“I sit here all day trying to persuade people to do the things they ought to have sense enough to do without my persuading them…that's all the powers of the President amount to.”— Harry S Truman, amazon.com
“When you get to be President, there are all those things, the honors, the twenty-one gun salutes, all those things. You have to remember it isn't for you. It's for the Presidency.”— Harry S Truman, amazon.com
“The President under our system, like the king in a monarchy, never dies.”— Martin Van Buren, amazon.com
“I tread in the footsteps of illustrious men... in receiving from the people the sacred trust confided to my illustrious predecessor.”— Martin Van Buren, amazon.com
“As to the presidency, the two happiest days of my life were those of my entrance upon the office and my surrender of it.”— Martin Van Buren, amazon.com
“In the age of Trump, himself arguably the worst offender of everything many have accused Wolf of being, you’re holding a COMEDIAN to a standard to which you won’t even hold a PRESIDENT.”— Rajiv Satyal, medium.com
“He’s hiding something...but it doesn’t matter. He’s modern. He makes the presidency accessible. I mean, don’t you want to see the candidate stay up all night?”— John Mankiewicz, Thomas Yates, Paul Sparks, imdb.com
“I cannot, whilst President of the United States, descend to enter into a newspaper controversy.”— James K. Polk, thoughtco.com
“I am heartily rejoiced that my term is so near its close. I will soon cease to be a servant and will become a sovereign.”— James K. Polk, en.wikiquote.org
“With me it is emphatically true that the presidency is "no bed of roses."”— James K. Polk, en.wikiquote.org
“Although in our country the Chief Magistrate must almost of necessity be chosen by a party and stand pledged to its principles and measures, yet in his official action he should not be the President of a part only, but of the whole people of the United States.”— James K. Polk, en.wikiquote.org
“I knew that my staying up would not change the election result if I were defeated, while if elected I had a hard day ahead of me. So I thought a night's rest was best in any event.”— Benjamin Harrison, en.wikiquote.org
“I have often thought that the life of the President is like that of the policeman in the opera, not a happy one.”— Benjamin Harrison, presidential-power.org
“If the tide of defamation and abuse shall turn, and my administration come to be praised, future Vice-Presidents who may succeed to the Presidency may feel some slight encouragement to pursue an independent course.”— John Tyler, en.wikiquote.org
“I can never consent to being dictated to as to what I shall or shall not do. I, as President, shall be responsible for my administration. I hope to have your hearty co-operation in carrying out its measures. So long as you see fit to do this, I shall be glad to have you with me. When you think other…”— John Tyler, en.wikiquote.org
“A job with real power is the First Lady. I'd be willing to run for that. As far as the men who are running for President are concerned, they aren't even people I would date.”— Nora Ephron, books.google.com
“No man has ever been President of the United States more than two terms. You know that; everyone knows that. But when I get in, I'm going to abolish the Electoral College, have universal suffrage, and I defy any sonofabitch to get me out under four terms.”— Huey Long, en.wikiquote.org
“I have no hope of the re-election of Mr. Lincoln. The canvass is a heated one, the people begin to murmur at the war, and every vile charge is brought against my husband.”— Mary Todd Lincoln, amazon.com
“Only six people in the Galaxy knew that the job of the Galactic President was not to wield power but to attract attention away from it.”— Douglas Adams, amazon.com
“In the wake of Trump's presidency, increasing number of migrants from Central America are choosing to stay in Mexico”— CNN, twitter.com