Quotes About Expectations

People who have heard of me have heard of me mostly through presenting and asked, 'Why have you gone into comedy?'

In reality, girls make mistakes, and it's not fair to keep presenting this narrative that they're perfect.

I get mad when people give me presents. I don't want them, I don't need them.

In the course of his presidency, Obama has gone from an almost magical charismatic figure to an ordinary politician. Ordinary. Average.

The idea that the president doesn't interfere in law-enforcement investigative matters is one of our deep normative expectations of the modern presidency. But it is not a matter of law. Legally, if the president of the United States wants to direct the specific conduct of investigations, that is his constitutional prerogative.

There were so many things I couldn't do when my brother-in-law was president.

Look, when you're the president, there's all kinds of things said about us. I mean, it's just the nature of the job.

When I joined the ANC, I never thought I would be anything. In no way, did I say, 'One day I could be the president. I think I am good material for the presidency.' Not at all.

Now that President Trump is a reality, I happily have been giving him a chance to see how he does.

Hillary Clinton must have been as aware as anyone that by entering the presidential race she was kicking off a long-awaited social experiment.

At the start of first terms, presidents invariably have a measure of goodwill.

We have at least learned that the offspring of presidents don't necessarily make good politicians themselves.

Presidents have to learn how to adapt. Every president comes into the job; it's different than they expect. They must adapt.

American presidents get to make lots of choices, with one critical exception: what awaits them in the in-box on top of the desk in the Oval Office.

Presidents and cabinet officials could send a strong message of accountability if they held senior appointees responsible for their performance.

My parents don't press it but, you know, they're into good grades.

I think I was more or less, convinced of that by just the press, the US press. By people who were pressuring you, saying that you gotta beat the Russian's, if you don't win anything else, win the Russian meet and so forth.

There's such an emphasis on people being the perfect thing and then destroying them because it's good press.

The press made me something I really wasn't and I tried to live up to what they made me.

If somebody doesn't want to show up for a press conference I'll pull them from the card.

The day I became press secretary to the President of the United States, I was in an entirely different world from the one I'd been in the day before.

I like to play attacking football, but I think the big difference is that we expect a lot more from our strikers, to do more pressing and to keep compact. We like to play a high line defensively and press the ball.

When you are nominated for the best player in Europe, the Ballon d'Or, playing in the Champions League, there is so much pressure. You don't know what will happen. This pressure is inside you - you always have it.

Pressure's what you make of it.