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.
I've noticed that in the U.S., when the president hits the three-year mark in office, he goes into re-election campaigning.
Write from the heart. A book without a pulse is like a person without a spirit." Linda Radke, President of Five Star Publications
The terrorist action of 9/11 gave birth to President Obama's entry to the White House. Not directly, but indirectly.
When you are running for the presidency of the United States, you have to expect that you are going to have attacks by all sides.
Messrs. Washington and Lincoln would be appalled and saddened by what their successor, President Obama, and the modern Democratic Party are doing to the nation they dedicated their lives to keep alive.
No feature of the Obama presidency has been sadder than its constant efforts to divide us, to curry favor with some Americans by castigating others.
My conscience does not permit me to run for the presidency or any other official position unless it is within a democratic framework.
If you look back at President Bush, nobody agreed with his policies, but you understood that he was doing things that he believed was right.
I'm happy with the vote and the support. I'm very glad that it is so decisive. It will enable me to be a president for all of the people.
Wisdom of the Ages: "President's Day" One allowed the Federal Reserve and one got lead. One got a city and the other got dead.
To be frank, I don't think President Obama gives much thought to Africa - or gives much to Africa.
Anywhere in the world if you see a president holding his chair tightly, that man is either a thief or a tyrant, and even worse than this, he is both!
I guess I was one of the popular kids. I played soccer, I was class president - I even dated the homecoming queen.
No matter how you rearrange President Obama's inner circle, it still looks, smells and tastes like a rotten Chicago deep-dish pizza.
President Bush has a track record of making the right decisions when it comes to national security.
Watergate had become the center of the media's universe, and during the remaining year of my presidency the media tried to force everything else to revolve around it.
The American people are entitled to see the president and to hear his views directly, and not to see him only through the press.
