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"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
"PRESIDENCY, n. The greased pig in the field game of American politics."	Ambrose Bierce
"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
"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
"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
"There is a tragic flaw in our precious Constitution, and I don�t know what can be done to fix it. This is it: Only nut cases want to be president."	Kurt Vonnegut
"You are apprehensive of monarchy; I, of aristocracy. I would therefore have given more power to the President and less to the Senate."	John Adams
"Somewhere out in this audience may even be someone who will one day follow my footsteps, and preside over the White House as the president's spouse. I wish him well!"	Barbara Bush
"Being president is like being a jackass in a hailstorm. There's nothing to do but stand there and take it."	Lyndon B. Johnson
"A President cannot always be popular."	Harry Truman
"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
"The buck stops here."	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
"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
"The thought of being president frightens me. I do not think I want the job."	Ronald Reagan
"When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it."	Clarence Darrow
"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
"I would rather have peace in the world than be President."	Harry Truman
"When you get to be President, there are all those things, the honors, the twenty-one gun salutes, all those things. You have to remember it isn't for you. It's for the Presidency."	Harry Truman

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