Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes

Jimmy Carter used to walk off the airplane carrying his own luggage. Do you remember that? I don't want my president carrying - I want the freaking Marines to be carrying his luggage, and they want to carry his luggage.

Michelle Obama is a major asset for the president.

Presidents are always also storytellers, purveyors of useful national mythologies. And surprisingly enough, Richard Nixon, this awkward man who didn't even really like people, had not been so bad at this duty - at least in the first four years of his presidency.

Both Kennedy and Obama exuded a dash of glamour in their roles as commander-in-chief and became the darlings of Hollywood. As president, each brought to the White House a fashionable and accomplished First Lady, two adorable young children and scene-stealing pets.

Theodore Roosevelt had drawn public attention to his attractive family in order to create a bond with ordinary Americans. Eleanor Roosevelt had successfully broached the idea that a First Lady could be nearly as much a public figure as her husband.

A President has to do the image stuff that will help him so that he can do the substantive things he wants to do.

You need a story, a scenario as First Lady.

I mean no snub but presidents don't usually march.

It would never do for the President to have guards with drawn sabers at his door, as if he fancied he were, or were trying to be, assuming to be, an Emperor.

Our presidents have been getting to be synthetic monsters, the work of a hundred ghost- writers and press agents so that it is getting harder and harder to discover the line between the man and the institution.

Potential presidents are measured against an ideal that’s a combination of leading man, God, father, hero, pope, king, with maybe just a touch of the avenging Furies thrown in.

It is so important – the setting in which the President is presented to the world.

Every successful president has suffered imputations that he has in sinister fashion charmed the press or used a new medium of communication (radio, television, the Internet) to claim an undeserved standing.

After the usual press conference and lunch …

Any man who has ever been honored by being made President of the United States is thereby forever after rendered the American people.

No, I think that if he had known he would be president, he would have started dying his hair, like, 10 years ago. Now it's too late.

Trump continues to diminish the office of the Presidency.

Obama and his staff's sheer disrespect for the presidency is probably causing the Gipper to spin in his grave.

I'll always respect that institution of the presidency, and I'll respect President Trump.

You'll see me just walk into the local Tesco. I don't feel I need to hide myself because there's no reason to. Okay, I play for Crystal Palace, but I'm still a normal human being.

White House staff spends enormous amounts of time planning a president's every move so that his public persona reflects the mood of the public.

The President can't go around in a steel box, as much as the Secret Service would like him to. Protection is an art form, keeping the President available to the public while protecting. Most of the hard protection is done by the police, the perimeter work.

I'm not used to doing press conferences, and I don't like giving interviews.

As soon as a regular guy like Bill Clinton becomes the president, he wears a mantle of greatness. He's the president.

For me, the fans missing me and wanting to see me on TV is very important, but the business end of it also has to be right.