Quotes about Presidency

It's time to restore honor and dignity to the White House.

The four most miserable years of my life were my four years in the presidency.

If I could be elected president, I wanted to do what I could to bring about a spiritual revival in America.

If I were president of the United States, I would include Moslems in my presidency.

I think I'd be a better president because I was in combat.

I just didn't want to get out there anymore; I didn't want to get back into what I call 'the swamp.' And the other reason why is I don't think it's good for the presidency for a former president to be opining about his successor. President Obama's got plenty of critics - and I'm just not gonna be one.

Seriously, I do not think I am fit for the Presidency.

The presidency is not merely an administrative office...It is pre-eminently a place of moral leadership.

There's always an element of self delusion among people who believe they ought to be President. There's an underestimation of your opponent and an overestimation of your own abilities. This is compatible with being rich and powerful, the idea that we were blessed by God because we deserve to be blessed.

The President is not only the leader of a party, he is the President of the whole people. He must interpret the conscience of America. He must guide his conduct by the idealism of our people.

The GOP cannot expect to win the presidency in the future by simply relying on running up big numbers with white voters.

They have seen in his [Senator Stephen A. Douglas's] round, jolly, fruitful face, post offices, land offices, marshalships, and cabinet appointments, chargeships and foreign missions, bursting and sprouting out in wonderful exuberance ready to be laid hold of by their greedy hands. . . . Nobody has ever expected me to be President. In my poor, lean, lank face nobody has ever seen that any cabbages were sprouting out.