You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I don't believe in little plans. I believe in plans big enough to meet a situation which we can't possibly foresee now.
In my opinion eight years as president is enough and sometimes too much for any man to serve in that capacity.
Whenever a fellow tells me he's bipartisan, I know he's going to vote against me.
If I hadn't been President of the United States, I probably would have ended up a piano player in a bawdy house.
Always be sincere, even if you don't mean it.
A president either is constantly on top of events or, if he hesitates, events will soon be on top of him. I never felt that I could let up for a moment.
If I'd known how much packing I'd have to do, I'd have run again.
Whenever you put a man on the Supreme Court he ceases to be your friend.
The President is always abused. If he isn't, he isn't doing anything.
I have no desire to crow over anybody or to see anybody eating crow, figuratively or otherwise. We should all get together and make a country in which everybody can eat turkey whenever he pleases.
It sure is hell to be president.
Most of the problems a President has to face have their roots in the past.
When you get to be President, there are all those things, the honors, the twenty-one gun salutes, all those things. You have to remember it isn't for you. It's for the Presidency.
Brave men don't belong to any one country. I respect bravery wherever I see it.
Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of opposition, it has only one way to go, and that is down the path of increasingly repressive measures, until it becomes a source of terror to all its citizens and creates a coun...
Fame is a vapor, popularity is an accident, riches take wings, those who cheer today may curse tomorrow and only one thing endures - character.
Politics should make a thief, a roué, and a pessimist of anyone but I don't believe I am any of them...
Once a decision was made, I didn't worry about it afterward...
[The American President] has to take all sorts of abuse from liars and demagogues.… The people can never understand why the President does not use his supposedly great power to make ’em behave. Well, all the President is, is a glorified public re...
It’s a recession when your neighbor loses his job; it’s a depression when you lose your own.
You want a friend in this city? [Washington, DC.] Get a dog!
