Famous Quotes & Sayings

Franklin D. Roosevelt

We can afford all that we need; but we can not afford all [that] we want.

Jimmy Carter

I remember the last three days that I was president, I never went to bed at all. I never went to bed until we had negotiated the final release of the hostages.

Jimmy Carter

Well, you know, I had been a peanut farmer. I had - you know who was the first president - Democratic president I ever met? Bill Clinton.

Jimmy Carter

I feel that my role as a former president is probably superior to that of other presidents. Primarily because of the activism and the injection of working at the Carter Center, and in international affairs, and to some degree, domestic affairs, on energy conservation, on environment, and things of that kind.

Jimmy Carter

I can't deny I'm a better ex-president than I was a president.

Jimmy Carter

I can get up at 8am and be rested... or I can get up at 5am and be President.

James Surowiecki

Of course, presidents are always blamed or rewarded for the state of the economy.

Emeril Lagasse

I'm not impressed with presidents. I have met a few, but I'm not impressed with them.

M. Wolfe

All of the sudden, the president now has two openings. That's not unique, but it's rare,

Joseph Sobran

The most fundamental purpose of government is defense, not empire.