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A President is best judged by the enemies he makes when he has really hit his stride.

Max Lerner

President
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As far as the job of President goes, its rewarding and I've given before this group the definition of happiness for the Greeks. I'll define it again: the full use of your powers along lines of excellence. I find, therefore, that the Presidency provides some happiness.

John F. Kennedy

President
3

Being a President is like riding a tiger. A man has to keep on riding or he is swallowed.

Harry S. Truman

President
4

But even the President of the United States sometimes must have to stand naked.

Bob Dylan

President
5

But there are advantages to being elected President. The day after I was elected, I had my high school grades classified Top Secret.

Ronald Reagan

President
6

From now on, I think it is safe to predict, neither the Democratic nor the Republican Party will ever nominate for President a candidate without good looks, stage presence, theatrical delivery, and a sense of timing.

James Thurber

President
7

I'm the only president you've got.

Lyndon B. Johnson

President
8

If you want to see your plays performed the way you wrote them, become President.

Václav Havel

President
9

In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.

Adlai E. Stevenson

President
10

In America, the President reigns for four years, and journalism governs for ever and ever.

Oscar Wilde

President
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In our brief national history we have shot four of our presidents, worried five of them to death, impeached one and hounded another out of office. And when all else fails, we hold an election and assassinate their character.

P. J. O'Rourke

President
12

Jerry Ford is so dumb he can't fart and chew gum at the same time.

Lyndon B. Johnson

President
13

Meeting Franklin Roosevelt was like opening your first bottle of champagne; knowing him was like drinking it.

Winston Churchill

President
14

No man will ever bring out of the Presidency the reputation which carries him into it.

Thomas Jefferson

President
15

Power is poison. It's effect on Presidents had always been tragic.

Henry Adams

President
16

Some of the Presidents were great and some of them weren't. I can say that, because I wasn't one of the great Presidents, but I had a good time trying to be one, I can tell you that.

Harry S. Truman

President
17

The power confided in me will be used to hold, occupy and possess the property and places belonging to the government, and to collect the duties and imposts.

Abraham Lincoln

President
18

The President has paid dear for his White House. It has commonly cost him all his peace, and the best of his manly attributes. To preserve for a short time so conspicuous an appearance before the world, he is content to eat dust before the real masters who stand erect behind the throne.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

President
19

The President is the people's lobbyist.

Hubert Humphrey

President
20

The president is the representative of the whole nation and he's the only lobbyist that all the one hundred and sixty million people in the country have.

Harry S. Truman

President
21

To be President of the United States, sir, is to act as advocate for a blind, venomous, and ungrateful client; still, one must make the best of the case, for the purposes of Providence.

John Updike

President
22

Under a Presidential government, a nation has, except at the electing moment, no influence; it has not the ballot-box before it; its virtue is gone, and it must wait till its instant of despotism again returns.

Walter Bagehot

President
23

We want a president who is as much like an American tourist as possible. Someone with the same goofy grin, the same innocent intentions, the same naive trust; a president with no conception of foreign policy and no discernible connection to the U.S. government, whose Nice Guyism will narrow the gap between the U.S. and us until nobody can tell the difference.

Florence King

President
24

When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President. Now I'm beginning to believe it.

Clarence Darrow

President
25

When the President does it, that means that it is not illegal.

Richard Nixon

President
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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.

Harry S. Truman

President

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A President is best judged by the enemies he makes when he has really hit his stride.

As far as the job of President goes, its rewarding and I've given before this group the definition of happiness for the Greeks. I'll define it again: the full use of your powers along lines of excellence. I find, therefore, that the Presidency provides some happiness.

Being a President is like riding a tiger. A man has to keep on riding or he is swallowed.

But even the President of the United States sometimes must have to stand naked.

But there are advantages to being elected President. The day after I was elected, I had my high school grades classified Top Secret.

From now on, I think it is safe to predict, neither the Democratic nor the Republican Party will ever nominate for President a candidate without good looks, stage presence, theatrical delivery, and a sense of timing.

I'm the only president you've got.

If you want to see your plays performed the way you wrote them, become President.

In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.

In America, the President reigns for four years, and journalism governs for ever and ever.

In our brief national history we have shot four of our presidents, worried five of them to death, impeached one and hounded another out of office. And when all else fails, we hold an election and assassinate their character.

Jerry Ford is so dumb he can't fart and chew gum at the same time.

Meeting Franklin Roosevelt was like opening your first bottle of champagne; knowing him was like drinking it.

No man will ever bring out of the Presidency the reputation which carries him into it.

Power is poison. It's effect on Presidents had always been tragic.

Some of the Presidents were great and some of them weren't. I can say that, because I wasn't one of the great Presidents, but I had a good time trying to be one, I can tell you that.

The power confided in me will be used to hold, occupy and possess the property and places belonging to the government, and to collect the duties and imposts.

The President has paid dear for his White House. It has commonly cost him all his peace, and the best of his manly attributes. To preserve for a short time so conspicuous an appearance before the world, he is content to eat dust before the real masters who stand erect behind the throne.

The President is the people's lobbyist.

The president is the representative of the whole nation and he's the only lobbyist that all the one hundred and sixty million people in the country have.

To be President of the United States, sir, is to act as advocate for a blind, venomous, and ungrateful client; still, one must make the best of the case, for the purposes of Providence.

Under a Presidential government, a nation has, except at the electing moment, no influence; it has not the ballot-box before it; its virtue is gone, and it must wait till its instant of despotism again returns.

When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President. Now I'm beginning to believe it.

When the President does it, that means that it is not illegal.

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.