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

-Anonymous
  Senior legislator on President Clinton's political future as he entered the second half of his term of office. In Nightline, ABC  T V broadcast, 6 Dec.

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

-Anonymous
Quoted by Bill Clinton,10  Jan1995.

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
  El sen‹  or presidente ( The President,1963), pt.3, ch.37.

   The Constitution has never greatly bothered any wartime President.

-Biddle, Francis Beverley
  In Brief  Authority.

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)
  On the need to strip the secrecy from selection of vice- presidential candidates instead of having surprise choices such as Dan Quayle. In the Washington Post, 28  Aug.

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
  On her political power. Quoted in Newsweek, 31 Mar.

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

-Carter,Jimmy (James Earl)
  On greeting former Presidents Bush, Reagan, Ford and Nixon at the dedication of the Reagan Library. Reported in the NewYork Times, 5 Nov.

I can't stop being President.

-Clinton, Bill (William)
  Comment after a suicide plane attack and two incidents of gunfire on the White House. Reported in the NewYork Times, 18 Dec.

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

-Clinton, Hillary Rodham
  Statement during her husband's presidential campaign. Reported in the Washington Post, 22 Feb1995.

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

-Dole, Bob (RobertJoseph)
  On Meany's status as president of the  American Federation of Labor. In the Wall Street  Journal,7 Sep.

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)
  On Bill Clinton's retroactive tax increases and promises of future spending cuts. In the Los  Angeles Times,16 Feb.

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

-Dole, Bob (RobertJoseph)
  To television host David Letterman on his decision to seek high office. Reported in Time,13 Feb.

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

-Dowd, Maureen
  On President Clinton's visit to Oxford where as a Rhodes Scholar he had tried marijuana, avoided conscription, and left to attendYale Law School. In the NewYork Times, 9  Jun.

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

-Eisenhower, Dwight D(avid)
  Speech.

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

-Epstein,JuliusJ
Response to a note from  Jack Warner which had read 'Railroad presidents get in at nine o'clock, bank presidents get in at nine o'clock, read your contract, you're coming in at nine o'clock.' Quoted in  Aljean Harmetz Round Up the Usual Suspects (1993).

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
  NBC news,1 Dec.

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
  In the Saturday Evening Post, 2 Nov.

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

-Gore, Al(bert,Jr)
  On being Vice-President. In the NewYork Times, 8  Apr.

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

-Hardy,Thomas
Tess of the D'Urbervilles, ch.59.

Mr President, I speak for sixty thousand dead!

-Hughes,William Morris
  Reply to Woodrow Wilson at the Versailles Peace Conference,  Jan, referring to the ANZ AC fatalities in World War I. Wilson had asked 'Mr Hughes, I speak for very many millions of people. For whom do you speak?'.