I think the president should be accessible, should answer questions that aren't pre-screened, but I think there should be a little bit of dignity to the presidency.
You know rule one for the vice president is make sure you never upstage the president, right? It's rule one.
As a president I will be like the candidate that I am, a respectful candidate, a rallying candidate, a normal candidate for a normal presidency, at the service of the Republic.
Somebody had fired a shot at the President, and I had to get myself between the shooter and the President and Mrs. Kennedy. Nothing else mattered.
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.
I think it is important for Europe to understand that even though I am president and George Bush is not president, Al Qaeda is still a threat.
We, Norton I, do hereby decree that the offices of President, Vice President, and Speaker of the House of Representatives are, from and after this date, abolished.
Americans were told repeatedly by President Bush and Vice President Cheney that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction. None were ever found.
It's pretty hard to say no when a vice president-elect and a president-elect ask you to be part of the national team.
I was student council president in high school, and even in law school, I was vice-president of the student bar association.
George W. Bush has much to evaluate: he has presided over the most sweeping redesign of U.S. grand strategy since the presidency of Franklin D. Roosevelt.
President Lyndon B. Johnson: Are you trying to shit me, George Wallace? Are you trying to fuck over your president?
Mr. Bernstein: President's niece, huh? Before Mr. Kane's through with her, she'll be a president's wife.
President McKenna: What is that? William Stryker: A jet. President McKenna: What kind of jet? William Stryker: We don't know-but it comes out of the basketball court.
The big moment for me was making 'All the President's Men'. It was not about Watergate or President Nixon. I wanted to focus on something I thought not many people knew about: How do journalists get the story?
Yes, I'm going to be the President of the United States. You know why? You think you can get chicks by being in the movies? You can really get chicks by being the President.
Ben Bradlee: All non-denial denials. They doubt our ancestry, but they don't say the story isn't accurate.
[after seeing Bernstein light up a cigarette in an elevator] Bob Woodward: Is there any place you *don't* smoke?
Carl Bernstein: What was that term you used when you screwed up something? Donald H. Segretti: We're rat-fuckin'.
The press secretary who starts to narrow down or close the president's options because he answers delicate negotiating questions no longer serves the president.
I was in elective politics for 24 years. I've made four national races, two for President, two for Vice President. I have found there are other ways to serve, and I'm enjoying them.
