Quotes About Presidency

Ever since I was a young man, I wanted to run for the presidency in the worst possible way - and I did.

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.

Man or woman in the White House. How about that?

I can't think of a man more worthy of the presidency then my good friend Sam Nunn.

My mother believed and my father believed that if I wanted to be president of the United States, I could be, I could be Vice President!

If it was something that I really committed myself to, I don't think there's anything that could stop me becoming President of the United States.

As the Trump presidency goes on, there will be a transcendency of power and culture and vision from the music scene, the art world that will find a voice and give hope to us all.

I like a President who tells jokes instead of appointing them.

No man could be equipped for the presidency if he has never been tempted by one of the seven cardinal sins.

Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so.

It took a Clinton to clean up after the first Bush, it may take another Clinton to clean up after the second one

Ronald Reagan: a triumph of the embalmer's art.

Scrubbing floors and emptying bedpans has as much dignity as the Presidency.

In George Bush you get experience, and with me you get the future.

I think the presidency is much too serious a thing to just play politics with.

Among other prominent errors in the texts were assertions that Robert Francis Kennedy and Martin Luther King, Jr., were assassinated during the Republican presidency of Richard Nixon rather than the Democratic regime of his predecessor, Lyndon Johnson, and that George Bush defeated Michael Dukakis in the election of 1989 rather than 1988—a calendar howler that ought to have jumped out at any author, editor,

First of all we must remember that Theodore Roosevelt was young, a President in his early forties. His appeal was directly to young Republicans. He awakened hope in the colleges. It was not strange that Calvin Coolidge heard him.

I trust God speaks through me,' said Bush the younger in 2004. 'Without that, I couldn't do my job.

I'll be damned if I am not getting tired of this. It seems to be the profession of a President simply to hear other people talk.

Some critics may say Noonday was mad. He was not. Toweringly weird, yes--mad, no. He saw that in five years he would attain the Presidency of the University. Form there he could embark on a career leading straight to the White House, that High Seat of the Lie, open only to holders of the Third Degree of Falsehood.

Anyone that wants the presidency so much that he'll spend two years organizing and campaigning for it is not to be trusted with the office.

I don't take responsibility at all." Those words of Donald Trump at a March 13, 2020, press conference are likely to be history's epitaph on his presidency.

Anybody is a damn fool if he actually seeks to be President," he told friends. "You give up four of the very best years of your life. Lord knows it's a sacrifice. Some people think there is a lot of power and glory attached to the job. On the contrary the very workings of a democratic system see to it that the job has very little power.

David Herbert Donald