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
  Pictures from an Institution, pt.1, ch.4.

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

-Kennedy, Edward M(oore)
  Speech, Washington, 22 Mar.

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)
  Comment to White House Special Counsel Theodore C Sorensen, Dec, after the ill-fated Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba.

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)
  On the Irish- American architect's design of the White House. Speech to the Irish Parliament reported in the NewYork Times,19  Jun.

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

-Keynes (of Tilton),John Maynard, 1st Baron
  Of  Woodrow Wilson. The Economic Consequences of the Peace.

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

-Kissinger, HenryAlfred
  On the US invasion of Cambodia, alluding to the nursery rhyme Humpty Dumpty ('All the king's men†'). The phrase was used in the title of the book by  Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein on the Watergate scandal.

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

-Knox, Philander Chase
  Quoted in TomBuckley Violent Neighbours (1983), alluding to Theodore Roosevelt's desire to find legal grounds for the seizure of the Panama Canal by the US.

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

-McAleese, Mary
  On why she would not be wearing a poppy at her inauguration on11 Nov. In The Guardian,13  Apr.

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

-MacArthur, Douglas
  On Dwight D Eisenhower's election as President. In news summaries, 31 Dec.

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

-Mailer, Norman Kingsley
  In the Sunday Telegraph, 4 Mar.

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
  Quoted in'The Snap Revolution', in  James Fenton  All the Wrong Places.

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)
  Of Calvin Coolidge. In the American Mercury,  Apr.

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)
Of the Vice-President. Recalled on his death, 29  Jan1956.

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
  In the NewYork Times,15 Oct.

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
   At the 76th  Academy Awards, where he was awarded an Oscar for Best Documentary Director.

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)
  Interviewed by David Frost, May.

Mr President, the president is dead.

-Odets, Clifford
   To Lyndon B  Johnson after the assassination of  John F Kennedy, 22 Nov.

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
  Letter to Oleg Cassini,13 Dec. Quoted in Oleg Cassini In My Fashion (1987).

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
On the1960 elections. Quoted in  Arthur M Schlesinger  Jr A  Thousand Days (1965).

   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'
  Man of the House.