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It's clearly a budget. It's got lots of numbers in it.
— George W. Bush
Reagan is the only man to take the presidency as a part-time job, a means of filling up the otherwise empty hours of retirement.
— Simon Hoggart
The presidency does not yield to definition. Like the glory of a morning sunrise, it can be experienced.
— Calvin Coolidge
To me, the Presidency and the Vice-Presidency were not prizes to be won, but a duty to be done.
— Gerald R. Ford
The best thing about Eisenhower's Presidency was his Jeffersonian conviction that there should be as little government and as much golf as possible.
— Alistair Cooke
The four most miserable years of my life were my four years in the presidency.
— John Quincy Adams
There is far less to the Presidency, in terms of essential activity, than meets the eye.
— Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.
I don't think that the United States are ready for a presidency as the one of Obama, at least because he would be the first black president.
— Gianfranco Fini
As you approach the presidency, no one seems worthy of it, since it wasn't designed for a human in the first place.
— Wilfrid Sheed
Extremism is the pursuit of the presidency is an unpardonable vice. Moderation in the affairs of the nation is the highest virtue.
— Lyndon B. Johnson
Scrubbing floors and emptying bedpans has as much dignity as the Presidency.
— Richard M. Nixon
The Obama presidency, and liberalism in general, are based on not trusting the American people - a belief that big government is better for people.
— Bobby Jindal
There is no office now closed to a Jew, including the presidency.
— Jacob K. Javits
I thought it completely absurd to mention my name in the same breath as the presidency.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
My hope is that that person will come forward that can win the presidency that we can all get behind.
— Rick Perry
Technology has had more of an impact on the presidency and how the presidency communicates than anything.
— Mark McKinnon
Excellence does not begin in Washington.
— Ronald Reagan
I acknowledged that I owed my presidency to People Power. I resolved during my presidency that I would in turn empower the people.
— Corazon Aquino
Democrats have an answer to the unemployment problem. They're all running for the Presidency.
— Bob Hope
Imagine Texas as a blue state: how hard it would be to carry the presidency or gain control of the Senate.
— Jeb Bush
The vice-presidency isnt worth a bucket of warm piss,
— John Nance Garner
Contrary to what people say, my wife never turned me away from the presidency. She told me to reflect on it and do what I wanted.
— Jacques Delors
Ronald Reagan would never go into the Oval Office without his jacket on - that's how much he revered the presidency.
— Kenneth Langone
I'll be damned if I am not getting tired of this. It seems to be the profession of a President simply to hear other people talk.
— William Howard Taft
I have as much experience in the Congress as Jack Kennedy did when he sought the presidency.
— Dan Quayle
Many of the most highly publicized events of my presidency are not nearly as memorable or significant in my life as fishing with my daddy.
— Jimmy Carter
The presidency is not merely an administrative office ... It is pre-eminently a place of moral leadership.
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
Hillary Clinton has secured her place in history. She is the first woman to lead a major party's quest for the presidency.
— Ari Shapiro
One of the things I think I can bring to the presidency is to make government and public service cool again.
— Barack Obama
As with almost every significant aspect of the Bush presidency, its handling of 9/11 was a catastrophe from start to finish.
— Eric Alterman
Well, Warren Harding, I have got you the presidency. What are you going to do with it?
— Florence Harding
In the course of his presidency, Obama has gone from an almost magical charismatic figure to an ordinary politician. Ordinary. Average.
— Charles Krauthammer
When you see how the President makes political or policy decisions, you see who he is. The essence of the Presidency is decision-making.
— Bob Woodward
Running for the presidency's not an IQ test,
— Rick Perry
The Vice-Presidency is sort of like the last cookie on the plate. Everybody insists he won't take it, but somebody always does.
— Bill Vaughan
Concealing one's true medical condition from the voting public is a time-honored tradition of the American presidency.
— Robert Dallek
What people have got to remember is that Sept. 11 happened in 2001 and not in 2003. It was planned under the presidency of Bill Clinton.
— Jack Straw
The Sudan bombing is a blot on the Clinton presidency, and a blot it ought to remain.
