We're committed to working with Congress to doing what the president said he was always going to do, which is cut the deficit in half over the - over his first term.
In my opinion eight years as president is enough and sometimes too much for any man to serve in that capacity.
If I hadn't been President of the United States, I probably would have ended up a piano player in a bawdy house.
I'm not going to give President Bush any advice. He knows. He knows what I think.
How many McDonald's gift certificates would it take to sway a lot of Americans to pledge to never publicly criticize the U.S, President?
I can die a happy man never having been president of the United States of America. But it doesn't mean I won't run.
You're president, if you conclude my judgment is not the right judgment, I abide by that, but I want an opportunity to have an input.
The president's priority is to protect the safety and security of the American people. That's the physical security of the American people as well as the prosperity of the American people.
I have walked into the palaces of kings and queens and into the houses of presidents. And much more. But I could not walk into a hotel in America and get a cup of coffee, and that made me mad.
Bill Clinton told me that when he was 14, he shook John Kennedy's hand, and that inspired him to be president.
Make decisions about the President's personal security. He can overrule you, but don't ask him to be the one to counsel caution.
See that the President, the Cabinet and staff are informed. If cut out of the information flow, their decisions may be poor, not made, or not confidently or persuasively implemented.
Many voted in 2008 with the desire to see racism and racists humiliated by having a qualified black man elected president.
President Bush was disgusted by the Assad regime's oppression of the Syrian people as well as its support for terrorism, interference in Lebanon, and encouragement of jihadist attacks on Americans in Iraq.
Certainly there are worse sins than doing everything possible to make your presidency matter.
I think anybody who wants to be president has to be a politician, but I would like to find somebody who's coming from a loving place instead of a political place.
So the American government lied to the Native Americans for many, many years, and then President Clinton lied about a relationship, and everyone was surprised! A little naïve, I feel!
That's the premise of the Saudi Arabians. He's holding the president's hand with one. In the other hand, he's got his hand in the pocket of American consumers.
So that was Reagan's political problem. As a rancher in California, he was an environmentalist himself. But the President of the United States doesn't control everything that happens in Washington.
I consider it part of my responsibility as President of the United States to fight against negative stereotypes of Islam wherever they appear.
Since I'm the president and Democrats have controlled the House and the Senate, it's understandable that people are saying, you know, 'What have you done?'
