Louis D. Brandeis Quotes

I kept a very full diary of my relationship with Nixon, for some strange reason, until he became president.

As you probably know, I've written a lot about the presidency, so it's obviously exciting when you get to interview a president and write about it.

Though it was never a goal in life, it has occurred to me that I've met six presidents of the United States. OK, I met four of them before they became president, including Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush, No. 43.

As to the presidency, the two happiest days of my life were those of my entrance upon the office and my surrender of it.

Ohio claims they are due a President as they haven't had one since Taft. Look at the United States, they haven't had one since Lincoln.

The need for this amendment grows directly out of the unfortunate experience we had in this country in 1940 and again in 1944 when a President (FDR) who had entrenched himself in power by use of patronage and the public purse refused to vacate the office at the conclusion of 2 terms, but used the great powers of the Presidency to perpetuate himself in office.

Oh, what a lovely title, ex-president

I don't ever want to be president - let's just get that out of the way.

If you are as happy in entering the White House as I shall feel on returning to Wheatland, you are a happy man indeed.

In 2020, there will be a new president, and I will be an ex-president.

Gerald Ford is the first President of the United States to be elected by a majority of one—and nobody demanded a recount.

Me a President? I would be a worse President than George W. Bush if such a thing is possible.

As you get further away from a presidency you are better able to assess that presidency.

The notion that it is desirable to have a President who can give his full attention to the "presidency" and not worry about reelection is quite a mistake.

If the people of the United States can be trusted to elect a President for one term, or two terms, they also can be trusted to determine whether he should be considered in office for a third term.

The end of every President's second term is always a bit disappointing, isn't it?

President [William Howard] Taft is an amiable man, completely surrounded by men who know exactly what they want.

I feel much alarmed at the prospect of seeing General [Andrew] Jackson President. He is one of the most unfit men I know for such a place.

No way will I ever join that son-of-a-bitch. I looked it up. One out of every four presidents has died in office. I'm a gambling man, darling. This is the only chance I've got.

The President is an idiot.

If something awful happens to the President, we’ll get another President.

The presidency is an office for which none of us is great enough.

I’ve never felt that his private life was the way to judge him. We should judge a president by the way he performs as president.

No man who ever held the office of President would ever congratulate a friend on obtaining it.

I see more clearly than ever, and I thought I saw before, that congressional life is not the best introduction to the President's house. Great and fully equipped as the general [James Garfield] is, there are embarrassments growing out of his long and brilliant career in Congress, which Jackson and Lincoln, and Grant, and myself, escaped.