Every U.S. president enters office promising stronger ties with our southern neighbors, only to thereupon largely ignore them.
If you look at that 2008 Democratic primary, there was no more formidable, unstoppable candidate - other than an incumbent President - in modern times than Hillary Clinton.
I've been amazed at the degree to which Democrats, in particular, have expressed their enthusiasm for the president's manner with which he handled this budget.
There's several different forms of executive privilege. The one that is most absolute would be close advisers talking to the president himself.
Presidents are elected not by direct popular vote but by 538 members of the Electoral College.
While Republican voters have remained universally supportive of their President, Democrats and Independents are returning to a more naturally critical stance.
Once there were two brothers: one ran away to sea, the other was elected Vice-President-and nothing was ever heard from either of them again.
After Obama became president, I realized that black people could not have put him in the White House - it had to be a collective effort of everybody in the country.
One thing without any question that is true today and that is that the winner of the 28-minute commercial is President Barack Obama.
Republicans believed that their job was not governing but blocking any idea coming from President Obama and the Democrats, and wiping out Democrats in the 2012 election.
I can assure you we are all strong-willed, forceful personalities and the president encourages vigorous debate.
Lots of people fantasize about what it would be like if they were president... Most think they'd be decent and wouldn't be corrupted at all, that they'd remain true to themselves.
President Obama vowed in his State of the Union address to make assisting domestic manufacturers a top priority for his second term.
The job of mayor and Governor is becoming more and more like the job of university president, which I used to be; it looks like you are in charge, but you are not.
I think, I think we need a Republican president from the real world to remind ourselves sometimes of what we need to do.
There's already been black presidents who've been corrupt, so it doesn't strike me that having a black man in office means he's going to be the Messiah.
Eighty percent of the problems that beset unification immediately disappeared when the President signed the bill increasing the authority and the responsibility of the Secretary of Defense.
The presidency has made every man who occupied it, no matter how small, bigger than he was; and no matter how big, not big enough for its demands.
When the burdens of the presidency seem unusually heavy, I always remind myself it could be worse. I could be a mayor.
I once told Nixon that the Presidency is like being a jackass caught in a hail storm. You've got to just stand there and take it.
I was a sidelines child: never class president, never team captain, never the one with the most valentines in my box.
