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I am advising the former President, the governor of Florida and the President of the United StatesöI guess you could say I rule the world.

—Bush, Barbara Pierce

We are all the President's men, and we must behave accordingly.

—Kissinger, HenryAlfred

All of you have met another Democratic President. I've never had that opportunity yet.

—Carter,Jimmy (James Earl)

In America, any boy may become president. I suppose that's just one of the risks that he takes.

—Stevenson, Adlai E(wing)

He [John Hoban] believed by incorporating several features of the Dublin style he would make it more home-like forany President of Irishdescent.It was a long wait, but I appreciate his efforts.

—Kennedy,John F(itzgerald)

Dear J W, have the bank president finish the script.

—Epstein,JuliusJ

Being president is like riding a tiger†keep on riding or be swallowed.

—Truman, Harry S

Consumer: A person who is capable of choosing a president but incapable of choosing a bicycle without help from a government agency.

—Stein, Herbert

What you have just said, Mr President, speaks very well of you as a man. It does not speak well of you as a president.

—Petersen, Henry Edward

   I don't mind not being President. I just mind that someone else is.

—Kennedy, Edward M(oore)

We elected a President, not a Pope.

—Streisand, Barbra

Worst damnfool mistake I ever made was letting myself be elected Vice-President of the United States. Should have stuck†as Speaker of the House† Gave up the second most important job in Government foreight long years as Roosevelt's spare tire.

—Garner,John Nance

I thought about it a lot and I thinkevery country ought to have a President.

—Dole, Bob (RobertJoseph)

We live in a time when we have fictitious election results that elect a fictitious president, a time where we have a man sending us to war for fictitious reasons. We are against this war, Mr Bush. Shame on you, Mr Bush. Shame on you.

—Moore, Michael

  George Meany could run for President, but then why should he step down?

—Dole, Bob (RobertJoseph)

Go little book, thy self present, As child whose parent is unkent: To him that is the president Of noblesse and of chivalry, And if that Envy bark at thee, As sure it will, for succour flee.

—Spenser, Edmund

He is a man who sits in the outer office of the White House hoping to hear the President sneeze.

—Mencken, H(enry) L(ouis)

I can't stop being President.

—Clinton, Bill (William)

Put your brilliant mind to work for†dresses for public appearances†that I would wear if Jack were President of France.

—Onassis,Jacqueline Lee Kennedy ne¤  e Bouvier

If the President has a bully pulpit, then the First Lady has a white glove pulpit†more refined, restricted, ceremonial, but it's a pulpit all the same.

—Reagan, Nancy

If you want to be vice-president, stand out here in the rain in your underwear and let everybody see what you're made of.

—Brady, Nicholas F(rederick)

For eight years I was sleeping with the President, and if that doesn't give you special access, I don't know what does!

—Reagan, Nancy

He'll make a fine president. He was the best clerk who ever served under me.

—MacArthur, Douglas

Mr Clinton, according toToni Morrison, the Nobel prize- winning novelist, is our first black President, the first to come from the broken home, the alcoholic mother, the under-the-bridge shadows of our ranking system.

—Miller, Arthur

Mr President, I speak for sixty thousand dead!

—Hughes,William Morris

Mr President, the president is dead.

—Odets, Clifford

   The Constitution has never greatly bothered any wartime President.

—Biddle, Francis Beverley

I made a very deliberate decision not to ask the President, so that I could insulate him from the decision and provide some future deniability for him if it ever leaked out.

—Poindexter,John Marlan

Oh, Mr President, do not let so great an achievement suffer from any taint of legality.

—Knox, Philander Chase

I cast only one voteöfor Jack. It is a rare thing to be able to vote for one's husband for President and I didn't want to dilute it by voting for anyone else.

—Onassis,Jacqueline Lee Kennedy ne¤  e Bouvier

There's one thing to be said about being Presidentö nobody can tell you when to sit down.

