Quotes About Presidency

She later said, "Sex to Jack [Kennedy] meant no more than a cup of coffee." How did she know? Did she ever have coffee with him? I have no reason to think so, but in that picture, the president looks like he's about to start the percolator.

His rough tongue is a sign of a president who is dismantling the traditional presidency.

At the end of the day, when it comes time to make that decision, as president, all you have to guide you are your values, and your vision, and the life experiences that make you who you are.

I want to be president mainly for what I don't want to do: I don't want to run your life, I don't want to run the economy, and I don't want to police the world.

[George W.] Bush's presidency was one of the great nightmares of my life to date.

[Voters] are trying to make up their mind on who has a better plan for the economy, whose presidency would more positively impact my life?

BY ALL ACCOUNTS, HOWEVER, Washington did not want the presidency.

When it comes to the qualifications that we should demand of our president, to start with, we need someone who will take the job seriously.

I support Hillary Clinton for the presidency because her experience and her record demonstrate that she's qualified to hold the job.

Kings and queens are expected to have offspring to carry on the name. There are no such demands on American presidents, but there is an expectation. There is a hope.

Too great a love for the presidency has caused Democrats to neglect state and local politics and to overly prize compromise and a futile quest for bipartisanship. It has made liberals too allergic to federalism and too shy about grassroots politics.

One of the questions that I often get is, 'Why are you running to be President?'. To Be President! What did I miss? I'm not running to go to Disneyland.

I ran because somebody had to do it first. In this country, everybody is supposed to be able to run for president, but that has never really been true.

Eventually, Nixon ran a very centrist presidency, not a Goldwater conservative presidency.

No real-world human being brings to the U.S. presidency the range of attributes necessary for full success in the job.

People make a big fuss over you when you're President. But I'm very serious about doing everything I can to make sure that it doesn't go to my head.

We've flown the president since Eisenhower, and we're going to continue to fly the president for generations to come. This is something we're very proud of.

If George W. Bush is elected president, I'm leaving for France.

The idea of a mentally ill vice president who suffers in complete isolation was obviously sparked by the behaviors I witnessed by Sarah Palin. What if somebody who was ill-equipped for the office were to ascend to the presidency or vice presidency? What would they do? How long would it take for people to figure it out?

I want history to remember me... not as the first black woman to have made a bid for the presidency of the United States, but as a black woman who lived in the 20th century and who dared to be herself. I want to be remembered as a catalyst for change in America.

As the father of five children, with three daughters, I'm pretty fired up to have the first woman president of the United States.

Theodore Roosevelt, when he was out of office, he would do things to draw attention. But when you are president, you don't need to shout. When you are in office, you are the story.

Postman is a media analyst and his theory is that television doesn't influence our culture, but that it is our culture and the presidency and anything that relies on television.

The senior thesis of Hillary D. Rodham, Wellesley College class of 1969, has been speculated about, spun, analyzed, debated, criticized and defended. But rarely has it been read, because for the eight years of Bill Clinton's presidency it was locked away.