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| Alla som är kapabla att göra sig själva till president borde inte på några villkor ha tillåtelse att vara det. | Douglas Adams (1952-2001) |
| President Bush åkte till Kanada idag för att närvara på handelsmötet. Tydligen så fick handelsmötet en pinsam start när presidenten tog fram sina baseball-kort. | Conan O'Brien |
| Presidenten är den siste i världen att veta vad folk egentligen vill och tänker. | James A. Garfield (1831-1881) |
| To be a great president, you have to have a war. All the great presidents have had their wars. | Adm James Crowe |
| Somewhere out in this audience may even be someone who will one day follow in my footsteps, and preside over the White House as the president's spouse. I wish him well. | Barbara Bush (1925-) |
| It was as simple as this: The Kennedys had a feeling of being heightened and it rubbed off on the people who came in contact with them. They were a unit. | Charles Spalding |
| Anybody who wants the presidency so much that he'll spend two years organizing and campaigning for it is not to be trusted with the office. | David Broder |
| Frankly, I don't mind not being President. I just mind that someone else is. | Edward Kennedy (1932-) |
| A woman will be elected President before Wade Boggs is called out on strikes. I guarantee that. | George Brett (1953-) |
| The President is the last person in the world to know what the people really want and think. | James A. Garfield (1831-1881) |
| We have entered the era of the "imperial" former presidency with lavish libraries, special staffs and benefits, around-the-clock Secret Service protection for life and other badges of privilege. | Lawton Chiles (1930-) |
| I have one president at a time. I only work for you. | Richard M. Helms |
| The presidency is a huge echo chamber magnifying every little thing he does. | Stephen Hess |
| All I ever wanted to be president of was the American League. | A. Bartlett Giamatti (1938-1989) |
| On a good day, I view the job [of president] as directing an orchestra. On the dark days, it is more like that of a clutch-engaging the engine to effect forward motion, while taking greater friction. | A. Bartlett Giamatti (1938-1989) |
| I am acutely aware that you have not elected me as your President by your ballots, so I ask you to confirm me with your prayers. | Gerald R. Ford (1913-1913) |
| Bush said today he is being stalked. He said wherever he goes, people are following him. Finally, someone told him, 'Psst. That's the Secret Service.' | Jay Leno (1950-) |
| The President seems to extend executive privilege way out past the atmosphere. What he says is executive privilege is nothing but executive poppycock. | Sam Ervin (1896-1985) |
| Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job. | Douglas Adams (1952-2001) |
| Somewhere out in this audience may even be someone who will one day follow in my footsteps, and preside over the White House as the president's spouse. I wish him well. | Barbara Bush (1925-) |
| I also wish that the Pledge of Allegiance were directed at the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, as it is when the President takes his oath of office, rather than to the flag and the nation | Dr. Carl Sagan (1934-1996) |
| President Bush left for Canada today to attend a trade summit. Reportedly, the trade summit got off to an awkward start when the president pulled out his baseball cards. | Conan O'Brien |
| Being president is like being a jackass in a hailstorm. There's nothing to do but to stand there and take it. | Lyndon Baines Johnson (1908-1973) |
| A president's hardest task is not to do what is right but to know what is right | Lyndon Baines Johnson (1908-1973) |
| A President needs political understanding to run the government, but he may be elected without it. | Harry S Truman (1884-1972) |
| When I talked to him on the phone yesterday. I called him George rather than Mr. Vice President. But, in public, it's Mr. Vice President, because that is who he is. | Dan Quayle (1947-1947) |
| One of the embarrassing problems for the early nineteenth-century champions of the Christian faith was that not one of the first six Presidents of the United States was an orthodox Christian. | Mortimer Adler (1902-2001) |
| President Reagan was elected on the promise of getting government off the backs of the people and now he demands that government wrap itself around the waists of the people. | Ralph Nader (1934-) |
| I like the job. That's what I'll miss the most... I'm not sure anybody ever liked this as much as I've liked it | Bill Clinton (1946-) |
| My father was not a failure. After all, he was the father of a president of the United States. | Harry S Truman (1884-1972) |
| All the president is, is a glorified public relations man who spends his time flattering, kissing, and kicking people to get them to do what they are supposed to do anyway. | Harry S Truman (1884-1972) |
| You and I are stuck with the necessity of taking the worst of two evils or none at all. So-I'm taking the immature Democrat as the best of the two. Nixon is impossible. | Harry S Truman (1884-1972) |
| President Bush is taking the entire month of August off. Bush said today he thinks it is important for a president to spend time away from Washington. Or at least that's what Dick Cheney told him. | Jay Leno (1950-) |
| Take our politicians: they're a bunch of yo-yos. The presidency is now a cross between a popularity contest and a high school debate, with an encyclopedia of cliches the first prize. | Saul Bellow (1915-2005) |
| Anybody who wants the presidency so much that he'll spend two years organizing and campaigning for it is not to be trusted with the office. | David Broder |
| One of the little-celebrated powers of Presidents (and other high government officials) is to listen to their critics with just enough sympathy to ensure their silence. | John Kenneth Galbraith (1908-) |
| When I talked to him on the phone yesterday. I called him George rather than Mr. Vice President. But, in public, it's Mr. Vice President, because that is who he is. | Dan Quayle (1947-1947) |
| We make a lot of fun at President Clinton's expense. But this transition is going to be tough because it's been 25 years since this guy has gotten laid in the private sector. | David Letterman (1947-) |
| Many people around the President have sizeable egos before entering government, some with good reason. Their new positions will do little to moderate their egos. | Donald Rumsfeld (1932-) |
| See that the President, the Cabinet and staff are informed. If cut out of the information flow, their decisions may be poor, not made, or not confidently or persuasively implemented. | Donald Rumsfeld (1932-) |
| Preserve the President's options. He may need them. | Donald Rumsfeld (1932-) |
| Know that the immediate staff and others in the Administration will assume that your manner, tone and tempo reflect the President's. | Donald Rumsfeld (1932-) |
| Walk around. If you are invisible, the mystique of the President's office may perpetuate inaccurate impressions about you or the President, to his detriment. After all, you may not be as bad as they're saying. | Donald Rumsfeld (1932-) |
| Don't automatically obey Presidential directives if you disagree or if you suspect he hasn't considered key aspects of the issue. | Donald Rumsfeld (1932-) |
| Oh, that lovely title, ex-president. | Dwight David Eisenhower (1890-1969) |
| By the time a man gets to be presidential material, he's been bought ten times over. | Gore Vidal (1948-) |
| I am not the Catholic candidate for President. I am the Democratic Party's candidate for President, who happens also to be a Catholic. | John Fitzgerald Kennedy (1917-1963) |
| We have entered the era of the "imperial" former presidency with lavish libraries, special staffs and benefits, around-the-clock Secret Service protection for life and other badges of privilege. | Lawton Chiles (1930-) |
| What we won when all of our people united must not be lost in suspicion and distrust and selfishness and politics. Accordingly, I shall not seek, and I will not accept, the nomination of my party for another term as president. | Lyndon B. Johnson (1908-1973) |
| 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. | Lyndon B. Johnson (1908-1973) |
| If you see the President, tell him from me that whatever happens there will be no turning back. | General Ulysses S. Grant (1822-1885) |
| I have come to the conclusion that the major part of the work of a President is to increase the gate receipts of expositions and fairs and bring tourists to town. | William Howard Taft (1857-1930) |