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| A President needs political understanding to run the government, but he may be elected without it. | | Harry S Truman | |
| All the president is, is a glorified public relations man who spends his time flattering, kissing, and kicking people to get them to do what they are supposed to do anyway. | | Harry S Truman | |
| Anybody who wants the presidency so much that he'll spend two years organizing and campaigning for it is not to be trusted with the office. | | David Broder | |
| Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job. | | Douglas Adams | |
| By the time a man gets to be presidential material, he's been bought ten times over. | | Gore Vidal | |
| For instance, it is certain that women do not want a woman for President. Nor would they have the slightest confidence in her ability to fulfill the functions of that office. | | Eleanor Roosevelt | |
| I am not the Catholic candidate for President. I am the Democratic Party's candidate for President, who happens also to be a Catholic. | | John Fitzgerald Kennedy | |
| My father was not a failure. After all, he was the father of a president of the United States. | | Harry S Truman | |
| No man could be equipped for the presidency if he has never been tempted by one of the seven cardinal sins. | | Eugene J. McCarthy | |
| One of the little-celebrated powers of Presidents (and other high government officials) is to listen to their critics with just enough sympathy to ensure their silence. | | John Kenneth Galbraith | |
| Presidents do make mistakes, but the immortal Dante tells us that divine justice weighs the sins of the cold-blooded and the sins of the warm-hearted in different scales | | Franklin D. Roosevelt | |
| Somewhere out in this audience may even be someone who will one day follow in my footsteps, and preside over the White House as the president's spouse. I wish him well. | | Barbara Bush | |
| Take our politicians: they're a bunch of yo-yos. The presidency is now a cross between a popularity contest and a high school debate, with an encyclopedia of cliches the first prize. | | Saul Bellow | |
| This is the man (Ronald Reagan) who proved that ignorance is no handicap to the presidency | | Molly Ivins | |
| You and I are stuck with the necessity of taking the worst of two evils or none at all. So-I'm taking the immature Democrat as the best of the two. Nixon is impossible. | | Harry S Truman | |
| You can always get the truth from an American statesman after he has turned seventy, or given up all hope of the Presidency | | Wendell Phillips | |
