Every damn President since I can remember has been so in love with foreign policy that they're just like a schoolboy with a new girl.

I don't know what I expected, but my first morning in the Oval Office had a surprising ring of familiarity to it. It reminded me a lot of my job as governor.

Presidency, n. The greased pig in the field game of American politics.

Abraham Lincoln was not all brooding and melancholy and patient understanding. There was a hard core in him, and plenty of toughness. He could recognize a revolutionary situation when he saw one, and he could act fast and ruthlessly to meet it.

The president we get is the country we get. With each new president the nation is conformed spiritually.

No easy problems ever come to the President of the United States. If they are easy to solve, somebody else has solved them.

The second office of this government is honorable and easy, the first is but a splendid misery.

A Presidents hardest task is not to do what is right, but to know what is right.

Whatever the political affiliation of our next President, whatever his views may be on all the issues and problems that rush in upon us, he must above all be the chief executive in every sense of the word.

The function and responsibility of the President is to set before the American people the unfinished business, the things we must do if we are going to succeed as a nation.