presidency

Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.

It__ clearly a budget. It__ got lots of numbers in it.

Bigotry against any group should be disqualifying for high office.

A president who has incited violence inspires citizens towards hate and violence.

But, in the Trump aftermath, I've measured the costsAnd benefits of loving those who don't loveStrangers. After all, I'm often the odd one__he strangest stranger__n any field or room."He was weird" will be carved into my tomb.

For nearly four years you have had an Administration which instead of twirling its thumbs has rolled up its sleeves. We will keep our sleeves rolled up. We had to struggle with the old enemies of peace--business and financial monopoly, speculation, reckless banking, class antagonism, sectionalism, war profiteering. They had begun to consider the Government of the United States as a mere appendage to their own affairs. We know now that Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob.

Presidents are selected, not elected.

To bolster his right flank and attract women voters, John McCain had cynically opted for a running mate who was, by any stretch of the imagination, unqualified for a position a heartbeat away from the presidency.

Barack Obama's inspirational whoosh to the presidency in 2008 was unusual. Most campaigns are less exhilarating; indeed, they are downright disappointing - until someone wins.

All respect for the office of the presidency aside, I assumed that the obvious and unadulterated decline of freedom and constitutional sovereignty, not to mention the efforts to curb the power of judicial review, spoke for itself.

I desire to so conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end ... I have lost every friend on earth I shall have one friend left and that friend shall be down inside me.

Had I been chosen president again I am certain I could not have lived another year.

I beg leave to assure the Congress that no pecuniary consideration could have tempted me to accept this arduous employment at the expense of my domestic ease and happiness. I do not wish to make any profit from it.

Harricum! Harricum! Give 'em hell Harricum!

Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.

I think the American public wants a solemn ass as a president and I think I'll go along with them.

Within the first few months I discovered that being a president is like riding a tiger. A man has to keep riding or be swallowed.

I have no expectation of making a hit every time I come to bat.