45 quotes found
“If you are as happy my dear sir on entering this house as I am in leaving it and returning home you are the happiest man in this country.”
“I would rather be right than President.”
“No man will ever bring out of the Presidency the reputation which carries him into it.”
“If forced to choose between the penitentiary and the White House for four years I would say the penitentiary thank you.”
“They pick a President and then for four years they pick on him.”
“My movements to the chair of government will be accompanied by feelings not unlike those of a culprit who is going to the place of his execution.”
“The president is the representative of the whole nation and he's the only lobbyist that all the one hundred and sixty million people in this country have.”
“Trying to make the presidency work these days is like trying to sew buttons on a custard pie.”
“Th' prisidincy is th' highest office in th' gift iv th people. Th' vice-prisidincy is th' next highest an' the lowest. It isn't a crime exactly. Ye can't be sint to jail f r it but it's a kind iv ...”
“Seriously I do not think I am fit for the presidency.”
“An eminent American is reported to have said to friends who wished to put him forward 'Gentlemen let there be no mistake. I should make a good president but a very bad candidate.'”
“Well I wouldn't say that I was in the 'great' class but I had a great time while I was trying to be great.”
“The presidency does not yield to definition. Like the glory of a morning sunrise it can be experienced - it can not be told.”
“When the president does it that means it is not illegal.”
“A president's hardest task is not to do what's right but to know what's right.”
“Had I been chosen president again I am certain I could not have lived another year.”
“The four most miserable years of my life . . .”
“If you are as happy my dear sir on entering this house as I am in leaving it and returning home you are the happiest man in the country.”
“I feel like the man who was tarred and feathered and ridden out of town on a rail. To the man who asked how he liked it he said: 'If it wasn't for the honour of the thing I'd rather walk.'”
“The office of president requires the constitution of an athlete the patience of a mother the endurance of an early Christian.”