—Eisenhower, Dwight D(avid)

Will you please tell me what you do with all the vice presidents a bank has?† The United Statesisthebiggest business institution in the world and they only have one vice president and nobody has ever found anything for him to do.

—Rogers,Will

If you take the wrong course†the President bears the 462 burden of the responsibility quite rightly. The advisers may move onöto new advice.

—Kennedy,John F(itzgerald)

  You get all the French-fries the President can't get to.

—Gore, Al(bert,Jr)

President Clinton returned today†to the university wherehe didn't inhale, didn't get drafted, and didn't get a degree.

—Dowd, Maureen

Como te dec|¤a al principio, nadie hace nada y, naturalmente, soy yo,es elPresidente delaRep u¤ blica elque lo tiene que hacer todo, aunque salga como el cohetero. Con decir que si no fuera por m |¤ no existir|¤a la fortuna, ya que hasta de diosa ciega tengo que hacer en la loter|¤a. But, as I told you, nobody ever does a thing, and so naturally it is I, the President of the Republic, who has to do everything, and take all the blame as well.You might almost say that if it weren't for me Fortune wouldn't exist, as I have even to take the part of the blind goddess in the lottery.

—Asturias, Miguel AŁ   ngel

The President is a walking dead man. He just doesn't know it yet.

—Anonymous

Some people say the president is incapable of enforcing the law. Let them say that once more and I will set the tanks on them.

—Marcos, Ferdinand Edralin

Like Odysseus, the President looked wiser when he was seated.

—Keynes (of Tilton),John Maynard, 1st Baron

'Justice'was done, and the President ofthe Immortals (in Aeschylean phrase) had ended his sport withTess.

—Hardy,Thomas

To be President of the United States, sir, is to act as advocate for the blind, venomous, and ungrateful client; still, one must make the best of the case, for the purposes of Providence.

—Updike,John Hoyer

President Robbins was so well adjusted to his environment that sometimes you could not tell which was the environment and which was President Robbins.

—Jarrell, Randall

Apart from shamrock, the President should not wear emblems or symbols of any kind.

—McAleese, Mary

It was the summer when a president's penis was on everyone's mind, and life, in all its shameless impurity, once again confounded America.

—Roth, Philip Milton

The notion of a defence that will protect American cities is one that will not be achieved, but it is that goal that supplies the political magic in the President's vision.

—Schlesinger,James

This President will go down in historyas the only President who raised taxes before he tookoffice and cut spending after he left office.

—Dole, Bob (RobertJoseph)

Running a cemetery isjust like being President: you got a lot of people under you and nobody's listening.

—Anonymous

All the securityaround the American President is just to make sure the man who shoots him gets caught.

—Mailer, Norman Kingsley

   Ronald Reagan†wasn't without leadership ability, but he lacked most of the management skills that a President needs. But let me give him his due: he would have made a hell of a king.

—O'Neill,Thomas P known as  'Tip'

Here, indeed, was his one peculiar Fach, his one really notable talent. He slept more than any other President, whether bydayor night.Nero fiddled, but Coolidge only snored.

—Mencken, H(enry) L(ouis)

Why should not a large shareholder sometimes name the president?

—Tanaka, Kakuei

   I'd be a terrific governor†a terrific president.

—Clinton, Hillary Rodham

The President hears a hundred voices telling him that he is the greatest man in the world. He must listen carefully indeed to hear the one voice that tells him he is not.

—Truman, Harry S

I thought I was Chief of Staff to the President, not to his wife.

—Regan, Donald Thomas

Polling is merely an instrument for gauging public opinion.When a president or any other leader pays attention to poll results, he is, in effect, paying attention to the views of the people. Any other interpretation is nonsense.

—Gallup, George Horace

When the president does it, that means that it is not illegal† But I brought myself down. I gave them a sword and they stuck it in and twisted it with relish. And I guess that if Ihad been intheir position,I'd have donethesame thing.

—Nixon, Richard M(ilhous)