Obama Announcement

We need a great president. - Donald Trump

Oh, that lovely title, ex-president. - Dwight D Eisenhower

Crime does not pay as well as politics. - Alfred E. Newman

In politics an absurdity is not a handicap. - Napoleon Bonaparte

Obama does not like the issue of where he was born. - Donald Trump

The art of government is the organization of idolatry. - George Bernard Shaw

The presidency is temporary, but the family is permanent. - Yvonne de Gaulle

Poetry is about the grief. Politics is about the grievance. - Robert Frost

In my country we go to prison first and then become president. - Nelson Mandela

An honest man in politics shines more than he would elsewhere. - Mark Twain

World War II was the last government program that really worked. - George Will

When the President does it, that means that it's not illegal. - Richard M Nixon

The most important political office is that of the private citizen. - Louis D. Brandeis

Every man who wants to be President is either an egomaniac or crazy. - Dwight D Eisenhower

Government can't give us anything without depriving us of something else. - Henry Hazlitt

American Politics: A form of socialism for the rich, including the politicians. - Gregory Nunn

I wouldn't run for President. I wouldn't want to move to a smaller house. - Bono

Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power. - Aldous Huxley

The reason I'm running for President is because I can't be Bruce Springsteen. - Barack Obama

I love Canada. I am from Canada. I will bash the Canadian government but never Canada. - Jason Priestley

I may not have been the greatest president, but I've had the most fun eight years. - Bill Clinton

The election is not very far off when a candidate can recognize you across the street. - Kin Hubbard

In America the President reigns for four years and journalism governs forever and ever. - Oscar Wilde

Of all the tasks of government, the most basic is to protect its citizens from violence. - John Foster Dulles

Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few. - George Bernard Shaw

Patriotism is supporting your country all the time and your government when it deserves it. - Mark Twain

Ronald Reagan knew who he was. Barack Obama is still working through that equation politically. - Joe Scarborough

A government big enough to give you everything you want, is strong enough to take everything you have. - Thomas Jefferson

Politics, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or wrong. - Richard Armour

Folks who don't know why America is the Land of Promise should be here during an election campaign. - Milton Berle

One of the key problems today is that politics is such a disgrace, good people don't go into government. - Donald Trump

Politics: Poli, a Latin word meaning "many"; and tics, meaning "bloodsucking creatures." - Robin Williams

To be President of the United States, sir, is to act as advocate for a blind, venomous, and ungrateful client. - John Updike

Idealism is like a castle in the air if it is not based on a solid foundation of social and political realism. - Claude McKay

The hardest thing about any political campaign is how to win without proving that you are unworthy of winning. - Theodor Adorno

Harold MacMillan is a very intelligent man, who, as so often happens in politics, achieved supreme power too late. - Malcolm Muggeridge

There are advantages to being President. The day after I was elected, I had my high school grades classified Top Secret. - Ronald Reagan

One lesson you better learn if you want to be in politics is that you never go out on a golf course and beat the President. - Lyndon B. Johnson

If you make any money, the government shoves you in the creek once a year with it in your pockets, and all that don't get wet you can keep. - Will Rogers

I have respect for Senator McCain. I used to like him a lot. I supported him. I raised a lot of money for his campaign against President Obama. - Donald Trump