Famous Presidential Quotes And Sayings Quiz

Answer: George Herbert Walker Bush (1989-1993)

A superb witticism by George Bush was his attack on his successor: " When Bill Clinton blows his taxophone, America will be singing the blues. "
Another surprising remark came from Andrew Jackson's , the 7th President of the U.S.A.: "It's a damn poor mind that can only think of one way to spell a word."

Answer: William (Bill) Jefferson Clinton (1993-2001)

Another, less 'suspect' Clinton quote: " There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured with what is right in America".
May-be John F. Kennedy was foreseeing some of his successors in a later age already when he said: " Mothers all want their sons to grow up to be President, but they don't want them to become politicians in the process."

Answer: John Fitzgerald Kennedy (1961-1963)

January 20, 1961. No denying there is a familiar Winston Churchill ring in that quote. Also by Kennedy is this one: "Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.'(Inaugural Speech 20 January 1961).And " Mankind must put an end to war or war will put an end to mankind. "
Being of Irish descent J.F.K. certainly had the gift of the gab.

Answer: Grover Cleveland (1893-1897)

Well some politicians have remarkable opinions about governments. Did not Thomas Jefferson say: "That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves. "
But after all even a Democrat as Truman realized that "Whenever you have an efficient government, you have a dictatorship."

Answer: Harry S.Truman (1945-1953)

In "New York World Telegram & Sun", 12 April 1958. Another famous Truman quote is: "Wherever you have an efficient government, you have a dictatorship."
Georges Pompidou (1911-1974) had something similar to say about statesmen and politicians in the Observer of 30 Dec. 1973.
"A statesman is a politician who places himself at the service of the nation. A politician is a statesman who places the nation at his services.' Which shows where some of the French wits get their inspiration.

Answer: Richard Milhous Nixon (1969-1974)

Presidents are lucky of course when time and again they can share in a good news show for the country . On 3 Sept. 1939 Franklin D. Roosevelt had less pleasant news to comment when Hitler invaded Poland. His tone was also a little more lofty: "When peace has been broken anywhere, the peace of all countries everywhere is in danger." Sometimes declaring war can be good news however , as when Lyndon B. Johnson in a State of the Union Address said: "This administration today, here and now, declares unconditional war on poverty in America."

Answer: Ronald Wilson Reagan (1981-1989)

11 August 1984.
Fortunately Gorby took it all in good spirit and followed up the hint
by dismantling not only the firing-power of the Red Army, but the whole Soviet Union as well.

Answer: George Washington (1789-1797)

The rhetoric of the President-worshipping always requires some degree of idealisation. Theodore Roosevelt would probably not have agreed with the sixties' protest singers belittling the slightly hagiographic presentation of George Washington's youth. Didn't he warn that "The men with the muck-rakes are often indispensable to the well-being of society , but only if they know when to stop raking the muck. "

Answer: Abraham Lincoln (1861-1865)

Dates back to 1856. Another famous "Lincoln-quote": "No man is good enough to govern another man without that other man's consent." (May, 1856). Attributed to him is: "You can fool some of the people all the time and all of the people some of the time; but you can't fool all the people all the time."

Answer: Dwight David Eisenhower (1953-1961)

Not bad as a pacifist statement from an ex-military. Ike was also the man who first publicly referrred to the "falling domino theory". Another bright idea about war was expressed by Herbert Clark Hoover: " Older men declare war. But it is youth that must fight and die."