With me it is exceptionally true that the Presidency is no bed of roses.
The presidency is not an entry-level electoral job.
You can always get the truth from an American statesman after he has turned seventy, or given up all hope of the Presidency.
My hope is that that person will come forward that can win the presidency that we can all get behind.
I'm very, very concerned about the Bush presidency. I'm worried about the kinds of cuts in domestic programs that mean something to a lot of people, including members of my family, who depend on certain things from the government.
My fellow citizens, the American Presidency is not supposed to be a journey of personal discovery.
Within the U.S., the Obama presidency will be mainly measured by the success or failure of his economic policies. And here, I fear, the monstrous stimulus package with which this administration stumbled out of the gate will prove to be Obama's Waterloo.
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.
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.
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.
Scrubbing floors and emptying bedpans has as much dignity as the Presidency.
The presidency has many problems, but boredom is the least of them.
The Obama presidency has two great missions: fixing the economy, and preventing Iran from gaining nuclear weapons.
No man could be equipped for the presidency if he has never been tempted by one of the seven cardinal sins.
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.