Chris Matthews President Quotations

I don't know why his lawyers didn't tell him, 'You don't have to answer any questions about your private life, Mr. President. Let them sue you. Take the heat. You don't have to answer.'

Someone needs to talk sense to the president. But these people are not world travelers. This president, much as I like him, had all the opportunities in the world.

This is a fundamental question, Mr. Mayor [ Rudy Giuliani ]. Is the president of the United States legitimate or not? Do you believe it? If you believe it, why doesn't your candidate state it.

There is absolutely no record ever of Hillary Clinton or anyone in her campaign ever saying that President [Barack] Obama is not legitimate.

I'm trying to put the ridiculousness to bed. The president of the United States is the president of the United States.

We are trying to pick the next president, not review the birth of the current president.

Presidents aren`t supposed to spit, at least not obviously.

President [Barack]Obama benefits from the shared experience and wisdom of top national security and foreign policy advisers, many of them career professionals.

The President [Barack Obama] said if we get out of this business of trade expansion, we turn it over to the Chinese. This brings us into partnership with 11 other Pacific Rim countries.

I think in places like Pennsylvania, there`s folks who want our next president to talk like a hawk, but fly like a dove.

The president of the United States, whoever it is, deserves a certain level of reverence and respect just because of the office he holds.

Natural-born American means you don`t have to be naturalized. You were born to an American mother, like President Obama, no matter where you were born.

I have never heard a president in bad times running against ,let`s face it, that`s what he`s doing here running against bad times, when he`s the presiding officer.

I`ve never heard anybody [of president's candidates] talk about the poorly educated.