.
The President seems to extend executive privilege way out past the atmosphere. What he says is executive privilege is nothing but executive poppycock.
People are not going to reelect Barack Obama. But will the new president govern as a real conservative? We're going to have to apply the heat to make sure.
No child should be left behind - I've heard this from President Obama. And here, we say in Latin America, no country should be left behind.
If the president is allowed to suspend constitutional rights on his own personal whims, our free republic has effectively ceased to exist.
The birthers, the fanatics, the people running around in right-wing militia and Aryan support groups, it is unbearable to them that President Barack Obama should exist.
If you look at that 2008 Democratic primary, there was no more formidable, unstoppable candidate - other than an incumbent President - in modern times than Hillary Clinton.
What President Bush has done speaks more than words about his feeling of compassion and commitment to people.
President Bush has said that the economy is growing, that there are jobs out there. But you know, it's a long commute to China to get those jobs.
I've been amazed at the degree to which Democrats, in particular, have expressed their enthusiasm for the president's manner with which he handled this budget.
There's several different forms of executive privilege. The one that is most absolute would be close advisers talking to the president himself.
Once there were two brothers: one ran away to sea, the other was elected Vice-President-and nothing was ever heard from either of them again.
One thing without any question that is true today and that is that the winner of the 28-minute commercial is President Barack Obama.
Certainly I had my preference, and I very much hoped that George W. Bush would be our next president.
The job of mayor and Governor is becoming more and more like the job of university president, which I used to be; it looks like you are in charge, but you are not.
I think, I think we need a Republican president from the real world to remind ourselves sometimes of what we need to do.
Eighty percent of the problems that beset unification immediately disappeared when the President signed the bill increasing the authority and the responsibility of the Secretary of Defense.
The presidency has made every man who occupied it, no matter how small, bigger than he was; and no matter how big, not big enough for its demands.
When the burdens of the presidency seem unusually heavy, I always remind myself it could be worse. I could be a mayor.
I once told Nixon that the Presidency is like being a jackass caught in a hail storm. You've got to just stand there and take it.
I've noticed that in the U.S., when the president hits the three-year mark in office, he goes into re-election campaigning.
