# Favorite presidential quotes **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 8, 2000, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-presidential-quotes/18941 "2000-05-08T18:44:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![aha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/eada6e/32.png) [@aha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aha)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2000, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-presidential-quotes/18941/1 "2000-05-08T18:44:49Z")
Did a search found nothing. Here’s mine, (you have to stick your index finger out in a pointing fashion to say this) I did not have sex with that woman. Bill Clinton ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Cynical](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ee59a6/32.png) [@Mr.Cynical](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Cynical)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2000, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-presidential-quotes/18941/2 "2000-05-08T18:52:10Z")
But, J. Danforth Quayle is the best source for amusing quotations that I’ve ever seen. Witness this, [Former USA VP Dan Quayle Quotes](http://www.xmission.com/~mwalker/DQ/) ---
**Author:** ![MysterEcks](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f475e1/32.png) [@MysterEcks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MysterEcks)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2000, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-presidential-quotes/18941/3 "2000-05-08T19:06:23Z")
“The history of liberty is a history of limitations of governmental power, not the increase of it.” (Woodrow Wilson, 1912) ---
**Author:** ![Gilligan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e0b2c6/32.png) [@Gilligan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gilligan)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2000, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-presidential-quotes/18941/4 "2000-05-08T19:28:40Z")
“I’ve just signed legislation that outlaws Russia forever. We begin bombing in five minutes.” – Ronald Reagan ---
**Author:** ![Spoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2000, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-presidential-quotes/18941/5 "2000-05-08T19:44:36Z")
Harry Truman to Douglas MacArthur: “You’re fired.” 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![ChiefScott](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/58f4c7/32.png) [@ChiefScott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ChiefScott)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2000, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-presidential-quotes/18941/6 "2000-05-08T19:56:34Z")
“Any person who may be asked … What they did to make their life worthwhile … Can respond with pride and satisfaction … I served in the United States Navy.” – John F. Kennedy, 1963 Naval Academy Graduation Address ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2000, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-presidential-quotes/18941/7 "2000-05-08T20:11:43Z")
“If that is the case, then I fear that General Pinckney has kept the four for himself, and cheated me out of my two.” – **John Adams,** upon hearing the Republican charge that Pinckney had dispatched a United States frigate to England to bring back four attractive girls, which he and the President would share as mistresses. ---
**Author:** ![Barabbas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c37758/32.png) [@Barabbas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Barabbas)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2000, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-presidential-quotes/18941/8 "2000-05-08T20:19:09Z")
“If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?” - **Abraham Lincoln** ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2000, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-presidential-quotes/18941/9 "2000-05-08T20:22:31Z")
The facts are stupid things. Bush or Regan? ---
**Author:** ![egkelly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/db5fbb/32.png) [@egkelly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/egkelly)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2000, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-presidential-quotes/18941/10 "2000-05-08T20:31:13Z")
Sorry, what Clinto said was: …" I did not have sex with that woman, Miss Lewinsky…" and three weeks later: “…I did have a sexual relationship…” and later (in the same speech): “… even Presidents have private lives…” All this from the guy who promised he would never lie to the American people!! ---
**Author:** ![Barabbas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c37758/32.png) [@Barabbas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Barabbas)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2000, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-presidential-quotes/18941/11 "2000-05-08T20:31:51Z")
> [@](#): > > \*\* > The facts are stupid things. > Bush or Regan? > \*\* Reagan. ---
**Author:** ![panamajack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/47e85d/32.png) [@panamajack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panamajack)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2000, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-presidential-quotes/18941/12 "2000-05-08T20:51:18Z")
My favorite - from ol’ silent Cal : > [@](#): > > Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. - Calvin coolidge panama jack * * * No one ever listened themselves out of a job. ---
**Author:** ![Nacho4Sara](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Nacho4Sara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nacho4Sara)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2000, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-presidential-quotes/18941/13 "2000-05-08T21:11:08Z")
He’s not president yet, thank God, but here is the funniest quote from Shrub: “This is Preservation Month. I appreciate preservation. It’s what you do when you run for president. You gotta preserve.”—Speaking during “Perseverance Month” at Fairgrounds Elementary School in Nashua, N.H. As quoted in the Los Angeles Times, Jan. 28, 2000. Great example for the kids, right? Goodness gracious! That man makes me laugh, the same way Perot did…between fits of vomiting. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Silo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ac91a4/32.png) [@Silo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silo)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2000, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-presidential-quotes/18941/14 "2000-05-08T21:45:19Z")
> [@](#): > > Slight Correction to the OP > Sorry, what Clinton said was: > …" I did not have sex with that woman, Miss Lewinsky…" I don’t think it’s that either. I recall Clinton saying, “I did not have sexual relations with that women, Miss Lewinsky.” ---
**Author:** ![Ayesha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c0e974/32.png) [@Ayesha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ayesha)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2000, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-presidential-quotes/18941/15 "2000-05-08T22:41:16Z")
I still like _Tricky Dicky’s_ “I am not a crook” ---
**Author:** ![neuro-trash\_grrrl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/3ab097/32.png) [@neuro-trash\_grrrl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/neuro-trash_grrrl)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2000, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-presidential-quotes/18941/16 "2000-05-09T03:01:02Z")
“You lose.” - Calvin Coolidge, when a woman asked him to say something, because she bet a friend that she could get more than two words out of him.