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No man will ever bring out of the Presidency the reputation which carries him into it. To myself, personally, it brings nothing but increasing drudgery and daily loss of friends.
— Thomas Jefferson
When the President does it, that means that it is not illegal.
— Richard Nixon
I made a mistake by being ejected from the presidency. Next time, I will choose a Cabinet which will allow me to be life President.
— Nelson Mandela
The life of every human being on earth can depend on the experience, judgment, and vigilance of the person in the Oval Office.
— Jimmy Carter
Jimmy Carter taught a Sunday school class throughout his presidency, winning the grudging respect of reporters who had once questioned his religious talk as a political ploy. Even so, he lost many Christians' votes to Ronald Reagan, the only U.S. president to have been divorced and who rarely attended church and gave little to charity, mainly because Reagan supported many of the favorite causes of the religious Right.
— Philip Yancey
This is how Hillary conducts government policy. She is ruthless, she is grasping, she appears to have little empathy or concern for people. She is old, and mean, and even her laugh is a witch's cackle. There is almost nothing appealing about her. How, then, could she be the first choice of progressive Democrats and the apparent frontrunner for winning the presidency in November 2016?
— Dinesh D'Souza
Few men in our history have ever obtained the Presidency by planning to obtain it.
— James A. Garfield
I think it is important for Europe to understand that even though I am president and George Bush is not president, Al Qaeda is still a threat.
— Barack Obama
While President, I have been President, emphatically; I have used every ounce of power there was in the office.…I do not believe that any President ever had as thoroughly good a time as I have had, or has ever enjoyed himself as much.
— Theodore Roosevelt
No man will ever bring out of the Presidency the reputation which carries him into it...To myself, personally, it brings nothing but increasing drudgery and daily loss of friends.
— Thomas Jefferson
As president, I will bring all the parties and stakeholders together. I am going to come up with a solution that respects the environment and does not cause an upheaval in the economy.
— Al Gore
There's never been a presidency that's done so much in such a short period of time, and we haven't even started the big work yet.
— Donald Trump