Starting in 1994, with the Republican election of Congress, I think [Rush] Limbaugh made a difference in electing the Republican majority. In the following three elections, he made the difference holding the majority. And in 2000, in the presidential race in Florida, he was the difference between Gore and Bush winning Florida, and thus the Presidency.
I would say of all the things that have happened during the course of my presidency the knowledge that you have hundreds of thousands of people who have been killed, millions who have been displaced, [makes me] ask myself what might I have done differently along the course of the last five, six years.
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.
I think it would be a threat [Donald's Trump presidency] to the conduct of our foreign policy and our position in the world at large.
All Presidents start out to run a crusade but after a couple of years they find they are running something less heroic and much more intractable: namely the presidency. The people are well cured by then of election fever, during which they think they are choosing Moses. In the third year, they look on the man as a sinner and a bumble and begin to poke around for rumors of another Messiah.
Few men in our history have ever obtained the Presidency by planning to obtain it.
While I'm critical to the Bush presidency, it's been enormously beneficial for Salon because we're seen as kind of an aggressive watchdog on the Bush White House. Particularly since Florida, our readership hit a whole new level, and we held onto those readers.
Presidents are not permitted to have personal feelings.
I once told Nixon that the Presidency is like being a jackass caught in a hail storm. You've got to just stand there and take it.
My presidency is not over. I've got another five years coming up.
In 2004, I joined my father, John Kerry, on the trail in his bid for the United States presidency.
Anything may be possible in America, but a Palin presidency is virtually implausible.
I think that is also something he [Barack Obama], in the beginning of his presidency, he couldn't really explore and couldn't show. He had to be almost a one-dimensional, stoic leader during that first election.
Excellence does not begin in Washington.
I never wanted to get out of a place as much as I did to get out of the presidency.
As you approach the presidency, no one seems worthy of it, since it wasn't designed for a human in the first place.
Bush's presidency is revisionism-proof. We're going to be recovering from it for the rest of our lives.
You don't run for the presidency out of nostalgia.
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.
By disgracing and degrading the presidency of the United States, by fleeing the White House like a diseased cur, Richard Nixon broke the heart of the American Dream.