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"A President cannot always be popular."	Harry Truman
"A President either is constantly on top of events or, if he hesitates, events will soon be on top of him. I never felt that I could let up for a single moment."	Harry Truman
"Always be on time. Do as little talking as humanly possible. Remember to lean back in the parade so everybody can see the president. Be sure not to get too fat, because you'll have to sit three in the back."	Eleanor Roosevelt
"As President, I have no eyes but constitutional eyes; I cannot see you."	Abraham Lincoln
"Being president is like being a jackass in a hailstorm. There's nothing to do but stand there and take it."	Lyndon B. Johnson
"Democracy means that anyone can grow up to be president, and anyone who doesn't grow up can be vice president."	Johnny Carson
"Had I been chosen President again, I am certain I could not have lived another year."	John Adams
"I had a dream the other night. I dreamed that Jimmy Carter came to me and asked why I wanted his job. I told him I didn't want his job. I want to be President."	Ronald Reagan
"I sit here all day trying to persuade people to do the things they ought to have the sense to do without my persuading them. That's all the powers of the President amount to."	Harry Truman
"I think the American public wants a solemn ass as a President, and I think I'll go along with them."	Calvin Coolidge
"I would rather have peace in the world than be President."	Harry Truman
"In America, anyone can become president. That's one of the risks you take."	Adlai Stevenson
"I've worked for four presidents and watched two others up close, and I know that there's no such thing as a routine day in the Oval Office."	Dick Cheney
"Most of the problems a President has to face have their roots in the past."	Harry Truman
"Mothers all want their sons to grow up to be president, but they don't want them to become politicians in the process."	John F. Kennedy
"No easy problem ever comes to the President of the United States. If they are easy to solve, somebody else has solved them."	John F. Kennedy
"No man will ever bring out of the Presidency the reputation which carries him into it. To myself, personally, it brings nothing but increasing drudgery and daily loss of friends."	Thomas Jefferson
"No one who has not had the responsibility can really understand what it is like to be President, not even his closest aides or members of his immediate family. There is no end to the chain of responsibility that binds him, and he is never allowed to forget that he is President."	Harry Truman
"PRESIDENCY, n. The greased pig in the field game of American politics."	Ambrose Bierce
"PRESIDENT, n. The leading figure in a small group of men of whom � and of whom only � it is positively known that immense numbers of their countrymen did not want any of them for President."	Ambrose Bierce

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