Presidency

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

You dont need to know whos playing on the White House tennis court to be a good president. A president has many roles. – James Baker

The office of president is a bastardized thing, half royalty and half democracy, that nobody knows whether to genuflect or spit. – Jimmy Breslin

Anyone that wants the presidency so much that hell spend two years organizing and campaigning for it is not to be trusted with the office. – David Broder

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

Id rather be right than President. – Henry Clay

When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President. Now Im beginning to believe it. – Clarence Darrow

You really have to experience the feeling of being with the president in the oval office. … Its a disease I came to call Ovalitis. – John Dean

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

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

I feel very proud, even though they didnt elect me, to be President of the Argentines. – General Leopoldo Galtieri

It is of the nature of war to increase the executive at the expense of the legislative authority. – Alexander Hamilton

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

The President is the peoples lobbyist. – Hubert Humphrey

Jerry Ford is so dumb he cant fart and chew gum at the same time. – Lyndon B. Johnson

Im the only president youve got. – Lyndon B. Johnson