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The presidency is more than a popularity contest.

I think George W. Bush has a warm, engaging personality. But, you know, the presidency is more than just a popularity contest.

Well, Warren Harding, I have got you the presidency. What are you going to do with it?

But we need to show that the EU can modernise itself, can adapt to the needs of its citizens, can take their views into account. That will be our ambition for the UK Presidency.

Our aim, during our Presidency in the next six months will be to lead this challenge, to show that Europe can function in a mature and responsible way, to start delivering tangible results that show we are taking people's concerns seriously.

The standard rumor at the time was that Rumsfeld, as chief of staff, had persuaded President Ford to appoint George H.W. Bush as director of Central Intelligence, assuming that that got rid of a potential competitor for the presidency.

No man will ever carry out of the Presidency the reputation which carried him into it.

When the burdens of the presidency seem unusually heavy, I always remind myself it could be worse. I could be a mayor.

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.

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.

Postman is a media analyst and his theory is that television doesn't influence our culture, but that it is our culture and the presidency and anything that relies on television.

If the American people really come to a settled belief that Bush lied us into war, his presidency will be over.

I did though at least expect him to correct the false statements he made when he was trying to protect the Presidency. Instead, he talked about it as though I had laid it all out there for the taking. I was the buffet and he just couldn't resist the dessert.

No man could be equipped for the presidency if he has never been tempted by one of the seven cardinal sins.

The Obama presidency has two great missions: fixing the economy, and preventing Iran from gaining nuclear weapons.

The presidency has many problems, but boredom is the least of them.

Scrubbing floors and emptying bedpans has as much dignity as the Presidency.

Watergate had become the center of the media's universe, and during the remaining year of my presidency the media tried to force everything else to revolve around it.

I have never been a quitter. To leave office before my term is completed is opposed to every instinct in my body. But as president I must put the interests of America first Therefore, I shall resign the presidency effective at noon tomorrow.

Let me even say before I even get inaugurated, during the transition we are going to be having meetings all across the country with community organizations so that you have input into the agenda for the next presidency of the United States of America.