— Timothy Noah
I love this university, and although I might be retiring from the presidency, my work with Ohio State will continue.
— Gordon Gee
I think that the presidency really brings out the best in a lot of people.
— Caroline Kennedy
I was dumbfounded by the stupidity of the Watergate break-in.
— Gerald R. Ford
Unsuccessful candidates for the Presidency should be quietly hanged as a matter of public sanitation and decorum.
— H.L. Mencken
Few men in our history have ever obtained the Presidency by planning to obtain it.
— James A. Garfield
My fellow citizens, the American Presidency is not supposed to be a journey of personal discovery.
— Sarah Palin
Only one president in this book was a supervillain. Ladies and gentlemen, meet Chester A. Arthur, the Lex Luthor of the American Presidency.
— Daniel O'Brien
If you are running for the presidency of the United States, you better have a strong opinion.
— Eric Trump
The GOP cannot expect to win the presidency in the future by simply relying on running up big numbers with white voters.
— Mark McKinnon
the formality of the presidency, all
— David McCullough
The Presidency is not a bed of roses.
— James K. Polk
[A]n Obama presidency would be an amusing approximation of the Carter administration, complete with vaporous moralizing and foreign policy bungling.
— Emmett Tyrrell
The presidency has made every man who occupied it, no matter how small, bigger than he was; and no matter how big, not big enough for its demands.
— Lyndon B. Johnson
All modern U.S. presidents are perforce politicians, prisoners of their past pronouncements, their party, their constituency, and their colleagues.
— Tony Judt
The presidency of Barack Obama is a case study in stupid does,
— Bret Stephens
I never wanted to get out of a place as much as I did to get out of the presidency.
— Ulysses S. Grant
You win the presidency by connecting with the American people's gut insecurities and aspirations. You win with a concept.
— Thomas Friedman
I think George W. Bush has a warm, engaging personality. But, you know, the presidency is more than just a popularity contest.
— Al Gore
Donald [Trump], you're not going to be able to insult your way to the presidency. That's not going to happen.
— Jeb Bush
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
In golf, you keep your head down and follow through. In the vice presidency, you keep your head up and follow through. It's a big difference.
— Dan Quayle
Those few days after Kent State were among the darkest of my presidency.
— Richard M. Nixon
Of course, no religious test for the presidency - every faith adds to our national character.
— Benjamin Carson
I plan to work my utmost for Singaporeans, whatever be their political affiliation. The presidency is above politics.
— Tony Tan
And Lincoln, as would be evidenced throughout his presidency, was a master of timing.
— Doris Kearns Goodwin
Selling the presidency like cereal! How can you talk seriously about issues with half-minute spots?
— Adlai Ewing Stevenson
Today was the day; today was the day when they would realize what Zaphod had been up to. Today was what Zaphod Beeblebrox's presidency was all about.
— Douglas Adams
The presidency has many problems, but boredom is the least of them.
— Richard M. Nixon
Ever since I was a young man, I wanted to run for the presidency in the worst possible way - and I did.
— George McGovern
Obama's presidency hasn't been dedicated to achieving economic growth in the short term, or about creating jobs.
— John Podhoretz
Trying to make the presidency work these days is like trying to sew buttons on a custard pie.
— James David Barber
The Vice Presidency isn't worth a pitcher of warm spit.
— John Nance Garner
A Clinton presidency is an Obama third term. And it's very difficult for them to get away from it.
— Paul Ryan
The great contest for the presidency is about the future, who can lead, who can get things done.
— George W. Bush
The presidency is not an office job.
— Jakaya Kikwete
The presidency of the Euro group is an interesting and important task.
— Wolfgang Schauble
The presidency of the United States is not some crown to be passed between two families.
— Martin O'Malley
Presidents are selected, not elected.
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
No man will ever carry out of the Presidency the reputation which carried him into it.
— Thomas Jefferson
No man who ever held the office of president would congratulate a friend on obtaining it.
— John Adams
The two pillars of winning the presidency are being a strong leader and being someone who understands us and our problems.
— Nicolle Wallace
Soon, the Obama presidency will end, and America will have the chance to turn in a new direction.
— Nikki Haley