Certainly I had my preference, and I very much hoped that George W. Bush would be our next president.
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.
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.
I have been in America only once since Mr. Clinton became your president - as a speaker at the United Nations.
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.
