Woodrow Wilson Quotes

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.

Don't get me wrong: I would love to be president.

It sure is hell to be president.

The nature of the Presidency is such that you are always asking yourself what else could you be doing?.

He's the president of the United States. He's got to work 14 to 16 hours a day, run foreign and domestic policy. If he's got time for mistresses after all that, what the hell difference does it make?

My fellow citizens, the American Presidency is not supposed to be a journey of personal discovery.

I remember. How many minutes do I have left President? About one, one minute.

There is a substantial difference between the President being able to wave to the crowd from a hospital window and being able to govern.

The office of the President is so staggeringly complicated that nobody can ... be a good President.

The presidency is not about easy choices.

As President, I have no eyes but constitutional eyes. I cannot see you.

All Presidents start out to run a crusade but after a couple of years they find they are running something less heroic and much more intractable: namely the presidency.

The best thing about being President is that it gets you out of American life. I don't know what the theory is behind this, but it is a fact. The first thing we do with a President is shunt him off to a siding where nothing American can ever happen to him.

The Presidency is not an office to be either solicited or declined.

The toughest part of being President is that you have to be available 24 hours a day, 365 days of the year.

Presidents live and work in a house of history. They dwell with ghosts. Present power and the weight of the past are ambient realities of daily life in the presidency, and the two are intimately connected.

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

Being president does seem a lot more stressful than being vice president.

American presidents get to make lots of choices, with one critical exception: what awaits them in the in-box on top of the desk in the Oval Office.

The office of President is a great one; to every true American it seems the greatest on earth. And to me, as I was engaged in weaving a background of music for the pageantry of it, there came a deeper realization of the effect of that office on the man.

I've never covered the president in any way other than that he is ultimately responsible.

It is always a delicate matter, when a friend or acquaintance becomes president.

Laura Bush is the same way. I mean, they both, um, understand, they understand the challenges of the moment and understand the responsibilities, he understands the responsibilities he has to protect the national security of America as well as the economic security of America.

To be President of the United States, sir, is to act as advocate for a blind, venomous, and ungrateful client.

Presidents grow up in the White House. The times shape the man.