Quote by Jimmy Breslin
The office of president is a bastardized thing, half royalty and h

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

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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

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

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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

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